Story: Food and beverage manufacturing

Coffee roaster

Coffee roaster

Coffee beans roast at Fuel's coffee roaster in Wellington. Coffee beans are imported green in sacks. They are then roasted in specialised machines. Here, metal arms mix the beans with air to cool them down, so the roasting process is halted.

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Sarah Wilcox, 'Food and beverage manufacturing - Tea and coffee', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/23008/coffee-roaster (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 11 Mar 2010