Corretto gone live!

[greenman]

Re: Corretto gone live!

You will find that with 500-600gm in bucket the beans agitate better and dont eject themselves all over the place!!

[Buschy]

Re: Corretto gone live!

Thanks for the feedback! Looking at photos of different setups on CS and watching the home made videos was A LOT of help. Cant wait to give it another go with more beans. The next one should be easier.

[seedlings]

Re: Corretto gone live!

Nice job! I love the "travel kit" that youve put together, too. My wife would LOVE it!

(She only wishes I could be that organized)

CHAD

[runfast]

Re: Corretto gone live!

Well done, it gets more relaxing after the first!

[greenman]

Re: Corretto gone live!

Congrats on your first Corretto roast Buschy, it looks as though you are on the right track to successful roasting.
I used the small fan to disperse chaff and then to cool the beans and it worked quite well except in the Perth summer when second crack rolled on a little too long at times, I have now set up an exhaust fan in my cooling box and they are room temp in about 40 seconds.
Enjoy your roasting experience
cheers......................gm

[Buschy]

After a week of gathering various bits and pieces I finally completed my first roast today using my new Corretto. 270g of Peru Grace Villa Rica Estate. The setup still needs a bit of fine tuning but appears to have done the job. I live in a unit and although spacious it isnt very conducive to a permanent roasting setup with a work bench, etc. I needed to come up with something where I could easily take all of the gear and throw in a box when not in use. The little fan works quite well as it can quickly be turned horizontal to cool the beans after roasting. Beans took approximately 3>4 minutes to reach outdoor temperature of 26 degrees (I threw my DMM copper pipe insulated bead probe in the beans as they were cooling). Lost a few beans along the way (jumpy little suckers...), final weight 212 g. The roast was off to a slow start, see below.

5 minutes > 100 degrees (decided to lower gun because I probably had it positioned for 500g, not 270.)
9 minutes >140 (lowered gun a bit more)
14:45 minutes > 186 (FC)
18 minutes > 200
21:30 > 200 (SC)
23 > 200 (Decided to pull the pin, beans still crackling away when poured into colander).

98% mess free.