what would your roaster look like

by **Raf** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:46 pm

Hm, it's important because I don't feel like juggling a lot of colanders or pans to cool my beans manually. I'm of the "roasting for lazies" school.

by **wang** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:15 pm

As an avid heatgun fan - wow on the rostmeister. Damn that looks pretty, but the plastic behind the drum sorta puts me off.

by **nickr** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:32 pm

I'm also looking for an alternative to my now defunct popper. The Röstmeister looks really interesting, does anyone import it into the UK and how much does it cost ?

by **zix** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:49 pm

Ian, do you know what the capacity of the Röstmeister is? It seems like it ought to be 100g or so.

by **wang** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:52 am

It says 300g, and a quick googling finds you one for E190 inc shipping within germany I think.

by **Ian** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:15 pm

I just downloaded the pdf and it looks like it is 300g. If you click on Zum Shop, they sell it for EU249 or 6 interest free instalments. Wang, where did you see it for 190?

I don't know anyone who has one - Jim Schulman would be the obvious person to ask as I think he monitors the kaffeenetz boards but he mailed me on Christmas Eve so I know he's busy with something at the moment and I don't want to disturb him.

by **wang** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:58 pm

http://www.perfektegesundheit.de/

http://www.perfektegesundheit.de/shop/p ... cts_id=993

by **Raf** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:26 pm

er, Ian, anything in those pdfs about cooling....

by **zix** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:29 pm

Well... what a nice little toy this seems to be! I still can´t find those 300g, Ian and Wang, so thanks for helping me out. Probably getting blind.
The Röstmeister sure could replace the heatgun - but it needs to be used outside to roast that much coffee. It says that in the manual too - but in other words (things like "don´t use this machine in a room with a fire detector"). With varying surrounding air temps we can forget all about those fancy pre-programmed settings, of course. Still, it would be an improvement not needing to stir beans and wield the heatgun...

by **Ian** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:34 pm

Raf wrote:er, Ian, anything in those pdfs about cooling....

There could very well be, but as it's all in German it's a bit hard to tell.

by **Ian** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:15 pm

I've just started the possibly protracted process of finding out how much the shipping is to the UK. If I find out I'll let you know.

by **Raf** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:00 pm

Found it: there's a three minute cooling cycle.

Strange thing though, they say never to use "normal roasting coffee", because it has "skins that can take fire". I wonder if they mean the coffee cherry skins, or the chaff...? Must be the cherries, right?

by **wang** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:40 pm

Chaff I think. Maybe their coffee is all wet processed and possibly processed more to loosen off the silvery fire hazard!

by **Raf** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:45 pm

That's probably it, wang.

by **zix** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:39 pm

Ahhh, chaff is a problem... I was trying to decipher that sentence too, but don't know enough Deutch. If this is really a problem, that would seriously limit the usefulness of that machine...

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