g,day , aint this fun .

texx

G,day everyone.
totally new to the forum to real coffee and to roasting ,
i started on my adventure into real coffee 2 weeks ago with the purchase of my first machine a brand new shiny BZ35 and a bb004 grinder ( already want a second grinder ).
the last few days i have been knocking together some bits to turn some beans from green to brown and half an hour ago i had my first roast and i am happy as a pig in mud with it .
though it may not be great i think its ok for a first try .
i think at the first crack i turned down the heat a little to much not wanting to burn anything ( nerves ) .
i am still not sure if i reached second crack dont think i heard it .
this is what i wrote as i roasted .
2 minutes ...101 degrees
4 min 128
6min 147
8min 163
10min 180
12 199
12.40min 206 1st crack
turned the heat gun down a bit
14min 200
16min 194
18min 201
19min 206
20min 214
21min 222 thought a i heard a crackle and didnt want to burn so took them out and onto the cooler .

forgot to mention these are ....peru ceja de selva X 400grams start weight
dropped 65 gr after roast

Koffee_Kosmo

Let me be the first to welcome you to our friendly Crema forum and congratulations on your first roast They look like a very respectable roast in the photo It sure is a buzz on the first time The Peru ceja de selva is one of my favourite beans They are not only easy to roast but the flavour is amazing You have a nice machine in the BZ35 You did not mention what roaster you used KK

texx

sorry never thought of that i have it in another forum . tried to put more pics in here of the roast but it would only let me put one pic on and they are small pics . i used a tiffany bread maker rewired to run continually and a ryobi heat gun . when i have the spare dollars i am looking at one of your roasters ,picked up an oven to fit on top of your roaster yesterday cos aldi had them for 35 bucks so i grabbed one .

texx

cooler , refrigeration unit cooling fan fitted , worked very well .

Koffee_Kosmo

texx wrote:

sorry never thought of that i have it in another forum . tried to put more pics in here of the roast but it would only let me put one pic on and they are small pics . i used a tiffany bread maker rewired to run continually and a ryobi heat gun . when i have the spare dollars i am looking at one of your roasters ,picked up an oven to fit on top of your roaster yesterday cos aldi had them for 35 bucks so i grabbed one .

Yes the Aldi special was a good one for both the Pots & the Turbo Oven I am always available to help in anyway I can if you decide to build a KKTO I do like the bread maker/heat gun roaster as well Its a tried and tested design that does a good job With regards to the photos on the Crema forum you only need to click on the photo to expand and click again to reduce Again a great job all round Texx KK

beanflying

Welcome to Crema 🙂 Funny I was revisiting my first roast method of sorts last week as I threw one into the stainless bowl rather than get the Hottop and all the gear out of the moving boxes. Enjoy the roasting journey it has been a fun first few years for me and so much more to learn.

Rider

Koffee Kosmo wrote:

With regards to the photos on the Crema forum you only need to click on the photo to expand and click again to reduce KK

Off topic sorry, but gee that is a neat trick. Love it..

texx

what home life ?????????? dont have any .

texx

nope but we only see home as a remote bedroom . we are at the shop until 9.30 or 10 pm for a few reasons ( its complicated ) and we leave home to head into the shop some where just before 6 am as a rule . so in the winter we dont see home in the daylight at all . johno

texx

been busy as a one armed wall paper hanger and not much time for anything else . (1) loving having the coffee machine should of done it years ago . ( 2) enjoying the roasting specially the smell it leaves in my workshop . (3) hate teaching people only shown the wife the basics ( have no other staff ) then leave her to it , but i seem to make almost all the coffee's (4) feedback has been the best part a lot of people taking the time to say thank you for the coffee it was very nice , and on clearing the tables all cups totally empty , must be doing some thing right ;D. good wood i was going to get some bowl blanks from brissy but never got there . i have a hat stand half built in red cedar that i should of finished a month ago . i need to make some more pens, they are selling well and my stocks are low . hairy oak would be nice looking on group handles but it likes to split along the rays when drying , river red gum plenty of that nice and hard but not much feature in it . the problem with would is when making small items its hard to get much specky grain showing ( small surface area ) . there are a few other nice timbers here that i have not had time to go and get yet but i will get around to it one day . johno