HOMEmade CoOler

[doveguy1]

home made cooller, stuff that was arroung the house

[J.Jirehs Roaster]

home made cooller, stuff that was arroung the house

that is CoOl   

For me half the fun of this game is the junk I get to morph into coffee roasting junk....

[milowebailey]

Doveguy

I'm old..... can you post a larger photo.  I'm interested in seeing what you've done!!

Getting old sucks...

Maybe offer a list of materials, instructions step by step stuff....

Peter may learn something here..... lol

[headchange4u]

That cool Doveguy. I agree with milowebailey; larger pics would be nice

I am currently using a cooler made from a cut up plastic cat litter tub and aluminum screen and a small box fan I bought at Walmart. Cools a pound in about 2 minutes or less.

[peter]

Peter may learn something here..... lol

peter has already invented the world's best bean cooler.

That is, until he can actually see doveguy's.   

[Monito]

peter has already invented the world's best bean cooler.

That is, until he can actually see doveguy's.   

You haven't seen Monito's cooler, it cools 3 lbs of coffee in about 1 minute to less then room temperature.

I'll get pictures...

-pat

[ButtWhiskers]

Cooling the beans is easy.  Cooling the beans and collecting all the chaff is a bit more difficult...

My prototype chaff cyclone was disconnected the other night when I roasted 26 batches by TurboCrazy (it was way too windy for the drum).  I tracked so much chaff into the house that MrsBW actually chewed me out, which rarely happens as she is pretty thick-skinned about the whole coffee thing.  Most of the chaff actually fell off of my body, and wasn't carried in by my feet.  I was using my 5 gallon bucket with the spatter screen and stove vent fan, which will normally cool a 20oz batch in under a minute, but the hood with the line to the cyclone and the shopvac was off so the roasting shed took a good dusting of chaff over the course of the evening.  I forgot how bad that used to get before I set up the cyclone.

[Roasting Realtor]

Cooling the beans is easy.  Cooling the beans and collecting all the chaff is a bit more difficult...

My prototype chaff cyclone was disconnected the other night when I roasted 26 batches by TurboCrazy (it was way too windy for the drum).  I tracked so much chaff into the house that MrsBW actually chewed me out, which rarely happens as she is pretty thick-skinned about the whole coffee thing.  Most of the chaff actually fell off of my body, and wasn't carried in by my feet.  I was using my 5 gallon bucket with the spatter screen and stove vent fan, which will normally cool a 20oz batch in under a minute, but the hood with the line to the cyclone and the shopvac was off so the roasting shed took a good dusting of chaff over the course of the evening.  I forgot how bad that used to get before I set up the cyclone.

A picture of your set-up would be most enlightening.

[doveguy1]

I will need to reshoot it that one goes to hell when you try to enlage it . It is just a box fun with a screen type pizza pan some old wood I had to get away from the plastic fan and an old payio table that the glass broke on. Plan on making it bigger in a keg with some how to bag it out the side. It works very well with about a pound and a 1/2, thanks guys