The Roest P3000 roaster. All images courtesy of Roest.
Norwegian coffee roasting equipment maker Roest is now taking pre-orders for its long-anticipated 3-kilo-capacity production roasting machine called P3000.
Priced at €32,900 EUR ($35,486 USD as of this writing), the P3000 will be limited to 100 units in 2025, with 50 of those already claimed. Additional pre-orders will begin shipping in 2026.
The fully automated convection roasting machine represents the second major all-new model release for Roest, which launched sales of its first 100-gram capacity model — designed primarily for sample roasting — eight years ago.
The P3000 features Roest’s automatic first crack detection features, as well as an internal camera system that tracks and transmits the changing color and size of the beans as roasts progress.
More than 15 additional sensors inside the machine gather temperature and airflow data. All of this information is digested by a proprietary AI algorithm designed to automatically adapt and execute roast profiles. Between-batch resets allow for back-to-back roasting efficiency.
“We’ve spent the past several years perfecting the P3000, bringing everything we’ve learned from our award-winning sample roasters into the world of production roasting,” Roest CEO Trond Simonsen said in an announcement of the launch today. “We call it the ultimate overachiever because it’s not just a roaster; it’s a precision tool that empowers businesses to roast smarter, faster and with unparalleled consistency.”
No tools are required to access interior components for cleaning and maintenance. After assembly in Roest’s headquarters in Norway, the P3000 unit stands 31.8 inches tall, 17.5 inches wide and 37.5 inches deep. The company describes the footprint as comparable to a 2-group commercial espresso machine.
The P3000 arrives roughly two years after Roest’s previous hardware rollout, the L100 model sample roaster. That machine featured upgrades for compatibility with the Roest’s online platform that provides data storage, profile automation features and real-time graphical views of roasts.
The P3000 machine joins a growing field of small-batch electric roasters that are similarly big on automation. The P3000 lands as a higher-capacity alternative to the 1.5-kilo-capacity Bellwether Shop Roaster and the 1.2-kilo-capacity Aillio Bullet R2 Pro machines, which both came out last year. Swiss startup Mikafi revealed the web-intensive 1.25-kilo-capacity MikafiOne roaster in late 2023. A fully automated 2-kilo-capacity countertop production roaster called the AiO, by Bullet roaster maker Aillio, remains in development.
Founded in Oslo in 2014, Roest has since launched three versions of its original machine, including the L100 that was awarded a Best New Product award at SCA Expo in Boston in 2022.
That same year the company revealed its framework for a 2-kilo prosumer design called the P2000 that it reintroduced one year later as the P3000. Roest brought a working prototype P3000 to show off at the SCA Expo in Chicago last year. Following a period of refinement and beta testing by roasters at Norwegian companies such as Tim Wendelboe and Hibi Kaffe, the final production version will be on display at Roest’s booth at the 2025 SCA Expo in Houston next month.
Lauren Alkire, Roest’s interim head of marketing, told Daily Coffee News the company also plans on releasing an accompanying electric afterburner later this year.
“We are looking very much forward to showing the final product,” Alkire told DCN. “We will have offsite roasting sessions [during SCA in Houston] for those interested.”
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Howard Bryman
Howard Bryman is the associate editor of Daily Coffee News by Roast Magazine. He is based in Portland, Oregon.
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