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Post by brelto85 on Feb 20, 2019 16:01:38 GMT -5
Hi at all, From one years i'm studing (forum, chocolate alchemy, chocolate course ecc..) the bean to bar world and i'm producing several test with this "roasting machine" Now i would like to buy a machine little more professional After several research i found in the KALDI FORTIS roaster a good compromise quality price There's someone that can tell me if that Kaldi Fortis roaster is able to roast a cocoa beans? thanks so much Alberto |
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Post by Ben on Feb 20, 2019 17:29:04 GMT -5
Hi Alberto. You may need to slow the drum down, but it should have no problem roasting a few pounds of cacao. It's pretty expensive for the amount of cacao you'll be able to roast at a time, but it looks like a good machine that should last a good long time.
Compared to a Behmor, this looks more 'professional' and has the benefits of not having a built-in temperature probe, and not having to remove the drum to load and unload. You'll also have finer level control of your roasting profiles than you can achieve with a Behmor.
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Post by brelto85 on Feb 20, 2019 17:54:15 GMT -5
thank Ben for reply!!
It is precisely for these aspects that I have opted for this roaster. I try to understand if it is possible to slow down the drum
It is also the only one that I can easily buy from Italy (through ebay/amazon)
Do you have any other semi-professional 1kg roaster that costs up to 1500/2000 euros?
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Post by Ben on Feb 21, 2019 14:18:15 GMT -5
I don't know of any other professional roasters in that price range. Everything else is more of a home roaster, which isn't to say they're not good. The behmor is the obvious one, and one that many use to roast cacao.
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Post by brelto85 on Feb 22, 2019 4:30:53 GMT -5
I know but i want to have a total control on roast profile and the behmor hasn't Another solution that i found is the Allio Roaster, more expensive but 1Kg of capacity PS: Also I have written semi-professional but I'm fine for now also something amateur but that works well. I would like something more professional than this one that I currently have |
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Post by Ben on Feb 22, 2019 9:43:37 GMT -5
The Behmor does have manual control so you can have more control over your roast profile--you don't have to use the pre-programmed profiles. The main issues are that you need to hack it to add a bean temperature probe and that the manual control is not as fine-grained as you may want.
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Post by krizzstroganof on Jun 30, 2020 8:43:59 GMT -5
brelto85 did you buy the Kaldi Fortis? Did you solve the rpm of the drum? ...and if you bought it, how is the experience in total?
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Post by krizzstroganof on Jul 15, 2020 11:56:14 GMT -5
brelto85 is mentioning Aillio Bullet coffee roaster, is there someone out there using this? What is your experience?
Aillio Bullet seems like a really interesting roaster, good capacity, induction heating, compact and some nice temperature reading tracking all your data. From what a read it's mostly conductive heating which makes me a bit thoughtful. Any thought on conductive vs convective heating in a drum roaster like this?
cheers,
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Post by brelto85 on Jul 26, 2020 12:02:34 GMT -5
brelto85 did you buy the Kaldi Fortis? Did you solve the rpm of the drum? ...and if you bought it, how is the experience in total? Hi, no, I'm using the oven right now. |
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