Hi Kevin, It looks like we've got a little movement, so the connections are good! I've had a lull in roasting, lately. I went from popper to uber-popper to Behmor. My typical roast is 1/5 pound and I haven't found a good way to get that done. The Behmor produced a noticeable improvement over the air-poppers (IMO), but I've seen all along that it roasted too fast. When that small batch goes into exothermic, there's no stretching time at all. (Typical Roast is P1 or P2). I despair over the Behmor, feeling that it is so much more but so much less than I want. My last roast before my roasting hiatus used P3, or P4 (notes not at hand) in order to stretch out the roast to a reasonable length. Unless this was completely random, if I recall correctly, the depth of flavor from that roast was astonishing, compared to what I had been experiencing. This is the first time I have sort of given up roasting out of frustration, and I think the Behmor is the instigator: it showed me both what I hadn't got and what I don't seem to be able to get. So the Behmor has been a great, instructive, pause in my journey. Happy Roasting, robert yoder <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
Hi, 1/5 that is technical less than the Behmor can roast on the settings. I have never really used 1/4 pound, but it is said to be a hard small batch to roast, so smaller is probably even harder. Have you tried opening the door during the end of first crack? Claus |
Hi, Claus, Thanks for your post. I checked with Joe Behm before purchasing my Behmor. He was kind enough to try a fifth-pound roast, but said it took LONGER than he had expected. I do open the door a bit at first crack. This weekend I'll give it another go. Still a work in progress. Happy Roasting, robert <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
200 to 300 grams seems to be the sweet spot for me in the Behmor. Smaller load sizes are definitely more difficult to get right, for me anyway. I think the Behmor works on both radiant and bean to bean convective (?) too. If you don't have enough bean mass to store the radiant heat things may go slower and less predictably? just a thought, no solid evidence other than roasting results. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Robert Yoder wrote: <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
I get the best results with 1.25lb batches. ricky carter wrote: <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
Robert, Do you know what your warranty is on your Behmor? Parts and labor? One year? Thanks Robert, Joe On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Robert Yoder wrote: <Snip> -- Ambassador for Specialty Coffee and palate reform. Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
Interesting. Mine works best at just under a pound ... “We’ve got no money, so we’ve got to think.” --Dr. Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Rich wrote: <Snip> er <Snip> d! <Snip> ve <Snip> is <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> tmariascoffee.com <Snip> mariascoffee.com <Snip> ariascoffee.com <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmar=iascoffee.com Homeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee=.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7820 |
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I've been pushing close to a full pound lately on my Behmor and liking the results. I used to target between 10 - 13 oz but was always short on coffee during the week so I push close to a full pound when I'm roasting light shy of Full City+ which since I roast to City and City+ for most roasts is fine with me. I've also been opening the door during first crack to slow the roll. I do a P3 typically to first and open the door to control the temp (watch the temp on a thermocouple in the back of the Behmor. I start with a pre-heat by running the Behmor for a minute with the (old style) chaff try in, then hitting stop and putting in the loaded drum with my Ove Glove protected hands and programming my P3 profile and hitting start. This gives me a drop-in temp of 200 degrees and also helps to make my summer/winter roast profiles more closely correlated since they start at about the same temp instead of 20 - 30 degrees apart. When the Behmor has been in the cool cycle for about two minutes, I'll hit stop and pull the drum and dump the beans in my external bean cooler and restart the cooling cycle on the Behmor to cool the beans down within about four minutes. I find that the Behmor does a great job bringing the beans down to about 200 degrees F, but after that the cooling slows and the oven will retain heat so it really slows when trying for room temp beans. This is giving times in the 14 - 18 minute range to first crack which many will consider too long, but I've been liking what I'm getting in the cup and liking the increased batch size. Note that I did pick out the hottest outlet to roast (highest voltage, least voltage drop) for best performance by using the washer dryer outlet that's on it's own circuit on a short run from the breaker box, I think that helps. I use a Kill-A-Watt to watch the voltage and once decided it was a no-go for roasting because I was smoking meat with the electric meat smoker in the back yard during a hot summer day and the Behmor on the pre-heat pulled the voltage down to 112 or 114 V which I knew was a no-go. Good luck! -Chris On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:42 PM, ricky carter wrote: <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
cooling is the reason i keep my roasts between 200 and 300 grams. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Yakster wrote: <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://host.sweetmariascoffee.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast_lists.sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures -upload yours!) :http://www.sweetmariascoffee.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
Yeah, it takes a while to cool those big roasts. That's why I pull the beans and cool them with a shop vac in my own cooler made from owned and trifted components shown here: |