The Ikawa Home Roaster arrived a day early! I'm happy to answer direct questions, but I'm really hoping that several of the other HB members who also pre-ordered will chime in and share their experiences and learnings!

Key takeaways:

Really impressed with the initial unboxing...

The Fresh Roast line of roasters has mostly been limited to batch sizes of ~1/4 lb. I was excited a couple months ago when I heard they were working on a 1/2 lb roaster, and they finally released it a day or two ago.

Hi,

I am in the process of taking apart my Quest M3 for the first time to swap out a bad heating element (way overdue for a cleaing, I know...)

I'm trying to remove the 4 allen screws as per this sweet marias video

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on my allen set, the 7/64 seems to be too...

Since I missed out on the group Geisha buy, I thought I'd post this:

I've been avoiding the Geisha thing for years now, but in a moment of weakness, I bought 10# of Panama Esmeralda Private Collection Geisha Natural from Roastmasters. It's hard to believe that this bag of...

Hey Barista Superstars,
Hope you are all well and safe.

I just joined this community and already here asking for help! :D

I need to buy a decent coffee roaster that can help me in roasting about a kg of green beans at a time. I will be using this at home and potentially the...

Looks like fun. Two minute video.

A few other threads may have something similar but in the interest of keeping the Ikawa Home user review thread more specific to reviews...

What Ikawa greens have been best (or which to avoid)? Any recommended profile to use with that green?

I'm thinking especially of the sale...

I recently set up artisan on a different laptop running Linux Mint 20. The software behaves differently on my Hottop B-2K+ than it did on my prior laptop. The fan setting seems to follow the heater setting, which requires me to manually correct the fan setting during each...