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Makers of electric roasters pitch carbon cutting in coffee making

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News, Technology

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Roasting coffee beans was a market worth over $1 billion globally in 2022, according to Grand View Research, which projects that figure could double by 2030. Traditional roasters, powered by the fossil fuel natural gas, still dominate the market. These machines are big and bulky and kind of look like part of a train. But the makers of more compact electric roasters are piling into the business. And they have an edge, touting themselves as high-tech alternatives that are more environmentally friendly and cheaper to run than their old-school counterparts. The BBC’s Frey Lindsay has more on the story.

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The business of roasting coffee beans was a market worth over a billion dollars

1:07.8

globally in 2022. That's according to Grandview research which which projects that figure could double by 2030.

1:16.0

Traditional roasters powered by the fossil fuel natural gas still dominate the market.

1:22.0

These machines are big and bulky and kind of look like part of a train.

1:26.3

But the makers of more compact electric roasters are piling into the business and they have an edge.

1:33.1

They tout themselves as high-tech alternatives that are more environmentally friendly and cheaper

1:38.2

to run than their old school counterparts.

1:41.3

The BBC's Freelinsy has more.

1:44.0

Now what's going to happen is the bean itself,

1:50.0

temperature is going to go up, up, up, up, and we're going to bring this relative bean

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