Advise Please: Experimenting with different roasting strategies

scottishscott

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Hey all, I'm new on this forum but, have been testing out roasting a little while. What would be the ideal minimum that you should use to test different roasting strategies?
 

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Minimum what? Charge weight? If so, it all depends on the capacity of your roaster...
Sorry for that. I should have been clearer on it. What I meant to say was, instead of say roasting 1 pound and finding it distasteful, would say enough beans to make a cup give the same results as a pound? Will the same timing of the smaller batch translate to the largerer batches?
 

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Sorry for that. I should have been clearer on it. What I meant to say was, instead of say roasting 1 pound and finding it distasteful, would say enough beans to make a cup give the same results as a pound? Will the same timing of the smaller batch translate to the largerer batches?

Are you thinking of trying to roast just enough beans to make a single cup of coffee??
 

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That or less than a pound batches to experiment with without wasting a bunch.


What kind of roaster are you using?

I don't recall anyone on this Forum writing about roasting less than a pound at a time, (unless they're using a pop corn maker), but maybe someone has given it a try and they will share their experience with you.

However it works out, you still need to plan on "wasting" a lot of coffee beans as you go through the process of learning how to roast coffee. There is no getting around it.

~Rose
 
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