Imex CR-100/Cafe Rosto owners, need your experience
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 4:33 pm
Hello.
I own a new CR-100 as my first roaster for about six months and have a quite mixed impressions aboit it.
I've never had problems with low heat and long roast as the current at my place is realy high. Counterwise, I've always been confused with too brief roast my Imex tended to perform - 6-8min.
I realy don't remember how good were my first tries on roasting. Not really good I think. Then I started to roast outside with ambient temperature about 3 to 5.C. The results were just fantastic! So I decided to use a voltage regulator with my roaster to lower roast temperature like I did on my "winter" roast sesions.
I did so - aded voltage regulator. Now I can lower current from 235V to 185V.
I tried 5 or 10 roasts. Started ar 235 and lowered to 205, 195, 185 on 3-4min of roast until coffee beans were of desire color. What can i say, my results varied from mediocre to awfull! My english is too weak to describe the "flavours", but what I can say for sure is all my coffees had coffee color, had a flavour of something roasted, had weak body and any different coffies tasted similarly bad - flat, tasteless, etc.
So please, if somebody using the same roaster please share with me your experience on using it - roast profiles, timings, temperatures. I'm going to try my IR-thermometer to control roasting, hopefully, it will help.
Other model air-roaster users, your suggestiong are also highly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
I own a new CR-100 as my first roaster for about six months and have a quite mixed impressions aboit it.
I've never had problems with low heat and long roast as the current at my place is realy high. Counterwise, I've always been confused with too brief roast my Imex tended to perform - 6-8min.
I realy don't remember how good were my first tries on roasting. Not really good I think. Then I started to roast outside with ambient temperature about 3 to 5.C. The results were just fantastic! So I decided to use a voltage regulator with my roaster to lower roast temperature like I did on my "winter" roast sesions.
I did so - aded voltage regulator. Now I can lower current from 235V to 185V.
I tried 5 or 10 roasts. Started ar 235 and lowered to 205, 195, 185 on 3-4min of roast until coffee beans were of desire color. What can i say, my results varied from mediocre to awfull! My english is too weak to describe the "flavours", but what I can say for sure is all my coffees had coffee color, had a flavour of something roasted, had weak body and any different coffies tasted similarly bad - flat, tasteless, etc.
So please, if somebody using the same roaster please share with me your experience on using it - roast profiles, timings, temperatures. I'm going to try my IR-thermometer to control roasting, hopefully, it will help.
Other model air-roaster users, your suggestiong are also highly appreciated.
Thanks a lot!