Well, Ive been hanging around here for quite some time now, but up until today what little roasting Ive taken part in has been exclusively at First Pour. Having seen the KKTO though, Id finally found inspiration to build my own roaster.
I picked up a cookwell TO & a pasta pot set from homeart, a few odds & sods from bunnings & set about construction. Shes still a work in progress (I need to make a proper base for her, but got by today with some very shoddy carpentry), but I thought Id post up the results of my first roast. This was the Ethiopian Gambella Sundried (I bought a few kilo to experiment with)
It took about 11 minutes to reach first crack, before the start of second at 18 when I pulled it. Cooling was a messy affair pouring from bowl to colander and back for a few minutes, but I wanted to prove to myself that the roaster was working before spending more on a more advanced cooling solution (I dont have a fan in the house at the moment).
Anyway, heres some of shots of the roast (looks like about a CS9-10), of the chaff collected and of my agitator (which seemed to work really well paired with a 70RPM motor from Jaycar... although I need to add a DC motor speed control into the next stage of the build to slow it down a touch).



I picked up a cookwell TO & a pasta pot set from homeart, a few odds & sods from bunnings & set about construction. Shes still a work in progress (I need to make a proper base for her, but got by today with some very shoddy carpentry), but I thought Id post up the results of my first roast. This was the Ethiopian Gambella Sundried (I bought a few kilo to experiment with)
It took about 11 minutes to reach first crack, before the start of second at 18 when I pulled it. Cooling was a messy affair pouring from bowl to colander and back for a few minutes, but I wanted to prove to myself that the roaster was working before spending more on a more advanced cooling solution (I dont have a fan in the house at the moment).
Anyway, heres some of shots of the roast (looks like about a CS9-10), of the chaff collected and of my agitator (which seemed to work really well paired with a 70RPM motor from Jaycar... although I need to add a DC motor speed control into the next stage of the build to slow it down a touch).




Ive got to say, this is one of the simplest & tastiest things Ive ever done at home.
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