Repeating a roast profile

If you made a good roast, you likely want to repeat it :-) But thats not easy to do accurately because so much influence a roast.

Steffen from KaffeRist do it often. Here he made 7 repeated roast of the same bean – trying to make the same roast profile. All done in a row.

You can see how the curves doesn’t overlay completely. And First Crack (FC) starts at different times and temperatures.

Steffens 7 gentagne rist april2017

He roast on a Bullet R1 roaster. The software got a PlayBack function that repeats the settings of preheat, power and fan during from the roast you want to repeat.

But the same settings doesn’t give the same profile even though it’s the same bean and the same batch size. So during the roast Steffen overrules the automatic settings. The ROR curve is the best way to see where the Bean temperature (BT) is heading – to adjust in time.

And then he listens for the First Crack (FC) start every time. And aim to make the development from FC start the same every time: regarding time and temperature rise.