How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

[NewToEspresso]

There has been much comment on the Behmor (too many for me to read them all) and given they have now been around for more than half a year, purely from the taste perspective, how does the Behmor compare to the corretto? Are they as good or better than using a corretto?

[bmawebb]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

Im hoping it compares well. Ones coming in the mail over the next few days. And 5kg of beans to roast like a fury!

[rival81]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

Interesting topic.

So far, I have stuck with coretto simply because i believe having a thermoprobe in the bean mass and direct control of heat is going to be more flexible and give better control (you dont have that on a behmor). However, the closed system of a behmor also has advantages over an open top coretto where you have to blow in air that is overheated to compensate for all the heat loss. Id be interested to play around with a behmor.

[gregpullman]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

My corretto has gone to the big roastery in the sky so I cant comment on the flavour side of things, but on paper the corretto should give you a lot more control than a Behmor, which translates to more control over how it tastes.

The Behmor has five built-in profiles, the shape of which cant be changed and most of them dont suit the way most of us tend to roast (all bar one spend the last 1/3 of the roast on 100% power). If you want to roast a larger capacity the roast time gets dragged out, rather than the heater power increasing to compensate for the larger load. With a corretto you can add as much or as little heat as you want, when you want, to get the result you want. Cooling a 250g roast in the Behmor takes 10 minutes as its an internal cooling process, and if you think youre going to be smart and cool externally then kiss goodbye to your warranty as the manual expressly warns against it. With a corretto you can easily decant the beans into an external cooler. A corretto with a bean mass probe will give you an accurate indication of temperature; the Behmor doesnt come with any temperature read-out at all, not even an environmental temperature (the display just shows the time remaining).

Thereve been a number of rather illogical assumptions made about the Behmor simply because of its price and rated capacity. My view on having used one for a number of months is that its an unbeatable device at its price point (at $400 it has no equal), but like everything you get what you pay for.

So my advice would be to stick with the corretto if you want control over whats in the cup.

Greg

P.S. As a disclaimer it should be noted that I am the manager of a business that imports Hottop roasters. However the facts stated above have no relation to Hottop products per se, and are easily verifiable as being accurate by any independent source.

[maheel]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

downside i have not solved with the corretto is the chaff issue, they are a bit messy....

i have got some ideas but have not tried them properly as yet

have never tried a behmor (or seen one in the flesh) but like the idea of one but see the cooling issue as a downside

[gregpullman]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

It does deal with chaff better than a corretto. You can open the door on the Behmor to speed up the cooling process but this empties a fair portion of the contents of the chaff collector throughout the roaster, over the roasting surface and possibly the operator (in corretto fashion!). So its fast(er) cooling or cleaner roast.

It should be stated that the door open trick is really a hack and while they do say you can do it in the manual its obviously not the way the units been originally designed to be used, so I wouldnt knock it (or any device) for doing a less than ideal job when used other than how it was designed.

[Dimal]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

However, the closed system of a behmor also has advantages over an open top coretto where you have to blow in air that is overheated to compensate for all the heat loss.

You can, of course, fully enclose the Correttos BM component, as many CSers have done and via the use of an electronic control Heatgun, it is possible to control the roast profile within a degree or two of where you want it to be.

I guess not all BMs lend themselves to doing this easily but with my particular Breville Big Loaf, it was relatively straight forward. It would even be possible to devise a simple chaff collector too and I might do that sometime into the future.

For now though, Im very happy with my particular Corretto.... 8-)

Mal.

[matth3wh]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

Ive been wondering about this topic too... so thanks for all the pluses and minuses... interested in getting the Behmor along side Coretto to increase roasting output.

You can, of course, fully enclose the Correttos BM component, as many CSers have done and via the use of an electronic control Heatgun, it is possible to control the roast profile within a degree or two of where you want it to be.

Whats Behmor airflow like ?
Ive tried a dodgy covering of the top of the breadmaker with foil and a few holes. So far I like the way the chaff vents out smaller holes making vacuum cleanup easier. Which I guess leads to the less mess vs more bitsnpieces of the Behmor vs. Coretto (or course acknowledging those who have combined everything in to one neat trolley Coretto package)

[>pullman]

Re: How does the Behmor compare to the Corretto?

I dont think it has any Matty, apart from convection (heat rises and escapes and draws a small amount of cool air in from somewhere). The Behmor does a better job at chaff than the corretto, and it beats the Hottop in that regard too as the Behmors drum is mesh while the Hottops is perforated stainless steel plate which tends to retain chaff a bit more. On that count the Gene Cafe is the hands-down winner, its chaff collection is one of its real stand-out pluses.