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June 10, 2025
Meet the Roastar Forming Shoe
Introducing the latest addition to the Roastar family.
Your New Favorite Tool
Filling coffee bags is nobody’s favorite pastime. When you're elbow-deep in beans, trying to get a gusset bag to cooperate with one hand while holding a scoop in the other, it's easy to wonder: isn’t there a better way to do this?
Answer: There is. And we just made it.
Introducing the Roastar Forming Shoe
As much as we’d love to claim an original idea here, this tool is actually well-established in the roasting space.
A forming shoe is designed to do one thing really well: Help your coffee bags stand up straight and stay open. This allows you to fill them quickly, evenly, and without a mess.
Our forming shoe is made from corrosion-resistant aerospace aluminum. It comes with interchangeable pucks for different bag sizes (from your 8 oz cuties to your 5 lb big boys), and helps you avoid the "stuff beans in with a wooden spoon and pray" method.
Designed for Roasters by People Who Get It
Most small-batch roasters are doing things by hand. You're not running a factory floor—you’re running a passion-project-turned-business. You’re creative and resourceful, turning to things like potato mashers to prep your bags. And that might be working…sort of. But what if you could level up your efficiency game?
The Roastar Forming Shoe is specifically designed to work with the bags you’re already using—gusset bags, flat bottom bags, stand-up pouches—and to make your process smoother, faster, and, dare we say, more enjoyable.
This isn’t just some repurposed hardware store parts. We went through rounds of research, development, and testing to make sure the forming shoe fits a wide range of bag sizes and types, and that it met our standards for usability and food safety.
Existing options on the market today are limited, and most are made of wood. In other words, they’re not FDA-approved. Our forming shoe is made corrosion-resistant aerospace aluminum, so if being food-safe is on your radar (it should be), this is a serious upgrade.
The bottom line, though? Our customers asked for this—and we’re delivering.
Here’s What You Get (and Why You’ll Love It)
One sleek, sturdy forming shoe that’s easy to clean and built to last.
Three interchangeable pucks: one for 8–16 oz bags, one extender for 2–5 lb bags, and a third to make switching sizes a breeze.
A game-changing upgrade from potato mashers, plastic cups, and other kitchen-drawer improvisations.
More fillable space, better shelf appeal, and less “massaging” your bags into shape after the fact.
By using the right tool for the job, your bags will look good, fill easily, and stand up like they’re supposed to.
Why it Matters
Like most things in life, good packaging isn’t just about what’s on the outside. It’s about how your product is packed, stored, displayed, and experienced. The forming shoe helps you start strong from the moment your bags are filled, so your product looks as premium as it tastes.
Ready to Upgrade Your Setup?
The Roastar Forming Shoe is now available for $99 (plus shipping), and it weighs just 3.6 lbs—light enough to move around your shop, but heavy enough to stay put when you need it to.
Whether you’re a weekend roaster or a full-time coffeepreneur, this is one of those tools you didn’t know you needed until you try it. You’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
Order now to take your packaging game to the next level.