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...

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

(see 0:06)

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

Seems Ikawa just announced their new home roaster with a 100g capacity.

I notice they don't mention the temp sensors (the old Home had one while the pro had 2). Also concerning is this quote:

Referencing some sort of monthly subscription to unlock all the features. Was...

I've heard great things about using a PID for repeatability, so I picked up a used Fuji PXG-4. I had a heck of a time getting it to communicate with Artisan, but now its talking, and now I'm struggling with the roasting.

The way I roasted previously, manually, was I would...

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...

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...

Hello
I am dark roasting Sumatra with very good results. Is it possible to blend it with other type of beans in order to make it even sweeter espresso, without losing the Sumatra qualities ? ( if so, what beans and what degree of roasting)

Thanks

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...