hot and bothered

Here it is, my new roaster in action. Nine minutes into a batch of the Tanzanian blackburn estate baby. This was my third 8oz batch in three days and I am now up to my ass in coffee. 

I could invite over a dozen Cheerleaders  with a penchant for caramel machiatos and throw a full blown coffee orgy and everyone would go away happy and jazzed. 

Anyway I definitely made enough of the jazz juice to pass around and no longer have to hoard my precious beans from my family and co-workers. 

Coffee for Everyone! Huzzah!

In my three days of experimenting, I have notice quite a few differences between the Behmor and the Nesco Roasters...

The Sound 

While the Nesco is like watching a porn on your lcd computer screen with loud shitty speakers, the Behmor is like listening to that same porn with one of those high class Bose Speakers while watching it on your crappy flip phone. Hearing every moan and grunt, in perfectly clarity, but not really getting a good view of the show. Using the Nesco, which can drown out Edith Bunker getting it good and hard "OOOH ARCHIEEE!", I do not think I ever really heard that first Crack and depended on the lound second crack to know it was time to hit that cool button. In the Behmor you can hear it loud and clear so now I can listen to "All in the Family: the lost episode"as i cook my Beans.

The Control

Ohh so many Buttons to push! i just love it. On the Nesco All you get is a timer, now I got all kinds of stuff to keep track of.  Although, I still need some time to grasp the whole "profile" thing. 

The Type

Now I am old school. The Behmor 1600 is a drum roaster (albeit fused with a toaster oven) while the Nesco uses the more modern hot air convection cooking method. Drum roasting was how its been done for years and there is something about the taste and the overall tactile feel that appeals to me. 

And Of Course...

The Size

I know that its how you use it, but when it comes to batches of roasted beans, I believe that the bigger the better. Now I will never have to resort to outside coffee because the measly 5 ounces that I roasted could not last the weekend. I can roast a full LB in one sitting now. Huzzah! Of course, that also means that if i screw a batch up , I screw up a whole pound of beans. It also means that my apartment now smells twice as "burny" when i do roast. Even though the Behmor has a smoke suppression apparatus (which my GF's ass needs cause its soo hot), some still gets released and I even had to run and turn off the smoke alarm which was blaring in bedroom (it also happens everytime my GF undresses). I am probably breathing in a lot of CO, which bad for brain, but me think me is ok.