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It's crickets in here
Bigtuna
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Posted on 12/09/2024 5:50 PM
OK.. I'll be honest it's been a couple yrs. Since I've been here, man this place is really dead in here, I know the price of green beans is thru the roof, could cause a slowdown of home roasting
 
renatoa
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Posted on 12/10/2024 1:13 AM
Crickets and... beans cracks Grin
Perhaps we exhausted the seven ways to skin a bean...
Time for a new physics chapter ? Cuantic roasting anyone ?
 
Bigtuna
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Posted on 12/10/2024 6:14 PM
Ya.. this place use to be hoppin
 
oldgrumpus
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Posted on 12/10/2024 11:20 PM
Is it because the younger folks aren't as interested? Too much trouble, buy a roaster, read the directions, watch a youtube and it's good enough?
 
btreichel
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Posted on 12/10/2024 11:48 PM
My observation / personal theory is that the skywalker / alm discussion sucked all of the oxygen out of the room. Just my 0.02$
 
renatoa
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Posted on 12/11/2024 2:26 AM
Guilty as sin Grin
Actually is what I feel the home roasting needs for decades... a bare machine, at a decent cost, good enough results for beginners, with great moding potential.
 
btreichel
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Posted on 12/11/2024 11:25 PM
There's truth in that. But is the quality actually there? I can't say I followed the discussion about it closely. That, and my behmor is a good size for a single coffee drinker in the family. After a 1000 + roasts I can get it to perform the way I want, in spite of its limited in roast data available.
 
renatoa
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Posted on 12/12/2024 1:46 AM
I know one unit of a friend, I am using as an example of "heavy" usage, as it came from the factory, without any mod, that roasted about 135 kg in 9 months, i.e. about 400 roasts, then the lamp required replacement.
Nothing else required servicing, just usual deposits cleaning.
I consider this as a fairly abused roaster, by the home roasting standards, 4 kg weekly is far above a family consumption average.
 
oldgrumpus
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Posted on 12/12/2024 1:38 PM
Another theory on the topic from the way I see the types of people. Some people are motivated by "the process", others by "the results" and some enjoy both. I'm one that enjoys both, and more specifically the process of building the roaster, which requires a LOT of thought, success and failures and then when it's all done... enjoying the results of all that effort + learning the roast process. Maybe, some purchase a roaster with a good price point and just fast-forward the DIY stuff? Modifying a roaster is great, but making one is just too much for most. And that's my $0.02.
 
btreichel
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Posted on 12/12/2024 11:12 PM

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renatoa wrote:

I know one unit of a friend, I am using as an example of "heavy" usage, as it came from the factory, without any mod, that roasted about 135 kg in 9 months, i.e. about 400 roasts, then the lamp required replacement.
Nothing else required servicing, just usual deposits cleaning.
I consider this as a fairly abused roaster, by the home roasting standards, 4 kg weekly is far above a family consumption average.


Sounds reasonable.
 
btreichel
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Posted on 12/12/2024 11:13 PM

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oldgrumpus wrote:

Another theory on the topic from the way I see the types of people. Some people are motivated by "the process", others by "the results" and some enjoy both. I'm one that enjoys both, and more specifically the process of building the roaster, which requires a LOT of thought, success and failures and then when it's all done... enjoying the results of all that effort + learning the roast process. Maybe, some purchase a roaster with a good price point and just fast-forward the DIY stuff? Modifying a roaster is great, but making one is just too much for most. And that's my $0.02.


I built all my own roasters until 10? years ago, and then I got tired of the hastles.
 
wbbh
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Posted on 12/13/2024 9:02 AM
This forum is an information source to me. I enjoy coffee and wanted to build roaster that would do about a pound of coffee. Another poster here built something that looked interesting so I built my roaster on his general design. I also posted a thread on my roaster to return the favor for others. I look in daily to see what is going on and occasionally post.

I roast coffee for home use and to occasionally for gifts. I had tried various commercially made home roasters, but they didn't have enough capacity. I used the heat gun and dog bowl method for a while, but I really do not enjoy the smell of roasting coffee and it was pretty miserable method during out hot and humid summers.
 
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