Sweet Maria's Hottop Tipsheet

[germantown rob]

I remove the filter after each roast to let it dry between roasts. I let the filter and the roaster dry out because quite a lot of moisture is driven out of the beans during roasting.

The moisture isn't a problem in the roaster since I drop in around 300f ET but it is a problem with the filters, rotating them is helping. still it doesn't take much to limit the air flow of the filter which changes it's effectiveness.

[germantown rob]

I am curious - a customer long ago suggested that he removed the filter when the roast was I think through first crack but not yet into second crack. I believe he said that it did not stall the roast - and it prolonged the life of the filter. I guess he was thinking that the back pressure (and heat retention) during that first part of the roast was most important. I am curious what you all think of that technique - has any one tried it?

I have, I found that with no back pressure to much heat gets robbed and can drop the ET very rapidly but if I get distracted and come into first crack with to much heat I have pulled the filter for a short time to gain control of the roast.

[javafool]

I remove the filter after each roast to let it dry between roasts. I let the filter and the roaster dry out because quite a lot of moisture is driven out of the beans during roasting.

The moisture isn't a problem in the roaster since I drop in around 300f ET but it is a problem with the filters, rotating them is helping. still it doesn't take much to limit the air flow of the filter which changes it's effectiveness.

I am more than a little slow with this response but it seems to me that you would drive about the same amount of water from x ozs of beans no matter what temp the beans are dropped. If I don't air out my Hottop brown water will drip out the bottom of the roaster.

Terry

[germantown rob]

I remove the filter after each roast to let it dry between roasts. I let the filter and the roaster dry out because quite a lot of moisture is driven out of the beans during roasting.

The moisture isn't a problem in the roaster since I drop in around 300f ET but it is a problem with the filters, rotating them is helping. still it doesn't take much to limit the air flow of the filter which changes it's effectiveness.

I am more than a little slow with this response but it seems to me that you would drive about the same amount of water from x ozs of beans no matter what temp the beans are dropped. If I don't air out my Hottop brown water will drip out the bottom of the roaster.

Terry

I have never had liquid drip from the roaster itself. I do a speed cooling to the roaster to get it below 100f then preheat for the next roast, I have done 10 roasts back to back (5 hrs, ugh!). My high drop in temp may be the reason I don't get moisture dripping maybe because it is running over the boiling temp of water for about 5 min before more beans are added.