MCR500
- • 500 GRAM (1.1 POUND) BATCH CAPACITY
- • CSA® DESIGN CERTIFIED
- • HEAVY COMMERCIAL BUILD
Photo by Koyanagi Coffee in Shimogarako, Saitama, Japan







The Mill City Roasters® 500 gram sample roaster is designed for highly efficient green coffee sample roasts as well as exploratory small-batch profile design as a starting point for production roast profile planning.
The MCR500 is a professional commercial coffee roaster with the same plate steel weldment construction and double-walled drums as our larger and more expensive models.
This model is RoastPATH® connectable with an integrated USB port that passes BT, ET, and DT thermocouple readings along with input changes in fan speed and resultant digital drum pressure. The roaster is equipped with variable drum speed for optimal roasting from batch sizes from 100 to 600 grams. Control on this machine is via hand adjustments of the gas input and power input for the fan and drum speed.
The 500g is available in an NSF certified configuration.
- Roaster with integrated cooling tray & chaff collector
- Thermocouples measuring BT, ET, and DT
- Digital drum pressure gauge
- Pre-delivery support from our design team including space planning review, venting specification & project advice
- Set-up call: 1-on-1 video call with our Support Team to review your installation before passing you on to a 1-on-1 video call with our Roastery Team to complete your first seasoning roast
- Warranty
- Choose from three optional layouts using our Quick-Connect kits to arrange components and exhuast -or- request a custom layout
- Optional UL® NSF (National Food Safety) package.
Next available: April - Reserve today!
Professional Greens Sampling
Learn about our in-house sample roasting protocol and five mistakes to avoid in your sampling practice. If you’re roasting a lot of samples, which we occasionally are, and you want to minimize variance in the roast, it’s best to find a set of roaster inputs that can remain static. This means that you won’t have to make any adjustments during the roasting process, so it’s less likely you’ll miss a fuel or an air change. We worked to find the settings which would allow us to reach our target roast color in the recommended amount of time.
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