Homemade Bean Coolers

[peter]

If this proves to be clear as mud, I'll post a few pics soon.  All it is, is a box I cut down from a larger box, with a baffle taped into the inside that runs from side to side, in effect creating a two-sectioned interior.  The fan is one of those generic black plastic-housed fans that is angled up, and set on HI.  Anything could be used to hold the hot beans, colander, etc.  I just had this Tupperware square from a previous bean cooler.

I like it 'cuz the fans are only $10, and available anywhere, when this one gives up the ghost.  Plus it's very quiet, and doesn't drown out Brahm's String Serenade serenely soothing the scene.  Anything less would be uncivilized.

[grinderz]

That's clear as a bell, peter. Thanks. I started a similar contraption, but I had planned to have the fan mounted in a baffle a few inches from the bottom of the beans blowing up. My BM/HG often leaves quite a lot of chaff in the beans and I was hoping to blow most of it out (I roast outside year round).

[cfsheridan]

My favorite part of the design is the part where the "Cool Air [is] Drawn Across Perfectly Roasted Beans"

I am sure it took many years to perfect the latter part of that feature.  I am afraid I cannot attempt to create a device like yours, Mein Herr, as I lack such beans.

[peter]

Hey... perfect roasts? ...it's so easy a caveman can do it.  Just ask Joe.