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Personally, I think coffee
roasting machine should
be set by your senses
and experience.

gaining Experience machine should be set by your senses and her coffee journey. “I see how exhausted
experience.” Although it’s been 11 years my parents are. As a green bean supplier,
Since coffee has been around since Sirikorn began roasting, she always we have to take high risk while the profit
Sirikorn for all her life, she naturally believes there are new things to learn isn’t that great. I just want to maintain our
learnt to love its taste. She also ran a every day. “I feel that there are still lots to coffee farmers network my father gathered,
coffee kiosk during her university years learn. I didn’t attend any roasting course. and just supply our products to retail
and helps with the family’s restaurant. I just experiment and use my experience, stores.” For those who wish to become
However, she chose to walk the path of which might take longer to learn.” a coffee roaster, Sirikorn advices, “You
a roaster. “I’m always certain that coffee need to have the passion. You need to love
is my profession because my parents have A good Roaster coffee and eager to understand it. Some
always been selling coffee. Now they are Roasting a batch of coffee requires people don’t drink coffee but want to be in
aging, and I’m here to continue their a roasting machine and green beans, the business for the money. Most of these
legacy.” During the business crisis, but the heart of any roast is the roaster. people wouldn’t make it. From my expe-
Sirikorn took coffee knowledge more A good roaster should have the right rience, if you have the passion and love
seriously. She visited the Faculty of Argri- qualification and competency. A good drinking coffee, you’ll be likely to make it
culture, Chiang Mai University, to learn roaster has to be healthy, responsible, even if you don’t have tons of cash. If you
about coffee roasting, and attended and open hearted. “The first thing is you are thinking about buying a roasting
coffee seminars to bring the knowledge need to be physically healthy. I’ve trained machine, make sure you have learnt enough
back and experiment on them personally. many roasters, and some of them don’t details first.” If you are certain about
“I first visited the Faculty of Agriculture take care of themselves as much as they taking coffee roasting career and com-
to learn coffee roasting. I also got valuable should. Some drink alcohol and don’t get mitted to it, try to learn about it as much
advices from our green bean clients who enough sleep, and that affect the ability as you can before investing in a roasting
are roasters. They gave me the basics on to control the roast. Open up your heart, machine. But if money is not the issue,
coffee roasting and even shared their secret learn new things, be curious, and they will buying a machine to help you learn along
technique. I tried to follow their advices lead to better results. Repeating everything the way is also an interesting approach
and find more knowledge from different day in and day out is not the way it should to take.
sources as well,” Sirikorn shared her be. You need to raise a question for yourself
experience. and observe every step of your roast. Is
By the end of Sirikorn’s second there anything different today? Did the
university year, her father bought a coffee temperature change? Is the machine in the
roasting machine to get the hand-on same condition? What’s the weather like?
practice. “It’s a 10 kg Thai brand roasting All these questions will help you develop
machine, but it’s for our Robusta beans better technique.”
now. For our Arabica beans, we bought Know It Before you Do It
a new 30 kg custom made roasting machine.
Many people asked why we don’t use Sirikorn didn’t really plan her roas- Special Thanks
imported machines because they can be ter business through because she always Sirikorn Thatip
preset. Personally, I think coffee roasting has the ultimate goal ever since she started Doi Luang Coffee Roaster
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