Guide

Ask any roaster about their first machine, and you'll hear a familiar story. They outgrew it. Driftaway Coffee started on a home roaster that held 8 to 9 ounces per...

Selling one roaster is a single listing. Selling a whole roastery is a project with a dozen moving parts. There's the roaster, plus the afterburner sized to it. There's the...

A used roaster's paperwork tells you more than its photos ever will. The problem is that most buyers get a folder of invoices, a few handwritten log pages, and a...

Scroll through any page of roaster listings, and you'll see three labels over and over: used, refurbished, and never used. They sound close. They aren't. Each one tells you something...

A used coffee roaster can save you a huge amount over buying new, but the machine's price tag is only half the story. Before you wire a deposit or schedule...

The listing price on a used commercial coffee roaster is not what it costs to get that roaster roasting in your space. Freight, rigging, gas and electrical work, venting, and...

A used commercial coffee roaster looks like an easy win on paper. You pay a fraction of the new price and start roasting within weeks. But the sticker price is...

A fluid bed roaster is unlike most of the equipment found in cafés. Rather than employing a spinning drum, it heats the beans using hot air. This difference affects the...

Finding a used coffee roaster is only half the job. The harder part is figuring out where to buy a used coffee roaster from a seller you can trust, at...