Is Airchef the ideal home roaster?

Discuss roast levels and profiles for espresso, equipment for roasting coffee.
Deano
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#1: Post by Deano »

I have been thinking of making a Crazy Turbo or KKTO roaster. Doing an eBay search for halogen turbo ovens turned up the Visicook Airchef. The Airchef is a halogen turbo oven with a rotisserie function and a drum/basket which looks like it was made to roast coffee.

Specs are 13oow, 10litre oven space with a maximum temperature of 230 degrees Celsius.


Here are a couple of links with information;
http://www.teamuki.com/index.php?route= ... uct_id=153
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Team-CRF5T-Visi ... 00JYCX4QM/

Has anyone ever heard of this and do you think I could roast coffee in it?

note: I originally posted this in the Grinder forum by mistake, deleted that one and created this one.

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TomC
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#2: Post by TomC »

Neither link yields relevant information.
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samuellaw178
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#3: Post by samuellaw178 »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vXpxkWy2gg

It may work sufficiently to brown the greens into roasted coffees, but I think there're quite a bit of shortcomings.

1) RPM seems slow from the video (look at minute 4:06)
2) 230 Celsius (assumed for Max Environmental Temp) may not be hot enough?
3) Can we hear the cracks?
4) Lack of temp control

Behmor may be a better choice still for that style of roasting..

Deano (original poster)
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#4: Post by Deano (original poster) »

TomC wrote:Neither link yields relevant information.
Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.