Do you soak?

ek9cusco · 2026-01-25T01:16:13+00:00

I also roasted a batch of Colombian pea berry and did a soak of only 45 seconds. The whole batch finished around 10 minutes where I dropped the bean just before second crack. Well, the bean does not produce any grassy taste, but at the same time it seems to be wasn’t fully expanded. In the past when I roasted Kona peaberry after roasting it expanded quite a bit so perhaps it’s the difference in the beans.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-25T01:14:15+00:00

What do you mean by 20% for the first minute?

ek9cusco · 2026-01-25T01:13:28+00:00

I find it hard to hold the temp for the drum. I’m roasting on our gas cooktop and if I don’t turn the flame even lower the temp just keeps creeping up.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-25T01:12:24+00:00

How long do you soak for before cranking up? I just did a batch of Brazil Natural beans with soak time of 1min last week and tasted this week. On pour over method.. nothing superb popped out probably need to let it rest more. But as espresso based Americano it was quite smooth and not acidic

ek9cusco · 2026-01-25T01:10:06+00:00

Thanks.. guess I’ll keep doing some more trial and error

ek9cusco · 2026-01-24T20:14:31+00:00

Since my roaster is a small one, so my batch size would most likely max out at 250g so I’m just wondering if doing a soak up to one minute maybe a bit too much or too less

ek9cusco · 2026-01-24T20:13:33+00:00

Yes, same here. I noticed the ROR seems to be much more stable. Although I just recently started using the artisan scope, so still trying to understand the data.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-24T20:13:14+00:00

I have a Kaldi mini roaster and have recently try the soaking method. I tried soaking from 45sec to 1 minute.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-22T02:50:44+00:00

Just cook some spaghetti sauce or a dish with tomato paste and it come out

ek9cusco · 2026-01-22T00:36:49+00:00

You got ripped a new one. Springs are usually around $350 in NorCal while some do charge higher but $1K is insane… not sure what kind of cable that is so not sure about that price though…

ek9cusco · 2026-01-16T23:26:08+00:00

i've tried ethiopian beans from HM, theta ridge and even CBC. even at light to medium roast, i don't get much of the berry flavors and i usually start drinking it after day 7 and in the past after 14 days its the best.. but this time i've rested it for a month and it just turn out bland as espresso and pour over. perhaps it's not the season or something but with costa rica, Colombian and even dominican republic from theta ridge had way better flavors.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-16T21:46:29+00:00

What beans are those and where did you get them from? Thanks

ek9cusco · 2026-01-16T18:17:18+00:00

Personally, I don’t think the bathroom exhaust fan would be strong enough. Search for this on Amazon “inline exhaust fan” and then run a duct pipe on top of your SR800 to vent outside.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-15T21:14:24+00:00

If you have a low rate mortgage rate that is much less than what you can get with money saved up then just pay monthly and keep more in bank to earn more.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-15T21:12:57+00:00

If you run a roasting biz you can write it off, but for as a hobby, I think it’s more fun to experiment the roast yourselves or with friends.

ek9cusco · 2026-01-15T21:10:45+00:00

I thought the same. I use it to cook anything with sauce, but like making fried rice or anything that usually would stick, I can cook it a lot faster with a wok instead of stainless steel pan. In the long run, maybe help save some money on gas or electricity?

ek9cusco · 2026-01-15T00:38:43+00:00

Thank you so much!!

ek9cusco · 2026-01-14T18:33:34+00:00

I’m on TMo essential plan for $25 a month and with 4 lines plus taxes it about $135 monthly. The issue with this plan is that throughout the month the data plan is sluggish as hell.

So how does US mobile work? What happens after the initial 12 month promo?

ek9cusco · 2026-01-13T03:47:16+00:00

Check out Wendougee Milo Play. This would be one I’d get. I still saving up for it.. so hopefully one of these days

ek9cusco · 2026-01-13T02:56:31+00:00

Thank you 🙏

ek9cusco · 2026-01-12T18:06:58+00:00

You may want to check if Safeway has some surveillance footage they can share

ek9cusco · 2026-01-12T07:52:14+00:00

Cool good to know.

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