This is a perfectly valid point of view, and for the first few months, I seriously doubted I could ever match a decent roaster. Now I can make exquisite coffee. Meh coffee too, don't get me wrong. But the more I learn, the more I can trust my instincts, the more I'm able to unlock some potential by tweaking temperature or time into 1C. Some beans still elude me (I had a Sidamo that smelled heavenly when green but that I could never roast properly), but it's, I think, true for most roasters except the very best. For me it's the ultimate step into complete coffee obsession. You need to truly know your beans to roast them properly. And then I can still play with grind size and temperature and pressure and time when pulling shots to make the best out of them.
I image if ventilated safely and well it likely gives off a rewarding aroma too?
Once the smoke is gone from the kitchen, the smell of freshly roasted coffee lingering in the house for the rest of the day... Man this is just heaven, makes you crave a nice cup instantly.
Add a bit of oil as a "thermal paste"/interface between the adapter and the pot. I use a tiny frying pan as an adapter for my Turkish cevze and it's night and day.
Funny, I bought the same model yesterday on a clearance sale 😅
Still figuring it out too, I might use it as a travel brewer next to my Flair and/or my wife's Aeropress.
As an aside I tested all the parts with a magnet and it's full stainless, so you can thoroughly clean it with PulyCaff or Cafiza unlike Aluminium ones.
(Ok I know it's super normal and traditional in some places like Ethiopia, but super fresh beans are horrible it's like licking an ashtray, you need to rest them at least a few days/weeks)
Is it really worse tho? A single build, against a single runtime, free from distro specificities, packaged by the devs themselves instead of offloading the work on distro maintainers?
So is your setup in your house? I understand there’s quite a bit of smoke and it can really smell your house out if you do it indoors.
I live in an apartment so I don't have much choice. There's indeed a ton of smoke, however with the kitchen window open and the door closed, it't rather contained.
Do you let the coffee degas a bit before you brew with it? What’s your preferred brew method?
Yes. 24h degas + 1-3 weeks aging. I almost exclusively brew espresso.
You said you do 4x 250g batches per session. I assume that’s 250g of raw green beans going into the roaster… what’s the yield per batch coming out at the end?
Yes. 250g of green beans yield about 215-220g of roasted coffee.
How do you source your green beans?
Online. I might be interested with alternatives in the EU.
I'm pretty happy with the transparencies tbh. Although on mine, there seems to be two sides, one that gives a fuzzy dirty effect with a lot of stray toner around the actual print (looks like static), and the other side that gives perfectly crisp prints. Unfortunately I can't really tell the sides apart.
Apart from that small speck of dust that prevented the transfer at the top left of the logo, the sheet came out perfectly clean, the totality of the toner was transferred to the dial. For PCB transfers where you could probably keep the sheet intact (I had to cut mine to fit between the applied indices), that would also mean the sheet would be almost indefinitely reusable.
I 100% agree with you, a professionally made dial is a work of art and should be absolutely perfect at any magnification. This is just a fun, cheap summer watch project for my own enjoyment ;)
The best looking alternative would have been to have the logo made by electroforming. They look perfect and very professional. Unfortunately the MOQs are usually quite large and therefore expensive, I couldn't justify spending half the price of this project just on a logo (even if I had enough spare logos for several lifetimes).
It's a tool first and foremost. If you're professionally using a power drill all day everyday, you'll want a very good one that's powerful, reliable and comfortable to use. If you professionally type all day everyday, you're absolutely entitled to use a keyboard that perfectly fits your preferences in terms of feel, comfort, feedback and layout.
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It's stainless steel, so Puly Caff.