As Many Coffee Roasters Know,

beans tumble around, 

break apart and are roasted unevenly as some of them come into contact with the hot surfaces of a conventional roaster, so how to achieve the perfect roast? Zero Gravity!, photograph by Alexas_Fotos/Pixabay

   a Dubai-based startup has its eyes set on literally taking coffee roasters to new heights by launching a space capsule full of coffee beans into space and use the heat generated by atmosphere re-entry to roast them, Anders Cavallini and Hatem Alkhafaji, the two founders of Space Roasters, believe that the absence of gravity could be the secret to roasting coffee perfectly, on Earth, but in zero-gravity conditions, beans would float freely in a heated oven, with heat being distributed evenly, resulting in a near-perfect roast, that’s just a theory, but they’re prepared to put it to the test by sending a capsule filled with 300kg of coffee beans to a height of 200km.

Cavallini and Alkhafaji presented the details of their space-roasting concept in a recent issue of the space journal Room, in an interview with The National, Hatem Alkhafaji said that a cup of coffee will cost several hundreds of dollars, “It’s going to cost around $200 (Dh735) to $400 (Dh1,470) per cup,” the Space Roasters co-founder said. “We know that’s super high for the average person, but there are a lot of people who would pay that much – it is basically the price it costs to make, with the ­margin. Realistically, the early cost of it would be around $200. But then we still want to reduce that, our aim is to bring the cost down all the way to between $40 (Dh147) and $50 (Dh184).” in the future Cavallini and Alkhafaji want to open a Space ­Station Cafe by next year, where people will be able to enjoy space-roasted coffee, it sounds great but I think for $40 - $50 a cup taking into account the amount I drink of it, I will stick to instant!