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Roasters-Different Roasting Equipment
Firstly I would like to attest to the simplistic roasting on my modified KKTO . Roasts roll out,600-1000 grm batches are the prefered weights and are roasted by profile ,sound and smell.But for my personal use ,as I am a one person household and morning coffee only, I was given a Hot Top B with added bean mass probe as a birthday present from my family. Had some trouble coming to terms with a drum roaster with a set program pre installed and a K type probe reading the air temp. on the display.This air temp has full control over the roast duration and a maximum of 220deg when reached ejected the beans.Time on the display ranged from 0-25 minutes but never controlled the roast.Had quite some difficulty reaching 2ndC because air temp and bean temp were up to 20deg different with the latter being the lower so my preferred roast of 200deg could not be achieved .After much research and deliberations I applied my profile roasting experience by using bean temp as my base and controlling heat and fan to achieve 1stC at 174deg and 2ndC at 194deg ,approximately, on a 400grm roast.Timing is set at 24mins and and counts down and has a duration of 20mins to eject to a beautiful cs8 roast at 2ndC.I now have a documented profile of time,fan and heat to achieve my desired result for my personal satisfaction.
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