stevenzaat wrote:Simon,
Congratulations with your new Hottop, as a master Roaster/Blender the members of this site should provide you one. Big advantage for me is that I can easily follow your profile from now!!
Enjoy it as I do two times a week. My Hottop has been open with very screw taken from his place, so I am open for every modficarion.
Best regards,
Steven
I think the honours of master roaster/blender have to go to Steve, being our resident pro on this front. I just post more junk on this than others.
Like I said, it remains to see if it is a viable purchase. At the moment the location I had in mind to use it in the kitchen is an issue as I have the choice of being able to see in the window and have the smoke vent pointing at the cabinet on the wll full of glasses, not ideal. Or I can point the vent away from this and vaguely towards the window, but then I'd have to lean over the very hot machine to see in the window.
Obviously I can roast outside in the summer, but there is a problem in the winter hence trying to find a kitchen alternative location. I do have some flexible metal "elephant's trunk" style tubing which I use with the Imex, which I may well be able to fit over the Hottop vent and so run the fumes out of the window which would increase the location possibilities, and I can keep the machine in the shed when not in use. I will try my hardest to persuade my other half round
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It is a very nice bit of kit, and really looks the bussiness. I am surprised to find the vent fan has plastic blades though with all that heat.
I turned on the machine briefly to make sure it was OK from the postage (no roasting yet until I decide whether to keep it), and was stunned how quiet it is, which I think is one of its biggest advantages over an air roaster.