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How to Cool Roasted Coffee Beans After the Drop

Build a repeatable post-drop cooling record using time, bean depth and end temperature.

Size a cooling tray by real roasted batch mass and bed depth rather than the largest number on a listing.

Keep the screen, fan path and collection area inspectable without contaminating roasted coffee.

A ceramic-white tray with a fan in the base, for cooling a 360 g home roast dump on a UK worktop.

How a cooling tray sits next to a UK home roaster: downward airflow, two 304 sieves, and a 360 g dump.

Why beans keep cooking after the drop, and how a fan in the base plus two sieves cools a home roast dump.

What a coffee bean cooler does in a UK kitchen: air pulled down through the beans, chaff caught below, 360 g batch.