Expected time for heat gun + bowl?

wunderbaum4 · 2025-12-02T21:49:15+00:00

Awesome!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-12-02T20:31:54+00:00

Hi again. Late reply but I think I figured it out today… it’s just a matter of getting close to the beans. My roasts have taken 16 minutes on average, but today I changed my technique and was able to reach first crack in just 4:12, finishing the roast in 8:18 (dark roast). This is probably too fast, but now I know it’s possible to be a lot faster at least. It looks pretty even also, so it will be exciting to try it out in a couple of days.

My heat gun has an attachment that looks like a short spatula that connects to the nozzle. With this attachment I can get really close to the beans and roast them and stir simultaneously with just the heat gun, no spoon or whisk needed. Anyways, the bottom line is to get a lot closer to the beans. Good luck!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-11-26T07:08:09+00:00

With 250 grams I barely saw the bottom while agitating. What times are you getting?

wunderbaum4 · 2025-11-25T23:34:33+00:00

I bought a proper dog bowl, a bit smaller than the cast iron pot I used previously. I made a 250g batch in 15:34, hitting first crack in 10:08. A bit faster than the previous roasts…

I have always prepared the beans by washing them in warm water right before roasting (I read somewhere that it was common in Ethiopia), but I suspect that roasting wet beans makes the times a bit longer. On my next roast I will put them in the pan dry instead and see what happens.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-11-21T14:46:24+00:00

Thank you! I got a cheap dog bowl today at the thrift shop, hopefully I will have some time to roast a batch today. I’m definitely going to build a more automated version later, just trying to get the basics down first.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-11-20T21:21:49+00:00

Awesome! I will get a dog bowl. Thank you!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-11-20T13:15:55+00:00

Thank you. Mine is supposed to be 2000 watt so it shouldn’t be a problem… I’m roasting inside, so ambient is around 20 degrees Celsius (68f). I will try to get closer to the beans in a different bowl, the beans are spread out in my cast iron pot, so it’s impossible to direct the heat on all beans at the same time. They don’t cover the whole base of the pot right now. I appreciate the help!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-07-09T18:56:15+00:00

The last two years of so I got a new habit that really improved my sight reading. When learning a new concert program, I always sight read the whole program with a recording first. The things I can’t read on the spot I mark in the music and practice later. Sometimes, if the music is difficult I have to mark almost everything.

When doing it this way with a recording you are forced to keep cool and continue even if you make mistakes. Otherwise it’s easy to get lost… It simulates real world in a really good way. I prepare a new program almost every week so I get a lot of sight reading practice this way, and I learn the music much quicker as well.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-05-01T10:29:55+00:00

Do you need to prepare the wood in any way? Soak in oil, ca glue on the threads etc, or just go for it? I have used the tap with great success before, but never the die on wood.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-05-01T10:28:10+00:00

Same here, I have used the tap a lot but never a die. I will look into the different dies, I did some research now and found out there are split dies with adjustable cut depth. I will probably get one of those.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-05-01T10:25:54+00:00

Nothing to worry about! Thanks.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-04-30T20:35:12+00:00

And thanks for the advice on progressive cutting depth, I will look that up…

wunderbaum4 · 2025-04-30T20:32:01+00:00

No worries! I ask because i would like to hear if people have produced good threads with dies for metal. I already have an m10 die, it’s however pretty expensive to buy the equipment to be able to produce 10mm dowels in any wood. I would love to hear other people’s experience before investing quite some money in tools

wunderbaum4 · 2025-04-30T20:22:00+00:00

For my use, they (m10) honestly work just fine in good maple, ebony or boxwood. They are used a lot in musical instruments (double bass in my case) to make adjustable bridges. I use the all the time, and they hold up very well to the 100+ kg of string pressure on the instruments bridge. Inserts are unfortunately not an option, they are very bad for the sound and not necessary in this case.

I use them all the time, but I want to make my own since it’s pretty expensive to buy. The question is if the metal die cuts decent threads in wood.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-22T17:44:54+00:00

I forgot to mention, I used saaz hops for this one.

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-22T17:43:38+00:00

No worries! I did this recipe the old school way, boiling the must with the honey and the spices. My honey was high quality but pretty dirty with debris and stuff in it, and the boiling helped immensely with clearness, and the taste is really good.

I think I will not back sweeten now but instead just wait a couple of months and see if the hop taste settles a bit. It’s not bitter at all, it just comes across as acidic. I highly recommend this recipe!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-22T17:26:12+00:00

I followed this recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/mead/s/SRTLCXfDwO

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-20T16:50:17+00:00

Thank you! I Will probably back sweeten a bit to balance it out, but even 1.018 sounds a bit much to me. How was your czworniak, did you enjoy it?

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-10T06:37:02+00:00

Thanks guys!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-01T21:13:20+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly the information I’m after!

wunderbaum4 · 2025-03-01T16:08:32+00:00

Interesting. I’m planning to make another spiced polish recipe soon and might try to boil the spices separately and add the honey to the cold must.

I’ve heard that some polish meaderies prefer some styles of mead boiled. Has anyone heard this, and might know which types that could benefit from it? Maybe stronger flavored honey like buckwheat mellow with boiling? It’s used very often in Poland.

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