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Fake news. We've made many improvements and are arguably currently building the best coffee roasters ever for the production of speciality coffee. Historically, build quality has always been very much less of an issue than sale prices that attracted vast numbers of inexperienced owners. Clean...

Roasting light is relatively easy. Roasting dark well is much tougher because chemistry is most reactive at heat and the roast moves much faster between 420F and 430F than it does between 390F and 410F. It takes real skill to preserve acidity and sweetness at darker roast levels.

Get a Huky and watch all of our videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfpTQQtvqLhHG_GWhk3Xp4A?view_as=subscriber The first thing you need to learn about is coffee and what you really need to learn about coffee is a tryer and airflow control.You can spend a bunch more money on professional...

We worked with AQE to develop this: https://millcityroasters.com/shop/roaster-accessories/smokemaster/

Air Quality Engineering is in Minneapolis and we helped them put this together for coffee roasting: https://millcityroasters.com/shop/roaster-accessories/smokemaster/ It's a good option for a lot of people, but you might want to watch the other video before you start shopping for a scent...

Your burner is programmed with a purge cycle that won't allow instant ignition. You'll have to really game the timing of cycling the burner at times that won't affect the roast too badly.

The Ghibli has a pre-mix power burner. That means it has a fan on the burner that injects air and gas in different proportions relative to the desired heat level. This means your roaster exhaust and burner are sometimes interacting with each other in highly unexpected ways. Many roaster...

The 30 amp appliance cord is running to the heating element(s) and the orange cord is running the fan. You should really get someone to inspect the machine before you plug it in.

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Only because of the square sheet metal enclosure, it looks like an old Probat G series machine. Or a heavily modified G series. Or a copy of a G series machine. The offset trier, cooling tray configuration, and control panel look a little different, but Probat has made machines for 150 years...

Ensoluna, I think John is probably a pretty good guy and passionate about quality. Ego? I cannot judge, but I greatly admire the fact that John uses his name and his company name in his posts. The next time I'm in Salt Lake and looking for a good cup of coffee, Caffe d'bolla will be my first...

Probably because brew quality is largely subjective and, although your posts are doubtlessly well meaning, they are also frequently perceived as alienating and condescending. Discipline without love is torture. If you want to lead, meet people where they are at and share with kindness and...

The Nova 820 is listed with a flame sensing device called a "thermopile" that creates a small electrical charge when it's hot. Your 2nd stage solenoid may not be opening because the thermopile is not working or is not hot enough. It has to be positioned directly in the flame of the pilot to...

Don't know, but Mill City just bought one. :coffee: Roast Magazine is terrific. Maybe we'll do a book review. Steve