Coffee Bean Roaster

Object Title:  Kitchen Equipment

Object Name: Coffee Bean Roaster

Description

Handle that clips together and two half sections of round metal that close together at one end

Size (in mm)

Handle 685 mm L; Ball 120 mm W

Parts

Handle, metal sphere that opens into two halves

Collection

No (item in personal custody of owner)

Colour

Dark brown

Materials

Iron

Maker

Not Known

Inscriptions

Nil

Method of manufacture

Not Known

Contents

Nil

Use

Used to roast coffee beans – put beans in the ball, close it, put it over the fire, turning it, keep opening to check if cooked enough and then empty it out and can then grind the coffee

History

Mistica Rosa Scapin (Rina’s Mother) brought it with her in 1929; Rina’s mum used it at home

Date

• Made:  Not Known
• Donated:  No
• Recorded (for register):  18 January 2004

Associated information

Couldn’t buy good coffee in Wollongong and particularly not the espresso coffee drank in Italy, so brought the coffee bean roaster over when family joined Giacomo Filippi in Wollongong in 1929

Item number

N/A

Cataloguer

Eva Castle

Current location

Personal collection, Rina Montgomery (nee Filippi) Bulli NSW

Photographs of item and/or item in use, or owner holding item