For the past few days, I have been searching and reading old threads for information about the various home-made bean coolers that have been featured on the boards from time to time.
It looks to me as though a lot of people have employed cylinder vacuum cleaners and colanders successfully. Other notable exceptions have been Coffee Maniac's UFO looking deep fat fryer conversion using a computer fan for cooling, and another, details of which have slipped my mind, in which a computer fan was also used to expidite the cooling process.
Anyway, I wanted to ask people for more details, and possibly photos, as we are looking to fashion some sort of cooler of this type.
We looked at bagged and bagless cylindar vacuums and wondered what people have found to be best. Any tips about mounting the colendar would be gratefully received.
It doesn't have to be a vacuum cooler. We would love to know about all solutions.
Whatever we do in the end, the final contraption must be able to cope with around a kilo (pre-roasted weight) of beans. It will be used in a garage, so noise and storage are not issues. It would be nice if it could remove as much chaff as possible by either sucking or (perhaps less desirably through mess if it has no 'bag') blowing.
Many thanks
Edit: Typo