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RE: Coffee Tasting - Home-roasted Guatemala Xinabajul Familia Villatoro
This is great timing - both my cousin and sibling recently started roasting their own beans. My cousin uses an airpop popcorn maker which gets a very uneven roast unfortunately and my sibling uses something designed for the task but not entirely better. The results for them have been less than satisfying, although you seem to be fairing better. I imagine it might be a greater attention to detail resultant from your background in the sciences.
You might suggest that they reduce the mass of beans that they are trying to roast. Most of the home roasting appliances are somewhat under-powered which makes it hard to get good results.
The other option is switching to the Whirly Pop on a propane camping stove. The cost of the equipment in that case is very low, especially compared to some of the expensive counter top appliances. I roasted hundreds of pounds of beans in the Whirly Pop and had just a few failures.