Hi CSrs,
I recently examined 4 differently branded poppers:
Breville, Crazy popper
Breville, Quick popper
Maison, from Aldi
B+D, Hot N Pop
Internally it looks to me like these 4 machines come from the one manufacturer.
Apart from visually the major difference between machines is the type of annoying fasteners they are assembled with, this may be due to year of manufacture or unknown patterns of component procurement.
It is my thought that the distributors (posing as manufacturers) would like us to believe there is differences between these units and brand loyalty should be determined by the various marketing departments and their advertising spend, or ? Thus saving the consumer from making real judgements on a scientific or fitness to function basis. After all there is less mental wear and tear if decisions are made on tribal or related brand loyalty basis.
My thought has a very good chance of being wrong.
Does anyone have possession of the facts? I would be interested.
On popper coffee roasting I have done a few roasts some months ago and am not current or authoritative (I am pretty much ignorant).
The poppers I have seen claim wattage of around 1200W give or take, from my Corretto experience this suggests that things being equal poppers draw enough power to comfortably roast 300 to 400 grams of green and at around 100g per roast a far too rapid roast.
Yet when it comes to machine selection higher power consumption is likely to be championed (after all bigger is better everyone knows).
Not that you could take much notice of the wattage recorded on the unit.
With so many Newbies using poppers as entry to coffee roasting I fancy some effort is warranted in sorting the wheat from the chaff, or am I the only one in the dark.
If anyone could shed some light for me I would appreciate it or perhaps you remember a useful thread you could refer me to.
Thanks
Lindsay
I recently examined 4 differently branded poppers:
Breville, Crazy popper
Breville, Quick popper
Maison, from Aldi
B+D, Hot N Pop
Internally it looks to me like these 4 machines come from the one manufacturer.
Apart from visually the major difference between machines is the type of annoying fasteners they are assembled with, this may be due to year of manufacture or unknown patterns of component procurement.
It is my thought that the distributors (posing as manufacturers) would like us to believe there is differences between these units and brand loyalty should be determined by the various marketing departments and their advertising spend, or ? Thus saving the consumer from making real judgements on a scientific or fitness to function basis. After all there is less mental wear and tear if decisions are made on tribal or related brand loyalty basis.
My thought has a very good chance of being wrong.
Does anyone have possession of the facts? I would be interested.
On popper coffee roasting I have done a few roasts some months ago and am not current or authoritative (I am pretty much ignorant).
The poppers I have seen claim wattage of around 1200W give or take, from my Corretto experience this suggests that things being equal poppers draw enough power to comfortably roast 300 to 400 grams of green and at around 100g per roast a far too rapid roast.
Yet when it comes to machine selection higher power consumption is likely to be championed (after all bigger is better everyone knows).
Not that you could take much notice of the wattage recorded on the unit.
With so many Newbies using poppers as entry to coffee roasting I fancy some effort is warranted in sorting the wheat from the chaff, or am I the only one in the dark.
If anyone could shed some light for me I would appreciate it or perhaps you remember a useful thread you could refer me to.
Thanks
Lindsay


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