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Bordering on dusk tonight, decided Id do a 500gm blend of 60% Ethiopian Harrar & 40% PNG Kinjibi.
I roast in my shed, & when the lights fading I have a reading lamp pinpointed on the beans to illuminate the roast in progress.
All was going fine, reached FC at 205C at the 13min mark (tried to keep a steady ramp of temp, as I knew the Ethiopians being fairly hard core to roast needed long intensity, but the PNGs I wanted medium roasted to retain their lovely sweetness)
The roast was looking nice and even in tone at this stage, with expected discrepant colourations with the Ethiopians, when a dirty big moth decides to flutter in & perch himself on the edge of my reading lamp. Dirty & big, he was blackish with a total wing/body span of a good 80mm.
A tad disgruntled that he was distracting me from watching the beans for signs of SC, I atempted to flick him away. He got a bit disoriented, flying into the jet-stream thats my pedestal fan in the background to cool HG & blow roast chaff away, and yep ... landed straight in the cauldron. A quick cremation.
A quick sizzle, & he was a part of my roast. A momentary panic that my roast was worthless now, tainted with bug carcass, quickly turned to ideas of redemption. Ahh, hes relatively small & the remains are part of the chaff blowing out.
Decided to raise the HG slightly to slow the temp ramp to SC, adjusted the fan & turned on blast directly into the bowl to blow as much chaff remains as possible - moth hopefully included (RIP) ...
Anyway, after a frantic minute of cyclonic like winds via the fan to eliminate as much dead husk remains as possible, I re-adjusted the fan, lowered the HG again to maintain a steady ramp just on SC at 20mins.
Nice & even roast I must say - a miniscule amount of oily sheen (or was that the proteins from the moth :-?)
So, voila - my mothiopian blend:
59% Harrar
39% Kinjibi
2% Bloody Moth
Im off to THAT hardware store tomorrow to get me one of those neon like, distractive come hither zapper thingies for anymore renegade moths that attempt to sabotage me roasting efforts - I can do a fine job sabotaging my own roasts, without the help of bugs thankyou! ;D
I roast in my shed, & when the lights fading I have a reading lamp pinpointed on the beans to illuminate the roast in progress.
All was going fine, reached FC at 205C at the 13min mark (tried to keep a steady ramp of temp, as I knew the Ethiopians being fairly hard core to roast needed long intensity, but the PNGs I wanted medium roasted to retain their lovely sweetness)
The roast was looking nice and even in tone at this stage, with expected discrepant colourations with the Ethiopians, when a dirty big moth decides to flutter in & perch himself on the edge of my reading lamp. Dirty & big, he was blackish with a total wing/body span of a good 80mm.
A tad disgruntled that he was distracting me from watching the beans for signs of SC, I atempted to flick him away. He got a bit disoriented, flying into the jet-stream thats my pedestal fan in the background to cool HG & blow roast chaff away, and yep ... landed straight in the cauldron. A quick cremation.
A quick sizzle, & he was a part of my roast. A momentary panic that my roast was worthless now, tainted with bug carcass, quickly turned to ideas of redemption. Ahh, hes relatively small & the remains are part of the chaff blowing out.
Decided to raise the HG slightly to slow the temp ramp to SC, adjusted the fan & turned on blast directly into the bowl to blow as much chaff remains as possible - moth hopefully included (RIP) ...
Anyway, after a frantic minute of cyclonic like winds via the fan to eliminate as much dead husk remains as possible, I re-adjusted the fan, lowered the HG again to maintain a steady ramp just on SC at 20mins.
Nice & even roast I must say - a miniscule amount of oily sheen (or was that the proteins from the moth :-?)
So, voila - my mothiopian blend:
59% Harrar
39% Kinjibi
2% Bloody Moth
Im off to THAT hardware store tomorrow to get me one of those neon like, distractive come hither zapper thingies for anymore renegade moths that attempt to sabotage me roasting efforts - I can do a fine job sabotaging my own roasts, without the help of bugs thankyou! ;D
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