Second roasting with the Hottop coffee bean roaster
After learning an awful lot from the first roast with the newly acquired Hottop home roasting machine, I was keen to see if the second coffee bean roasting session produced better results.
The first roast was far to dark, some would say burnt, so I decided to go for a slightly lighter roast this time.
Still in “Auto” mode, which defaults to 18 minutes, the next batch of 250g of green beans sat waiting for the machine to pre-heat. As soon as the roaster beeped to indicate it was time to add the beans they were added through the bean chute.
The Hottop manual does have a section which lists approximate times that you should see bean colour changes, the first crack and the second crack. If anything the beans were progressing slightly quicker than the manual said they would, but it was a warm day and the ambient temperature was over 20 degrees C so this may have caused this??
The first crack happened almost two minutes ahead of schedule so the second crack was expected early too.
Just a few seconds into the second crack I ejected the beans early as I didn’t want the roast as dark as last time.
The beans were ejected out onto the cooling plate and were noticeably lighter than last time, with just a hint of a few oil spots.
On the face of it, a much better roasting session.
Roasting details
Beans ejected after 16 minutes 30 seconds
Temperature of roasting machine at time of ejection, 408 degrees F
Observations - Rapid cracking (second crack), much less smoke than first roasting session