Re: Question about drum roaster design

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:20:40 -0500, "DougW"
<post.replies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The question is do you want the outside of the bean to heat radically
>faster than the core, or do you want the whole bean to slowly come up
>to temperature. A bit like grilling a burger. Too hot and you get
>an uncooked center and burned outside.

Well, there's a lot of 2nd hand, container sized, vertical drum, 3
minute roasters out there, going cheap; since they were all the rage
20 years ago, and now even Folgers has given up on them now (probably
they don't work so well with Viet robusta). Unfortunately, my
apartment is too small ;-)

My question was more theoretical; and I was pretty sure some pro
roaster somewhere had worked up a variable speed drum ("I haven't
rebuilt my roaster in the last few weeks, I need to do something
quick.")

--
jim schulman
<jim_schulman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.

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