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New version of FZ94, some details
Lukas Kubiny, a fellow FZ94 user sent me a few pictures of his brand new FZ94.It has a few details that are different to mine from spring of last year 2016. The air inlets that are on the lower left...
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Bonobeans
When visiting Bono Gargolov and his family last week, we exchanged some of our roasts. I have just finished the last shot of some exquisite beans roasted by Bono Gargolov with his Probat& Artisan...
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Beans from Lukás
Lukas Kubiny, a fellow FZ94 owner, also fellow Artisan user in Slovakia, sent me a beautiful gift box with a few samples of his roasts and I can't wait to taste them in the morning!Thanks so much Lukas.
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Fuji's PXG4 discontinued, replaced by PXF4
Fuji has stopped producing the PXG4 unit that I have been using so far as a PID device and it will be replaced by the PXF4:The PXF4 looks very good as well and it even has a nice USB connection:And it...
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Tasuku's FZ94 with manual heating power control
A month ago, Tasuku Yamane from Japan's Coffee Works Plus received another new variation of the FZ94 from Coffee-Tech. This one can manually limit the power going to the heating elements, from 100%...
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The Four Daltons
COMPAK models R120, E8, E6 and E5 lined up next to LONDINIUM L-RMore about this setup soon.
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Roasting wet hulled Sumatra Mandheling -- a few profile snapshots
In March I purchased a 60kg bag of "Specialty prep Sumatra, wet hulled mandheling" for € 627. Green bean moisture 9,9%Profiles logged using Artisan, moisture measured with the Wile device, roast color...
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Gabor Kormendi's FZ94
There's another FZ94 owner in town! In this case, in Budapest. Gabor Kormendi bought the FZ94 on display at the World of Coffee conference that's happening this week:It seems that the Coffee-Tech staff...
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New VST 25(!)g filter basket
Packed with another order that was delivered here tonight, Vince Fedele of VSTlabs added one of the new series of 25g filter baskets that they are now offering. Can't wait to try it out in the morning!
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"Hands Off" roast on FZ94 by Artisan
Using the "alarms" functionality of Artisan, one can repeat a successful roast on the CoffeeTech FZ94 roaster. Artisan pushes the buttons and moves the sliders to regulate airflow and heater energy at...
View ArticleMichael Wong's FZ94 and Avirnaki
There's another new FZ94 owner in the growing landscape of FZ9 machines on the world. Welcome Michael Wong!Michael bought the complete FZ94 & Avirnaki set at the recent SCAA2017 event in Seattle...
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Tije's La Pavoni Cup Warmer (and temp monitor)
Tije de Jong added an optional set of cup warmers on his La Pavoni cooling fins, a temperature probe inserted in the ring and a temperature display:Probe (center) inserted into cooling ring against...
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Tije widened a LONDINIUM portafilter to accommodate 25g VST basket
Vince Fedele of VSTlabs sent me a big new VST 25g capacity filter basket that almost fit my LONDINIUM portafilter and Tije de Jong made the rim along the bottom of the portafilter a little thinner and...
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Mandheling can be a handful
Two years ago I posted about an order of Indonesian Sumatra Mandheling beans that were quite a handful to cull before roasting.They can be very messy but deliciously rewarding beans to work with and...
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Small grinder Mammoth shot
Pulling a 40g shot of high extraction quality espresso using 25g of grinds from the small COMPAK E5 grinder, the VSTlabs 25g precision basket, the Londinium distribution tool and the Londinium L-R...
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Tije's Roasting Room
Tije used to roast in his tool space / workshop but he has a new and beautiful space to roast now, on a high room with a view in one of the oldest parts of Amsterdam, one floor down from his loft.Tije...
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Delicious Mandheling
A few weeks ago I wrote how the latest shipment of 60kg of Mandheling turned out to be quite a handful to prepare for roasting and even after roasting to take out the beans that never made it far...
View ArticleFZ94 Vacuum Cleaning: Click On - Click Off
A year ago I wrote how I modified the spacers of plate covering the air inlet triangles on the front of my Cofee-Tech FZ94 roaster.Last week, Tije came up with a much smarter and even simpler method of...
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Coffee article in TeX users publication
Snapshots of my article, written in the spring of 2016 for the BachoTeX meeting in Poland, recently published in the MAPS magazine of NTG inThe Netherlands.Marko Luther sent me a comment:Of course...
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