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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #180 on: March 09, 2012, 01:54:10 PM »
Here's a couple shoddy photos I took with my phone...






Sweet roaster, but better pictures would be nice i drooled a bit  ;D ok ok still drooling

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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #181 on: March 09, 2012, 02:11:20 PM »
Here's a couple shoddy photos I took with my phone...






Sweet roaster, but better pictures would be nice i drooled a bit  ;D ok ok still drooling


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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #182 on: March 17, 2012, 12:48:22 AM »
Nice roaster Nathan...I had the opportunity to roast with one almost two years ago to the day

http://www.shakinjake.blogspot.com/2010/04/roasting-green-coffee-beans-ym-2-ambex.html

But roasting the smallest run you can with the Ambex, it's 2 lbs and poor old Jake can't slurp espresso fast enough to use the beans before they are history...so it looks like I will be sticking with my Hot Top for a bit more

http://www.shakinjake.blogspot.com/2010/03/sight-i-like-to-see-new-bag-of-green.html

I really can't complain using the Hot Top B...it does everything I want a roaster to do, except of course, use gas for heat=:-)



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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #183 on: March 17, 2012, 04:15:52 AM »
Nice roaster PozzSka.

Would be great to see it in all its glory with pictures from a decent camera.

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Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #184 on: March 17, 2012, 06:21:53 AM »
I'll get some better pics soon, been busy, getting ready to move. Ahhh!

And to shakinjake, I can roast as little as 8oz if I'm very careful, but it is very hard to control the roast. I've done it before though. I regularly do 1lb batches.

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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #185 on: March 17, 2012, 06:33:20 AM »
Had a chance to see a 240 kilo roaster in action yesterday. Very interesting operation. No photos allowed though. Talk about automation and computer control.

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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #186 on: March 17, 2012, 11:11:10 AM »
I'll get some better pics soon, been busy, getting ready to move. Ahhh!

And to shakinjake, I can roast as little as 8oz if I'm very careful, but it is very hard to control the roast. I've done it before though. I regularly do 1lb batches.




~~~~one pound roast lengths would be doable for me...I'm currently starting my roast batches with 280 grams (somewhere around a 1/2 pound) and I'm roasting again 5 days later.  When I was using a Behmor I weighed out 12 ounces at a time and none of it ever seemed to get stale, so I would imagine a one pound roast length would do it for me


IIRC, the guy that I was roasting with using his roaster, he told me the YM-2 was set up to do 4 lb batches (approx., 2 kilos), but could or would do as little as 2 lbs but no less than 2 lbs., or so he said...  Perhaps that was the official party line, although as you say Nathan, you are able to roast less


Yeah, anyways, I've always wanted to use a gas roaster at home...thought I might drift into a U.S. Roaster 1 lb. sample roaster but trying to come up with the entry price...the cash usually finds a different route to take.  I've even thought about selling my motorcycle to fund the purchase,

as little I ride it anymore...but I can't seem to get enough courage to write the first draft for the sale ad...


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Re: Show Off your Roaster
« Reply #187 on: March 18, 2012, 04:35:13 AM »
I've even thought about selling my motorcycle to fund the purchase,

as little I ride it anymore...but I can't seem to get enough courage to write the first draft for the sale ad...


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I was able to roast as little as one pound in a YM2 as well. It's been a few years, but I don't think there was much control at that level. Now you are really talking my language Jake, bikes and beans! I don't know: KTM vs a 1lb roaster...maybe KTM vs a 10lb roaster, that's more like it. Of course, I always wanted an Adventure; too bad I don't have a roaster to trade!

I tried to buy an old Probat L12 off of a local guy a couple weeks ago with no luck. You see, its an addiction...or a cult: you can never leave the fold!

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