What small batch roaster produces closest to a Commercial roaster?

[chokkidog]

it is way cheaper to roast 1.2kg of greens to sample 300g and give away/throw away the rest....

Don't throw away what you can't give away, your ( or someone else's ) garden will love it, even the less than successful roasts!

Great for acid loving plants like tomatoes, spuds, rhubarb and with some lime or wood ash.... everything else.

And worms just thrive on chaff! :-D

[ahhhespressso]

In my opinion, if you re sampling beans from a behmor or other domestic roaster most likely you can't imitate the roast in your solar (not even close). For example, solar turns off the heat elements in final stage set and you can't really do that with a behmor or maybe others too. Solar is designed as an automatic shop roaster. You can probably get an overall bolpark taste but Domestic or household roasters are what they are, for domestic use.

Have you tried reducing the preheat temp on your solar for lesser batch?

[Javaphile]

...For example, solar turns off the heat elements in final stage set and you can't really do that with a behmor or maybe others too...

Not to say the end result will be the same as the Solar, it may or may not, but on this point the new Behmor 1600 Plus allows you to turn the elements off at any point in the roasting cycle while in manual control mode.


Java "Gotta love control!" phile

[ahhhespressso]

yes i am aware of that but according to a friend of mine if you turn off or reduce the heat in behmor or hottop after first crack the temp goes down too fast

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

So does your friend own the new version of the Behmor (1600 plus) or the old version?