r/FreshroastSR800

My cupboard is stocked with Light and Medium roasts—the Dark roasts are all sold out. It’s been a fun weekend, and I’m full of anticipation for the tasting this Wednesday. The initial cupping tests of these freshly roasted beans reveal so many variations that I have no idea how to go about ranking the best ones. I’ll evaluate them in batches of three to narrow it down, and eventually select the final winners. Your critiques and advice are a true gift to me.

Razzo V5T roasting 11 ounces on a new-ish SR800

Just started using graphing software, wanted to try the same Ethiopian beans with two different profiles. They are the most even Ethiopian Dry process I have ever roasted, so I’m hoping that bodes well for their flavor after resting for a few days or longer.

Sent to me by a customer who is roasting with two SR800 and two Razzo V5T-12, packaging and selling local. The Razzo with true bean temperature monitoring makes consistency possible. He is working on a 60# bag of Brazil. Posted with permission.

Trivia: the first 12 inch Razzo was a custom request from a “cottage” roaster in Virginia for in 2021 her SR800. I didn’t think it was a good idea. Now 12 inch is the most popular Razzo chamber size (V5T, D12T, C12).

Just finished long overdue project of building a shade canopy and planting my coffee plants.

Hi guys I hope you can help me: I bought a Fresh roast sr540 to roast my coffee at home. I watched videos and learn before starting. My main concern is that I monitored the temperature that the machine provided but I barely reached the 400 F, from what I read, it must be significantly higher than that.

I used 130 gr of coffee initially and at the end I had 116. My plan was:

Power at 9 of 9 during the whole process

Fan at 9/9 from 0:00 to 3:00 minutes

Fan at 8/9 from 3:00 to 4:30

Fan at 7/9 from 4:30 to 6:30

Cooling 3 minutes

I tried two times at different places of my home (to check it wasn't an outlet problem) and monitored the temperature over the process (the plot is in the images).

I think I heard something like a crack at 5 minutes, but it was a very isolated thing, It didn't sound to me like many beans at the same time.

Any suggestions on what to do with the temperature? Or how do I check it reached the first crack?

I just listened to the April 7th Roast it Yourself Podcast and host recommended dropping the power to 0 and increasing the fan about 15 seconds into First Crack. That seems like a wild recommendation to me, but granted I drop after 60 seconds of First Crack most of the time anyway and sometimes less. Has anyone else heard, or better yet tried, this type of recommendation?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dhWqjASdkFeWUDAASjnOY?si=Q_4Gpt_bSee1Fjr_nQ6ocw

SR800 W/ Razzo shooting for a nice light roast. 12.9% loss. 41% dry, 46% Maillard, 13% development, total roast 7:57. Really happy with the results on these, both from the profile and the visual of the beans. Still need to work on the RoR a bit but still a solid roast. Gonna let them rest a few days but can’t wait to brew them up in a V60!