Bean Coolers

Lacehim

There are no bean cooler threads so I've started one! 8)

Show us your bean coolers, post up a how to make one, post photos, and tell us what you think about it, and how you could improve it!

I'll post up mine tomorrow when I get to take a photo! but my first ever was a bean cooler made out of a cardboard box, with a fan in the size from bunnings (the ones with a power plug), and the strainer from the pasta pot my KKTO came with. 🙂 Worked a charm! KK gave me the idea/knowhow, and it lasted a long time!

Koffee_Kosmo

The most cost affective and easy to make bean cooler is to use the 20 lt bucket method with a bathroom exhaust fan A drawing of the design [attach=2] [attach=3] [attach=4] The finished result I have a presentation on the downloadable PDF (below) Also on Google Docks here - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13D3gZIeqDROS6G6IAldPDMLCvpsXHQla4-4tGbG75tw/present#slide=id.i0 KK

PDF_Kosmic_KoolerIncluding.pdf

derrilex

Mine

Kelsey

What do you put over the top D? Surely you don't just dum 'em in?

derrilex

I have done by mistake Kelsey :rofl: 300 mm drum sieve

Lacehim

where did you get your 300mm drum sieve from D?

derrilex

A kitchen supplies mob at Salisbury http://www.cfeqld.com.au/

Seeya_Latte

Mine 20lt bucket 200ml fan probably 8inches off the bottom 3 x air vents 2 x sieves top one for the beans the another one just before the fan acts as final catch for chaff and keeps my kids fingers at bay Unlike the bottom sieve which is wedged in fairly tightly, the top one isn't so I can move the beans once cooled

Lacehim

That's what I'm about to build Seeya Latte. Where did you buy your sieves? I looked everywhere a while ago and couldn't find any reasonably priced ones.

Seeya_Latte

Hi Lace The trusty $2 shop near me but strangely cost $3.50 ea

derrilex

They are pricey if bought new Lacehim. I think mine was $ 30 squids or there abouts. But I had to have right then and there :rofl: :rofl:

JeanetteT

I bought a cheap cake tin (the kind that you can remove the base) and attached a piece of fly screen that I purchased from bunnings. If that's any help?

JeanetteT

Pic in case my explanation didn't make sense.

UNM

I was going to ask how you attached the fly screen, until I saw the picture. :thumb:

Kelsey

Seeya Latte wrote:

Hi Lace The trusty $2 shop near me but strangely cost $3.50 ea

Group buy, anyone? 😉

Lacehim

Sounds like I need to trawl the shops. I've got some mesh that KK gave me, so that might be a last resort. The existing colander that I have will only really cool 250gm, so a bucket set up would be nice to cool bigger capacities quicker.

bcspark

I have been using my downdraught cooler for 12months plus. I have found with the 200mm fan and dual mesh pans the cooling and extra chalf removal to be as good as expected. The miners screens are 2.5mm&5mm . Below are examples.

borat123

Hi all, Anyone remember seeing a post in a bean cooler thread (here or elsewhere) where the poster had used a plastic, two piece, threaded fitting to mount through the hole/s in the 20ltr bucket? It provided a one or two inch flange to support a connection to some flexible pipe. My cooler's pool hose connection to the hole in the bucket is looking a little worse for wear as the gaffa tape glue is deteriorating from the heat... I vaguely remember that it might have come from Bunnings. Something like this: I've got 24hrs back in Perth next week and was going to grab a couple if I can find them. Thanks.

Brett_H

I don't remember the post but I saw fittings like that in bunnings in the Plumbing/bathroom section. I was in at the Rocklea store yesterday fro some threaded unions not dissimilar to that one posted.

Lacehim

I just used them on my aquaponics set up. Not sure what you have set up though. Any piccies?