Sudden Coffee Smoothie Booster
Take two bananas, 250ml of milk, one tube of Sudden Coffee, a tray of ice cubes, go BRRZZZ and BAM! you get a low calorie high energy coffee boost.Sudden Coffee Smoothie Booster from Frans Goddijn on...
View ArticleLittle Fluid Bed Coffee Roaster
Tije de Jong, Jan van der Weel and I are thinking of a small simple affordable-for-all fluid bed home roaster for coffee. This is a first new prototype. Video by Jan van der WeelAlso...
View ArticleCoffee-Tech FZ-94 at Artisan HQ
The Torrefattore FZ-94 pro lab coffee roaster and Artisan At the Artisan head quarters, we try a setup with the Torrefattore FZ-94 pro lab roaster. For the software used, see...
View ArticleCoffee-Tech FZ94 clip by Roemer Overdiep
Impressions of the Coffee-Tech FZ-94 lab coffee roaster. It works beautifully with the (free) Artisan software (see https://github.com/artisan-roaster-scope/artisan) by Marko Luther. For Coffee-Tech,...
View ArticleLab Tech Trade Show
Utrecht, 15 June 2016A brief impression of the small trade show for lab technology business in the Utrecht Jaarbeurs convention center.
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Beans & Grinds
Beans that didn't make the cut and leftover grinds can still be useful.If I grond a little too much, I dump some on the mound and the color difference tells me something about the roast. Beans that...
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Coffee cup collector?
A new one has arrived.On the roaster in cool evening lightOn the L1-P lever espresso machineOn the table
View ArticleAcaia's _H2O_ feature
Yesterday evening, mr Rex Tseng, CEO of Acaia, manufacturer of highly specialized scales for baristas, came to visit. We enjoyed some espressos from Cameroon Boyo washed Asuchuf village java arabica...
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Vibiemme in Vintage Nirvana
John, a fellow roaster living nearby, was asked by a local barista to repair her Vibiemme two group E61 machine. It resides inside an old bus that has been turned into a mobile cafe and she noticed...
View ArticleLinea Mini, first shot & flow
Jan van der Weel and I are reviewing the La Marzocco Linea Mini this week (to be published in an upcoming issue of KTC magazine) and here we extract a first espresso, using the double basket included...
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Roasting Coffee with Sunlight
See also:http://dailycoffeenews.com/2016/07/22/video-roasting-by-the-power-of-the-sun-or-not/Tije wondered if it would be possible or even easy to roast with sunlight and a magnifying glass. As a boy...
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Vacuum cleaning the Coffee-Tech FZ-94 Coffee Roaster easily
After a number of roasts, some charred debris collects in the space below the drum so we need to vacuum clean this frequently but carefully so as not to damage the heating elements. Poking around with...
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The new Sanremo app
At a new coffee / barber / motocycle place called Looiedet, I met again with Maarten Meijer of Sanremo Nederland and I had a chance to finally play with the new big commercial Sanremo two group machine...
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Las Delicias beans from Guatemala
A small specialty coffee roaster near Amsterdam, Koffiebranderij Het Hoofdkwartier, offered a number of nano roasters and homeroasters the opportunity to acquire green beans from a completely new...
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Coffee-Tech FZ-94 working seamlessly with Artisan
Recently, we received the opportunity to get an FZ-94 lab roaster and see how this roasting machine could work seamlessly with Artisan. An inspired back-and-forth between Marko Luther on the Artisan...
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First successful curve controlled FZ-94 roast with Artisan
(See also: my previous blog and a copy of this post on the Artisan blog.)Roastmasters working with a PID like the Fuji PXG4 could in the past already enjoy the "autopilot" feature of Artisan, making...
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Expand the FZ-94 Coffee Lab Roaster
See full text here on the Artisan blog:http://tinyurl.com/fz94play
View ArticleCurve Controlled Roast on the FZ-94, example video 1
Background Roast part1 from Frans Goddijn on Vimeo.
View ArticleTiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster by Tije and Jan
Jan sourced a very cheap blower (€ 11) to start with, Tije developed and constructed the mechanics, Jan built together and programmed the TC4 / SSR electronics. On his blog, Jan will specify exactly...
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Complete "Curve controlled" Coffee Roast on the FZ-94 with Artisan
The video below may be a little boring for some because I did not cut footage from it to skip any part that may be uneventful. Do slide back and forth at will to see / ignore any part you want.I...
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