Well, my Gene Cafe finally arrived in Adelaide yesterday after the first order went to Perth!
I got some hints from Mark Barun (The Coffee Barun) after he checked it all out--great service Mark!
Unpacking was quite exciting, there are foam protectors everywhere outside and inside the machine. Its quite a bit bigger than I expected, but not huge. I set it up under the exhaust fan on a board on top of the stove.
I decided to try some Rwandan as my first go, so I weighed out 250 grams of green beans, poured them into the roaster bin, put the bin into the machine and turned it on. Set the timer for 18 minutes, the temperature for 230°C and pressed go.
First crack was easy to hear at 11 minutes, despite the exhaust fan running. It would have been easier to hear without the exhaust fan--except I couldnt hear anything over the smoke alarm!
Second crack started at 18 minutes and I pushed stop and started the cool-down.
10 minutes later it was all done and I poured the now only warmish beans into a bowl and took the following pic.
I couldnt wait to try the coffee
so at roast plus 2 hours I had my first cup. I tasted quite good--no obvious burnt flavour or anything else wrong--Ill try again on Thursday.
This was the easiest roast Ive ever done, and I can see that the Buy Green button is going to get a workout, as well as scrounging further green from Mark.
Greg

I got some hints from Mark Barun (The Coffee Barun) after he checked it all out--great service Mark!
Unpacking was quite exciting, there are foam protectors everywhere outside and inside the machine. Its quite a bit bigger than I expected, but not huge. I set it up under the exhaust fan on a board on top of the stove.
I decided to try some Rwandan as my first go, so I weighed out 250 grams of green beans, poured them into the roaster bin, put the bin into the machine and turned it on. Set the timer for 18 minutes, the temperature for 230°C and pressed go.
First crack was easy to hear at 11 minutes, despite the exhaust fan running. It would have been easier to hear without the exhaust fan--except I couldnt hear anything over the smoke alarm!
Second crack started at 18 minutes and I pushed stop and started the cool-down.
10 minutes later it was all done and I poured the now only warmish beans into a bowl and took the following pic.
I couldnt wait to try the coffee
so at roast plus 2 hours I had my first cup. I tasted quite good--no obvious burnt flavour or anything else wrong--Ill try again on Thursday.This was the easiest roast Ive ever done, and I can see that the Buy Green button is going to get a workout, as well as scrounging further green from Mark.
Greg


There was a hint of toast so I decided to go for 1 shade lighter next roast.
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