A beginners guide to roasting using a Corretto?

[seedlings]

Re: A beginners guide to roasting using a Corrett

Heres some videos of my setup. If you have plenty of free time, there may be some helpful information in there somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrKt-fxGi4A

CHAD

[Stan]

Re: A beginners guide to roasting using a Corrett

For cooling I use a cheap kitchen colander/Strainer made with fine stainless mesh.  I bought it from a store that only sells cheap made in Asia type items.  I hold this over a fan and agitate the beans this cools them quickly without using space.  

The fan I use is one you can lay on its back without impeding the air flow and it doesnt take up to much space.  I use the same fan to cool the heat gun and blow the chaff away from the Heat Gun intakes whilst I am doing the roast.  If you look around the shops you will find something that will suit.  It is called a turbo Line and is made in china and cost about $25.  I dont use it for anything else as it is a similar style to the fans that were reported to have caused several fires years ago.  I dont leave it running unattended and never use it inside the house.  But it was cheap and does the job.  The table I use is a cheap camping table approx. 100cm x 60 cm (make sure it is stable). It folds away when not in use. Handy when you dont have much space.

Hope this helps - Happy Roasting  

[Thundergod]

Re: A beginners guide to roasting using a Corrett

Buschy my probe is the same.

Ive drilled a hole in the pan for it now but the first way I got it into the bean mass was to attach it to an old wooden spoon.

I drilled small holes in the spoon face to allow me to push wire through and twist together to hold the temp probe wire in place.

You can wrap the probe wire up and around the spoon and secure again at the top of the handle.

I placed the probe in the bowl of the spoon so that I could position it in a sheltered position away from the direct heat of the gun.

That way the gun could only ever hit the back of the spoon if I accidentally pointed it too close to the spoon.
The beans never seemed to get caught in an eddy as the mass moves and they all get carried along.

All you need to do is figure a way to secure the spoon to the pan; tying to the handle should work.

If you want to drill a hole in the pan like I did you can secure the probe with a small washer and another screw.
The edge of the washer holds the wire in place when its tightened in place by the screw.

[greenman]

Re: A beginners guide to roasting using a Corrett

Hi Buschy, Ive got some photos of my corretto set-up on Facebook if you want to check it out:--

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=9558&l=10e83&id=520347251

cheers....................gm

[Buschy]

Ive been skimming through several (hundred... ) previous threads about roasting and Correttos for the past few days and purchased an old Breville BB400 bread maker from Cash Convertors and a QM-1320 DMM from Jaycar today. Although surfing thru the threads is informative, it is also very time consuming if you have to perform a search on every step along the Corretto way and then sift thru each topics numerous responses. I havent come across one topic that just provides a BASIC overview of the ENTIRE process from start to finish (gun placement, probe placement, fan placement, first crack, second crack, approx. temperatures, how to cool, when to bag, etc). There was a sticky entitled "A beginners guide to roasting using a popper" that provided an excellent summary of what is required when using a popcorn popper, can someone recommend a similar thread with respect to a Corretto? Once a beginner has gone thru the procedure following a simple prescriptive approach, then its much easier to go back and perform a search on individual topics and zero in on a specific question or questions.

PS. I live in a unit and space is at a premium. I will be roasting on our outside deck and dont have space for a large table with room for garbage bins with exhaust fans for cooling, etc. Hopefully a couple of metal colanders will be equally effective? PPS. My DMM came with a temperature sensor but it isnt a needle like probe, more like a piece of string with a little black piece of tape on the end. Just drop it down from the top and insert thru a hole drilled in side of bread basket?