500g Automatic Coffee Roaster Machine for Home Use with Smoke Filter and Straw Collector

Sin duda un muy tostador de buena calidad, para unos tal vez un poco caro, pero sin duda que vale completamente la pena, yo lo compre para un emprendimiento de una cafeteria, para tostar mi propio cafe, afortunadamente el negocio prospero muy rapido y se me quemo el tostador en 1 mes exacto, tostaba 1 a 2kg por dia, pero dandole su uso domestico que es pera lo que es, vale mucho la pena.

It took me two roasts to get it right. The first one burned the beans. Reviewing the instructions didn’t help a terrific amount, so I reviewed You Tube to get more of a hands on sense of how this roaster behaves. The second roast worked out very well! This beats my Gene Cafe by a country mile. Better more even roasts and a greater capacity.

I've been a home roaster for about 25 years. I've used hot air corn popper, the iRoast (i-roar), Gene Cafe and now this skywalker clone machine. This machine has some quirks but I've adapted it to be a very capable roaster. I'm using a TC4 Arduino interface with Artisan Scope open source software. This machine is great for a diy maker/hacker. I have full computer control of this roaster and can better track and reproduce roast profiles. The included controller works okay, but the user interface is confusing and takes practice. The auto-roast (mode 3) over-roasted a few batches, so I went with the computer interface instead. It makes a good bit of smoke, and I use it outside on a patio with one of the included vent ducts bent into an "L" shape. I don't use the electric cooler/filter. I made a few adjustments which help resolve some shortcomings of this machine. People complain of a few left over burned beans from previous batch -- that the drum does not fully empty when dumping. When I dump beans, I put a small 1-inch strip of wood under the back of the machine which tilts the end up so all the beans empty when I dump beans at the end of the roast. I keep the roaster on a 1-inch board which lifts up the machine and allows the cooling track to pull out easily. I put thick tape under the edge of the cooling drawer so the bottom metal sharp edge doesn't scratch my table. When cleaning after roasting, I use a small shop-vac vacuum to suck out the internal chaff bits, and use the vacuum exhaust to blow into the machine while vacuuming the sides. I get it really clean this way. The cooling fan works alright, but for complete bean cooling I remove the metal cooling tray with beans and place it on top of a small 8-inch round fan tilted to blow "up" onto the tray. The drum is single speed, which works well. It seems to require about 150 grams minimum load so the beans will touch the internal RTD sensor to register the bean temperature. The fan and heat settings adjust in 10% steps, so each has 0 - 100% settings. The separate "cool" mode turns on fans for the cooling drawer and is simple on/off button. The heating element seems to be an IR halogen tube. While it's roasting I can see bits of chaff stick to and burn on the bulb. I think it might reduce bulb life, but it's working now. The heater is **inside** the drum. Beans get radiant and convection heating which is PWM controlled. Sometime soon, I plan to replace the RTD Bean Temperature sensor (BT) with a thermocouple. I also plan to add an extra sensor for Environment Temperature (ET) which the unit does not have. There are plenty of forums and projects about hacking this style of roaster. Overall I'm very happy with the capability of this machine, and look forward to learning more about the craft of home roasting my own coffee beans.

This is the only roaster I found that has all of the features a professional roaster would have, yet at a very affordable price: - Drum Roaster - Dropping beans mechanism - Cooling tray that can be removed for an easy beans transfer. - Manual control of the electrical heat source and fan - Smoke suppressor (that does a phenomenal job) as well as two pipes that also come with the roster in case you want to use those instead. I have experience great customer service so far. Make sure to get the model that has the quartz tube (comes already with the newly manufactured roasters), otherwise you will have some burned beans in the roast. It has automated modes for beginners. You can still choose to do your roast manually or in an assisted mode where you control when to stop the roast. The automated modes are a bit fast but still do a good job. The end result tends to be a bit darker than what you are aiming for, however, this can be controlled if you are roasting in a manual mode or assisted mode. Make sure to lead the roaster with at closer to 350g-400g to get best results. Loading it with 100g for sample roasting would make the roast very quick. Best roaster I found for its price. Recommended.

Es una maravilla de aparato, lo mejor de todo es que el fabricante está al pendiente de los daños o defectos de fabricación, tienen muy buena disposición y una muy buena atención, me enviaron refacciones nuevas sin costo!! Gracias!!