Fluid bed roaster

[acoggins]

Re: Fluid bed roaster

Personal preference of course, but I would be more wowed by your typical commercial roaster, that actually looks like a coffee roaster.

This thing instead looks like it should be in some labaratory somewhere.

[Dimal]

Re: Fluid bed roaster

As you can see from this selection of roasters by Probat, theres more than one way to roast a bean, even in a commercial environment...

Mal.

[beanflying]

Re: Fluid bed roaster

Interesting link the Probat Saturn looks functionally like the one up the top?

[Fresh_Coffee]

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Throwing some numbers at the $30k and if you work on $30/kg for Brown retail and give the Roaster 10% or $3/kg of that only 1000kg needed for payback. 20kg/week for a year and it is yours for free

Still a 20k+ premium for  8-) on a 1kg roaster is a bit much.

Unfortunately the above equation does not take in consideration the "real cost" of running a business....

In any case the issue is, that very few small coffee roasting machines replicate what a good commercial sized roasting machine does.  Take a look at the price of a Probat or Brambati sample roaster....you will pay in excess of $AUS10,000.00 for machines that roast no more than 300 grams.

It is the same in every industry, if you want "quality" you have to pay for it.

Regardz,
Attilio, confirmed high end european roasting machine supporter and
first / original CS site sponsor.

[luca]

Re: Fluid bed roaster

Had a chat with the master roaster and informed me that this is their primary roaster doing 1kg batches at a time. The setup allowed him to tweak the roast profile very accurately and repetitively, I was also told. Having never come across anything like this before I was very impressed and so drawn to it, WOW, very high tech!

Just an aside; what makes this guy a master roaster? Does he have an apprentice?

what do you think? I wonder how a similar setup could be created for home use.....

You need the ability to regulate airflow + heat to the airflow. Home roasters have achieved both of these things by split-wiring the fan and element on a popcorn popper and then rigging up the thing with various controllers - dimmer switch, PID, etc.

Cheers,

Luca

[L_pena]

Re: Fluid bed roaster

Not sure what makes this guy a "master" roaster, one of the other staff referred to him as this.. so i was too.

Looks like a the gene cafe roaster maybe a sensible and affordable option though.
Rancho.