Home appliance stores could soon be stocking a new Must Have item for the middle class family that boasts everything, a home coffee roaster. Home roasting your own freshly purchased green beans has emerged as the latest coffee phenomenon in well-healed sections of the United States West and East coasts.

Currently the do-it-yourselfers are using such innovative equipment as popcorn machines to transform raw, green beans into ready to roast aromatic gems. As soon as Cuisinart catch on and get the first purpose made home roaster on the market, self roasted coffee will become an essential aspect of middle class urban lifestyles from Glasgow to Dunedin.

An American expert in suburban kitchen status, Joseph Shuldiner, founder of the pretentiously named Institute of Domestic Technology, told the Los Angeles Times that home roasting, "...is about food crafting, about making your own food, making your own ingredients and learning how ingredients are made. We're so used to buying coffee beans, one rarely thinks about where they come from and how are they roasted."

With Joseph's help, one will soon know precisely how.