improvised roasting drum

[idolwolf]

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has ever improvised a small roasting drum. I have an old breville pronto rotisserie oven that I want to use for roasting. I dont want to invest much money into this new hobby until I know Ill do it regularly, so this seems like a good solution at this time. Does anyone have any ideas about how I should build the drum or what materials to use? The oven is pretty large for a toaster oven, but much smaller than a standard kitchen oven. However, I wouldnt need the drum to hold more than 200-400 grams of coffee, so Im thinking something roughly the size of 1.5-2 litres.

Any suggestions?
Thanks!

[Koffee_Kosmo]

Re: improvised roasting drum

It could be easier to buy a drum from a Behmor

Check the measurements and also see if drums are sold separately

KK

[WSullivan]

Re: improvised roasting drum

behmor drum - 262mm long X 128mm diameter = ~3.4lt (if my calculations are correct.... :

[idolwolf]

Re: improvised roasting drum

Hmm that doesnt seem too much bigger than a chicken...it should work. Ill send an e-mail to the website today and see what they say. If they cant supply me with one, would it be difficult to make one? Im guessing it isnt anything more than training a wire mesh around a circular rings to create a cylinder...or is it more complicated than that? Like I said I dont know the first thing about roasting!
Thanks!

[WSullivan]

Re: improvised roasting drum

You can buy them separately, i saw one in the US last night for $20 plus delivery.......ill see if i can find the site tonight.....

[beanflying]

Re: improvised roasting drum

When I was looking at doing mine I was going to use the actual rotisserie spikes to be the main parts of the trial drum. A visit to your local catering suppliers for bits like small cake tins or molds etc for the ends, any sort of shallow dish with straight sides will do.

Drill a few holes for the spikes and main shaft to go past them. Find some S/Steel mesh from a shop (try companies that make industrial filters). Wrap the mesh around the end plates and fasten with screws and flat washers or pop rivets if you have them, then make a hatch so you can get the beans out.

Internal stirring vanes would be nice too if you can arrange them. Simple way to do these is a bit of L shaped aluminium on a bit of an angle inside the drum.

I still have some doubts as to if you can get the heat to come up in time with just the top 2 elements so you will really need to get everything as well preheated as you can before adding the beans (good gloves ) to keep it under 20 minutes if you can.

Look up Sweet Marias home roasting section on the net for some other ideas but below is a few pics I lifted from there

[jkarlis]

Re: improvised roasting drum

I was thinking about making larger drum for a BBQ roaster. First I got a quote from a steel fabricator to make me one, I think it was ~$150. Cant remember the exact dimensions but would have been enough to roast 1kg.

Was going to use a similar approach to what BF suggested when I ended up buying a pre-made Corretto from a CS member. Just as well as I dont think I would have ever got around to it.

If you contact metal fabricators or steel suppliers you should be able to track down some suitable stainless steel product. You can either use steel mesh or perforated steel sheets (which is what BFs looks like). At a guess you would want the holes to be around 2-3mm in size. I was planning to hold mine together with pop rivets.

[beanflying]

Re: improvised roasting drum

Not mine BTW For better visibility of the roast in progress I would go mesh rather than perforated. The Perf one just has a good simple hinged bean dump

[vinaya]

Re: improvised roasting drum

great thanks...Ill keep it in mind.


mod edit. URL deleted- please read and abide by site posting policy. Spam links to commercial sites are not welcome here- especially from newbies  > >