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BT Probe switch for FZ-94
After Tije made a custom BT probe for the Coffee-Tech FZ-94 roaster which fits in the spot of the trier, I have been using that probe almost exclusively because it shows the BT better during the...
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Gothot's La Coronita centrifugal roaster
This morning I chanced upon footage and pictures of a vintage roaster that looks like a machine out of an eighties sci-fi movie:One of these machines was built in 1983 and sold by SHP Food Machinery in...
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La Pavoni lever pin roller upgrade
On the Facebook group for La Pavoni owners, Imsung Yoo recently showed how he replaced the lever pin roller with three small bearings and two washers.When I asked Tije de Jong if he could find a...
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Artisan adding Fuji PXG4 PID to the Coffee-Tech FZ-94 roaster
3 heater switches and 3 PIDs on Coffee-Tech FZ-94 frontPlenty of ControlsEver since Artisan and the Coffee-Tech FZ-94 joined forces, a lot of communication and control is already available to...
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Artisan, Fuji PXG-4 and the Coffee-Tech FZ-94: auto-tuning with beans
1kg of beans rolling inside the FZ-94Last weekend we added a Fuji PXG-4 PID to the FZ-94 roaster, Marko Luther provided the configuration of Artisan to facilitate this and we allowed the Fuji to...
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Roaster Round Table at Coffee Consulate
Coffee Consulate by nightOn March 10, 2017 the international Rösterstammtisch was hosted by Steffen Schwarz of the Coffee Consulate in Mannheim. Ram Evgi from Coffee-Tech in Israel also attended and he...
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Some video footage of Ram E. Evgi of Coffee-Tech demonstrating his wood fires roaster at the Coffee Consulate in Mannheim, 10 March 2017. My iPhone video was edited by Roemer Overdiep remotely...
View ArticleBjørg and Trish: recommended podcast
For her recent Coffee Awesome podcast, Bjørg Brend Laird talked with Trish Rothgeb who started out as a barista way back in 1986 when in California it was possible to make enough money as a barista to...
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Power slider for Coffee-Tech FZ-94: Artisan expanded
Slider low for modest heat radiation (illustration by Tije de Jong)---Slider high for intense heat radiation (illustration by Tije de Jong)ON or OFFIn the default configuration, each of the three...
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PID settings on the Tiny Fluid Bed Roaster
by Tije de JongTrial and errorA few days ago I made a first successful attempt to improve the PID settings on the roaster.I’m certainly not an expert in this: I have only a faint idea of how a PID...
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Variable pre-infusion pressure works well on the L-R
Today the variable pre-infusion pressure on the Londinium L-R came in very handy.I aim my roast to be consistently of about the same roast intensity, measured in a roast color acquired over a certain...
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Cupping Central American beans
A wide choice of recent crops of Central American beans were cupped this afternoon at Evermore Thee Koffie Chocolade, Coolhaven 158, 3024 AL Rotterdam. Importer: The Coffee Quest Coffee Imports.
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Mandheling Roast on FZ-94: Sliding Along the Roast Curve
In March last year I wrote about roasting Indonesian beans from Sumatra. These Mandheling beans needed a lot of sorting before the roast but the result was delightful.This year I bought a 60kg bag of...
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Javier Reto upgrading an FZ94
Last week I got an email from fellow roaster Javier Reto who purchased an early 2016 FZ-94 and is currently upgrading it to work fully with Artisan like my machine.He has managed to speed up...
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Arnoud Kruiver about his Mandheling roast profile development
(As a follow up to my blog about developing a roast profile for the Indonesia Sumatra Mandheling beans, Arnoud Kruiver of Het Hoofdkwartier and fellow user of the Artisan Roast Log software agreed to...
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Peter de Goede roasting Mandheling
Another member of the roaster group currently working with the same Indonesia Sumatra Mandheling crop is Peter de Goede. He uses a FIR300 roaster, also connected to Artisan.I found a clip of another...
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FZ94 and the Fuji PXG4, some pictures for Javier
Javier, a fellow FZ94 owner in the USA, has decided he also wants to add the Fuji PXG4 PID to his roaster, as described in a recent blog.He is ordering the exact same type of PID from Fuji in the US...
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