Roasted Seeds, Snacks & Coffee Alternatives

In the Pyrenees mountains, in Targasonne (Cerdagne), at 1700m above the sea level, Quentin Mercier and Caroline Penacq created Aurinko (meaning “Sun” in Finnish) with a Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster. To launch their activity, they organized a crowdfunding campaign. Since summer 2023, they specialized in solar roasted seeds that they are selling on local marketplaces and restaurants.
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Based in Normandy, with NeoLoco, Arnaud Crétot is the first solar bakery in Europe with 30% of bread production baked with solar. With roasting, the performances are much higher. Since 2019, Arnaud has been using Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster and then Lytefire Deluxe Big Oven + Roaster to bake nutritious sourdough bread, and to roast seeds and nuts to create fake coffee, muësli and energy bars. To start his activity, he has done a crowdfunding campaign. 4 people are working at NeoLoco, the bread is sold in 8 shops and the solar roasted goods in 80. Arnaud is an engineer at first and he has developped several tools supporting the energy transition.

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Since 2021, Lydiane et Manu are running Du Soleil et des Graines, their local activity in Bourg Argental. They have been among the very first to follow NeoLoco’s model in France. With their Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster, they are offering a great set of sweet and salted roasted seeds products. They also organize training days at their place.
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Michel Mouillé is using Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster to create a “fake” coffee based on local grains and beans in Vendée, West France. LUG, his micro-company, refers to the Celtic sun deity and it started in 2022 and stopped in 2024.
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Didier Ménard runs l’Atelier Bélénos in France, near Rennes. He is roasting seeds and creates energy bars wiht his Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster. His innovative spirit was awarded in 2023 with a local “Eco-Défis” (Eco-Challenges) from the Chambre des Métiers et de l’Artisanat.
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Biscuits, roasted seeds and “bean to bar” chocolate, this was Bruzhun (meaning “crumbs’’ in the Breton language) project with the Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster in 2023. For their chocolate, the team has been mastering the process in house from A to Z with no sugar added. They terminated in 2024 and resold their solar oven to Ekopratik.

Based in Normandy, in Pays de Bray, Céline Puech launched Solé B’Rayon in 2022 with a Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster. Céline has matured her project for a long time but she was very close to NeoLoco and the market turned out to not be enough in the end. She terminated the activity in 2024 and sold the solar oven to Manoir de Kerlotech for coffee experiment with Lobodis. She has selling roasted seeds, herbal salts, crumbs for deep fry recipes and also energy bars, all prepared with direct solar heat.
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Luc Fournaux is the manager of a touristic activity in South France. Motivated by his son, he purchased the very first industrial Lytefire Deluxe Oven + Roaster in 2021, convinced by the enormous potential of this type of equipment in his sunny region. With Le Comptoir d’Hélios, he sold his seeds to his outdoor activities customers as well as in farmers markets of the region. But running several activities simultaneously wasn’t an easy task, and after 2 years he took a different path, selling his Lytefire to Aurinko.
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