Behmor

[mipl]

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Hey, I have ordered one today. Very exited!

[phrostyboi]

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Have done another roast a couple of days ago of some PNG Wahgi, 1/2 pound on P2 / B turned out nice, just into SC while cooling

couple of days later it tastes a bit flat - not sure if its not rested enough or if theres a better profile to use for this one? Roast is nice and even

And the simple green cleaner (getting it from Bunnings appears to be the stuff), is the one you use the concentrate in the spray bottle and does it need to be diluted to use on the behmor?

[Luke_G]

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Have done another roast a couple of days ago of some PNG Wahgi, 1/2 pound on P2 / B turned out nice, just into second crack while cooling

couple of days later it tastes a bit flat - not sure if its not rested enough or if theres a better profile to use for this one? Roast is nice and even

I was beginning to think it was just my Behmor that had these traits phrostyboi?

I have put my Behmor on the backburner for now as i can only manage 1 in 10 good roasts.
Its probably not the roasters fault but my own. Im just so used to the product the Hottop can give that i find myself comparing the two and then returning to the Hottop.

Anyone else find this?...

[crazyroaster]

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I found my roasts with the Behmor tasted quite flat until I started accelerating the cooling by opening the door and blowing a fan into the unit.  The beans are cool to touch within two to three minutes, and my roasts have tasted pretty good since (although I dont have a hottop to compare).

This thread is really good for reading/posting about roasts on the Behmor:

http://coffeesnobs.com.au/YaBB.pl?num=1262756782/106

[Lovey]

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My latest acquisition arrived today. Murphys law strikes again as it was delivered during the 15 minutes that I actually left the house this morning :.
I did the dry burn as recommended, and I can only imagine what flavours would be imparted on the bean during the first roast if this step wasnt done.
It would give a new definition to having oily beans (think WD 40 smell) :P.
I can sense a roast coming on tomorrow to give it a test run 8-).

[Andy]

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I did the dry burn as recommended, and I can only imagine what flavours would be imparted on the bean during the first roast if this step wasnt done.

Ohhh yeah, SUPER stinky. Im still waiting for the first person here to ignore that step and then post their "tasting notes" on their first roast.

I can sense a roast coming on tomorrow

Thats some serious will power Lovey!

[Lovey]

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Thats some serious will power Lovey!

It comes with the Jedi training ;D.
On a more serious note, the instructions say not to use an extension cord. The problem I have is that I dont have any power points outside and I think Mrs Lovey would be none too happy with me doing a roast inside just yet (I dont know how much smoke this thing will put out yet). If a suitably rated extension cord were to be used, would there be any real problems?
Thanks,
Steve.

[Andy]

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The instructions say lots of things that some people will ignore.

In the age of litigation no one is game to say anything that might be used against them (eg: Coffee cups with "caution contents hot") so dont expect any different here.

I can offer my own opinion and that is that if I had the same issue as you I would use a reasonable length extension cord. I would use a high quality 10amp rated one and if the roaster had trouble getting up to temerature I would prob put a multimeter across the cord it to see what the voltage drop was. At that point I would determine if I wanted to run the roaster at 230V or 240V.

...but I in no way recommend anyone actually try this. You would be silly to ignore what it says in the manual and it would certainly void your warrantee.

[cksyd]

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If a suitably rated extension cord were to be used, would there be any real problems?
Thanks,
Steve.

Hey Steve,

I have one from the first shipment and have been using it with an extension cord from day five. Using a proper cord I have seen no difference from having it camped on the powerpoint; literally seeing first crack at exactly the same time.

It is a suitably rated 10 amp outdoor thick bugger, 5 metres long. I wouldnt go any longer than that.

The caution I assume is for other markets such as USA which runs on 110v and suffers really bad power drops at times, hence the warning. Go Ogle and you will find heaps of commentary regarding this from the place we keep the Americans, but it really shows we live in the lucky country... the thing works fine.

I havent tried and wouldnt try longer than 5m, but your call.

Hope this helps

Chris

[kofeyh]

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First post (long time lurker) and on to 3rd roast (second roast was a bit light).

225g Peru Ceja de Selva Estate @ 1/2 P2 B +.

- First crack around 3:00 left on the clock.
- rolling crack around 2:15
- second around the 60 second mark
- hit eject about ~10 seconds later (wanted to hit second crack *before* cooling kicked in)

There was a tiny bit of smoke, was waiting for it and had finger on stop button just in case - but I did want to see if I could do a darkish roast.. indeed the Behmor is great with smoke management, with just a tiny amount escaping as second crack kicked in.

I wont be doing roasts this dark all the time.. but its good to know the Behmor can handle it.

[Gra]

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There was a tiny bit of smoke, was waiting for it and had finger on stop button just in case - but I did want to see if I could do a darkish roast.. indeed the Behmor is great with smoke management, with just a tiny amount escaping as second crack kicked in.

I wont be doing roasts this dark all the time.. but its good to know the Behmor can handle it.

Great little roaster the Behmor you should enjoy Peru after resting they are a very nice bean, Your on the wright track with your observations they are starting to show the signs of topping just a tad to long before cooling should still taste yummy Good on ya

Gra..

[kofeyh]

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Yeah, bit too long. This was very much a "force into second crack to observe results" kind of roast. Itll be an interesting roast to taste.

Next dark roast I do, will know when to eject (~10 seconds earlier, so second crack starts as I mash the stop button) having the extra time on the clock to begin with will allow a bit of variability between roasts, ambient temperature and such.

Popping the door ~2:30 into the cooling cycle really helps bring temp down; may cycle a bit of air through after next roast to improve heat dissipation.

[Lovey]

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1st attempt today, 225g El Salvador AA. Set the unit to 1/2, /P4, D, then away we go.
It took to nearly 10 minutes to get to first crack, so I hit the + button to extend the time. After first crack, silence for a minute or 2, then it seemed to bolt into second crack, with the resultant smoke coming out of the door, smoke detectors going off, and Mrs Lovey giving me a stern look.
I hit the cool button and waited, with the anticipation of having charcoal inside the drum. Let me tell you, I wasnt disappointed either :.
Oh well, back to the drawing board.

[kofeyh]

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Try "1/2, P2, B +".

Its 15 seconds over the standard profile. You really have to watch the process. It helps if you can avoid distractions. D profile adds on too much time, as it is B+ is long enough for the Peru.

Its fine if you roast on top of stove, if you have a rangehood; keep it off till you hear just the first sign of second crack then mash stop and gun the hood fan to full.

For my third effort I purposely pushed into second crack (some 10-15 seconds in fact) before hitting stop to understand how the Behmor worked; I now know, as a result, when to hit stop to halt roast (which is literally just as second crack starts, I suspect)..

My second (first roast was to season the machine) was a bit pale, as it never hit second crack - so its a bit bland on the palette.

Dont give up - seriously, try the default profiles around A/B before you are tempted to try any hack based roast (or push out the time via C/D). Get to know the machine (like I am).

[Banjo]

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hi Lovey, ive only done the 4 roasts so far, first one i tried to follow a fellow CSrs roast and was a bigger disaster than yours so decided to go back to one of the standard ones in the book

ive been using the same bean for two roasts and another for the third, 225g and using 1/2 P2 B
gives you 13.00 on the clock

first snaps of first crack around the 10.00 - 10.15 min mark
first crack finishing 11.30 - 11.45
hitting cool around 12 - 12.30 min

the 3 roasts have been very close time wise and im very happy with the results

Darren