Thanks for a real world video presentation. Sorry about the "burnage" but honestly, your video was the best by far at showing how to use and what to expect from this roaster.
Uploaded July 2021, after many years of home coffee roasting initially with a popcorn popper and then with the Hottop home coffee roaster. Did a lot of research and settled on the Kaldi Wide 400 home coffee roaster. Check out my video including my little mishap where I burn part of the paint on the roaster. Anyway overall I’m very happy with the roaster as well as the shaft collector cooler. Compared to the Hottop Roaster my roasting is much cleaner and less messy. The taste of the coffee is amazing and I like having complete control over the roast. I modulated the temperature using the gas as well as the controller on the chaff collector and cooler which I highly recommend.. On my next roasting session I plan to roast in the garage as there’s little to no chaff that gets left on the ground.
Honestly, for that kind of money, I'd want temperature control and I would expect the burner to be built into the roaster. It's nice though, looks like good roasts.
Thanks for a real world video presentation. Sorry about the "burnage" but honestly, your video was the best by far at showing how to use and what to expect from this roaster.
Uploaded July 2021, after many years of home coffee roasting initially with a popcorn popper and then with the Hottop home coffee roaster.
Did a lot of research and settled on the Kaldi Wide 400 home coffee roaster. Check out my video including my little mishap where I burn part of the paint on the roaster.
Anyway overall I’m very happy with the roaster as well as the shaft collector cooler. Compared to the Hottop Roaster my roasting is much cleaner and less messy. The taste of the coffee is amazing and I like having complete control over the roast. I modulated the temperature using the gas as well as the controller on the chaff collector and cooler which I highly recommend..
On my next roasting session I plan to roast in the garage as there’s little to no chaff that gets left on the ground.
Honestly, for that kind of money, I'd want temperature control and I would expect the burner to be built into the roaster. It's nice though, looks like good roasts.
I'm also roasting on a Hottop and find it's time to upgrade. Just started looking and the Kaldi and hope to follow your journey.
Beans look great
Apologies for the video being a little bit shaky I’m in a wheelchair so I was trying to film with one hand while roasting with the other.