Category: Coffee
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Water, the weakest link in espresso brewing?
I recently disconnected my Everpure Claris water filter because of a my house renovation. This left me with a problem. Where could I find filtered and softened water for my espresso machine? Luckily my friend Frans Goddijn helped me out. He supplied me with bottled water that was filtered with his BWT Bestmax premium water…
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Tiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster update 8 Feb 2017
Tije de Jong made a first housing for the Tiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster. He also made a part that improves the movement of coffee beans inside the roast chamber. This improvement is not finished yet but it already makes a slightly larger batch size possible (310 vs 250 grams). Tije also made an addition…
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Tiny Cheap Fluid Bed Roaster: New roasting chamber
Tije built a new roast chamber which allows a larger load to roast. The (free, donation supported) Artisan software reduces airflow as the beans get less heavy and the Artisan PID follows the designed background. See also https://github.com/artisan-roaster-scope/artisan This post was copy and pasted from Frans Goddijn’s blog.
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Tiny cheap fluid bed: PID tuning
Yesterday we worked again on our Tiny Little fluid bed roaster. On the menu was to further configure the PID-settings. This should make it possible to precisely and consistently execute roast profiles. For our test we used again Indian Cherry Robusta. This cheap coffee produced lot’s of chaff during the roast. Although the roast results looked fine…
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Tiny cheap fluid bed: chaff collector and more testing
Last week we did some new tests with our DIY Tiny fluid bed roaster. There were two things to test. First we wanted to test the Chaff collector that was made by Tije. Secondly we wanted to configure the PID of the TC4/ Arduino to make it accurately execute pre defined roast profiles. Tije’s chaff…
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Tiny cheap fluid bed roaster update: background roast test
Yesterday we tested the “background roast” feature of the free Artisan software, with Artisan activating and regulating the heater in order to let the BT cruise along the pre-designed profile. Before our test we made a few improvements to the hard- and software configuration.