Too Much Coffee

Some months ago I purchased a Hottop programmable and now use it all the time in preference to my Gene Café. One thing I did not like about the Hottop is the difficulty of extracting the fumes when roasting indoors.

With the Gene the air flow is very gentle and exhausts in a more or less vertical direction. With the machine sited under a cooker extractor hood it is easy to extract the fumes.

The air flowrate from the Hottop is much greater and exhausts horizontally. With the machine sited under a cooker hood the fumes “escape” under adjacent kitchen cabinets making it impossible to extract them.

I have made a very simple adapter to turn the exhaust flow into a vertical direction which allows it to be extracted by a cooker hood. This works very well making indoor roasting much more practical. If anyone wants to give this a try the following photos should give you the idea.

That's clever but I've never had that problem and mine sits under the cooker hood and vents directly up there and then outdoors.

Thanks GreenBean. I just took delivery of mine today, so this could be a handy tip.

I'm with Mr. George... didn't have a problem venting it

Question Greenie... what sort of material is your exhaust flow director? Looks like a regular plastic jug... no heat/melt/plastic fumes concern there?

I'm with George on this one. No problems under the cooker hood, even though mine is of the recycling variety and not that efficient. Still I might get your exhaust system knocked up in steel and chromed just for the pose. Anyone know where I can get furry dice for my Hottie?

I must say I am surprised you guys do not have a problem with the fumes. I can only imagine that you have a higher tolerance for fumes than I have.

Bean_Believer wrote:Question Greenie... what sort of material is your exhaust flow director? Looks like a regular plastic jug... no heat/melt/plastic fumes concern there?

I used a small polypropylene cereal container. The small amount of fumes drawn from the roasting chamber are very well diluted with fresh air so the gasses exhausting from the machine are only slightly warm. The cereal container does not even get warm to the touch, no problem at all. If the gasses were not so diluted I would be much more concerned for the electronics inside the machine rather than the cereal container.

Furry dice sounds like a good idea though I would recommend hanging them outside the roasting chamber.