The wet parchment beans are moved in huge bulk lots from the processing mill, to drying pans. These pans are large, flat and generally concrete based, to ensure that no soil moisture travels up into the beans. On small drying pans or where mechanization is not affordable, plantation workers use wooden rakes to spread and turn the wet parchment beans, continually turning them over for an evenly dried outcome.

Larger plantation companies utilise large drying pan areas and use graders and front end loaders to spread the heavy wet beans, to an even depth across the drying pan surface.