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  • #16
    Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

    Yep, that certainly gets full marks for dodgyness and also for thinking outside of the square

    Steve

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    • #17
      Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

      Originally posted by 64796B760C0 link=1309152829/14#14 date=1309312364
      hopefully the heat adjustment function will be enough to control it

      Have you considered putting the breadmaker on a car jack? Then you could raise and lower it as required ;D

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      • #18
        Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

        Mmmm, I can see an unintended Rube Goldberg event here ;D.

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        • #19
          Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

          Ok, total failure.

          I was aiming around 200c to first crack at around 10ish mins, but I got cracking at 5 mins.

          Then at 10 mins the break-maker went into overheat operational failure and stopped operating. (apparently happens when it goes about 40c (wherever the internal sensor is

          Do I just bypass most of the internals so all it does is spin? It would also go into intermittent spin occasionally which I think caused burning.

          hellllppp

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          • #20
            Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

            Shouldnt there be a parrot there somewhere? ;D

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            • #21
              Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

              After much screwing around, my machine is fixed It now just runs 240v, everything else bypassed

              Now Ill just do some careful research on how to do a good roast and try again

              hugz

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              • #22
                Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

                Fine ladies and gentlemen of CS, I have just enjoyed my first few cups of coffee from my home roast.

                I used this spreadsheet as a temperature guide:
                http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1228795908

                I had already burnt 2 roasts to a crisp so I erred on the side of caution this time and pulled it probably a minute early. My lovely roasting partner (girlfriend) was having trouble keeping the temp stable and had the temp a bit low for a while, so it came out a bit light. Im still counting it as a major success Roast #2 today.

                I had all number of problems. First overheated the machine (as mentioned above), sigh, burnt roast.

                then spent about a day wiring it direct.
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                Then the basket was rattling itself loose and the paddle stopped turning. Sigh, burnt roast.

                and when securing it, I managed to kill the machine (turned out I was using the wrong screws, so the screws were working their way into the wiring.

                Fixed that and did a roast.. but the paddle stopped turning half way. It seems that the Bakelite bit of the paddle that connects to the D-shaft had MELTED. Sigh. Burnt roast.

                Bought an aluminium D-shaft bracket which now has a mechano paddle attached. I might make a better paddle someday, but it actually works better than the original one.

                Did a roast, but being my first proper roast I had NO IDEA when to stop. We couldnt hear second-crack so we just kept going until we could. We never heard it so eventually the garage was filled with smoke and I had a bowl of charcoal. I did some reading and learned that second crack can be hard to hear on a corretto.


                Since my first current roast is a bit underdone it tastes suitably acidic.
                /\/Next roast- today!


                hugz

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                • #23
                  Re: Whats a good safe bean to learn roasting on?

                  Sounds a lot like my first roasting efforts.

                  Worth the perseverence though, when everything gets sorted and your drinking great coffee.

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