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by kschendel
April 30th, 2019, 7:53 pm
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 50
Views: 2110

My rationale behind the reason I home roast

That last sentence is mainly why I roast. I've been doing it for 10 years or so, using Freshroast air roasters. There's just two of us and we don't drink tons of coffee, nor do we do espresso all that often. I enjoy trying different greens from different sources. Every now and then we'll buy a
by kschendel
May 6th, 2017, 9:36 pm
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 18
Views: 1577

Home roasted vs. micro roasters

What you taste will depend not only on your roasting skills as compared to a local roaster, but also on the sensitivity of your taste buds. It's very subjective and basically you have to answer it for yourself. For example, I roast on an SR500 with no instrumentation. I also buy a couple pounds from...
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by kschendel
November 27th, 2016, 7:41 pm
Forum: Buying Advice
Replies: 5
Views: 1111

Why I'm Leaning Toward Acquiring FreshRoast SR700 Rather Than SR500

I don't have an SR700 (still using my SR500), but a bit of poking around turned up an old sweet maria's forum thread about the two. I believe the consensus was that the two are pretty much the same except for the temp monitoring and readouts in the SR700. So, I think you are on the right track
by kschendel
November 5th, 2016, 11:16 am
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 21
Views: 1340

How much weekly consumption to justify home roasting

If you are thinking about money savings you have to ask "compared to what?" I roast maybe 1/3 pound a week (two cups a day for two of us) on a relatively simple and cheap SR500 with no instrumentation. I've convinced myself that while my roasts aren't quite as good as the best $20-ish per 12 oz coffee
by kschendel
September 29th, 2016, 9:56 pm
Forum: Buying Advice
Replies: 25
Views: 1982

Roaster recommendation?

If you want to take a smaller step, maybe get a Freshroast SR500. It's an air roaster, but you can fiddle with the heat levels, fan setting, and cycle the heat manually if you want to slow down a particular phase. It's no Hottop, but it's $170 instead of $1000. I get fairly good results out of
by kschendel
October 26th, 2015, 1:49 pm
Forum: Coffee Roasting
Replies: 10
Views: 391

Thinking of starting home roasting

+1 on the SR-500. It's good enough to get good results from, and if you screw up a roast you haven't lost 1/2 pound or more of green. I have a couple years on mine, and while I occasionally toy with the idea of moving to a Behmor (or Hottop, or even Huky or Quest), the results I
by kschendel
January 24th, 2015, 11:53 am
Forum: Coffee Brewing
Replies: 24
Views: 1288

The French Press reinvented

Well, the press version leaves out that all-important siphon step: "is today the day that this expensive and delicate piece of glassware is going to implode and shatter?" I agree that a siphon is no more complicated, in terms of what steps you take, but surely a press variant is going to be a lot le...
by kschendel
April 1st, 2014, 5:08 pm
Forum: Repairs, Restorations & Mods
Replies: 10
Views: 4694

Dead heating element - causes & how to prevent it

If the water sitting in the boiler was somewhat alkaline, it could have corroded and de-zincified the brass. Some corrosion stress cracks are certainly possible, and disassembling the machine could easily have extended the cracks. If you are entirely positive that no electricity has been applied to ...
by kschendel
January 10th, 2014, 2:33 pm
Forum: Knockbox
Replies: 15
Views: 1168

New industry situation for me

Indeed. My favorite Dilberts are from a few years back when he was telecommuting for short while. I liked the one where he's in a bathrobe (more or less) while holding a fully dressed Dilbert doll up to the teleconferencing video camera
by kschendel
July 22nd, 2013, 8:47 am
Forum: Coffee Brewing
Replies: 18
Views: 15217

Does Aeropress make coffee or espresso?

About the Andy Schecter reference: there's a long, long thread somewhere, I think on Coffeegeek but I'm not 100% sure, about using the aeropress. The last dozen or so pages are filled with a increasingly heated discussion mostly between the Aeropress inventor Alan Adler and Andy Schecter arguing ove...