Too Much Coffee

Today I roasted 200g of 8:1 Colombia/Kenya in the oven, 170g of Old Brown Sulawesi with the heatgun, 100g of Ethiopian Moka and then 90g of Old Java in the popper.
In hindsight, I can´t decide which is worst: that I did four batches with three different roast methods during one afternoon while taking care of three kids (no, I wasn´t the only parent during all that time; the heatgun roast was done with wifey at home) and making dinner? Or that I just remembered the bean kinds, the blend proportions and the weights of those four batches by heart?
Most of all, is this really normal behaviour for a coffee-head, or have I crossed the borderline? Talk about long-time effects of caffeine addiction... Do you people do things like this?

Sounds entirely normal and balanced to me. Roasting is what you do inbetween making coffee! If I couldn't roast, I'd end up drinking far too much!
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It's 1h30 in the morning and I have to battle to not go and brew me a fine harrar espresso cup. This can't be normal... Or can it ?

Definitely not normal...
Now if you said Yirg and weren't on funny foreign time, I might have agreed with you
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Nightly roasting desires! I have them too, but my body usually tells me I'd only trip on something and spill the beans...

I was having troble with a cuban bean a while back, and thought it may have been my imex, so I tried a load in the oven. Set it to 230c its fan assisted so hotspots shouldn't happen. I didnt think it was too bad for a first go a bit burnt though. If i was gooing to do it again I'd try a different shape of roasting tin as they were a bit more burnt on the side nearest the fan. With practice 'd put money on it that it would give the imex a run for its money.

I got an oven roast tutorial coming up in a while, quink. steves is helping me to make it better, and when it passes his discerning eye (in a week or two, after I edited it a couple of times) it can be made official.

So I should be expecting an email soon then zix?

Yes! It will belong to TMC and its members, if you want it.

Yes please zix, very much. Send me the text, preferably with some pictures, and we'll put it up on the site.

Deal! When it is complete.

zix wrote:I got an oven roast tutorial coming up in a while, quink. steves is helping me to make it better, and when it passes his discerning eye (in a week or two, after I edited it a couple of times) it can be made official.

Will be looking forward to it!