I had been reading about it for about two years, waffling back and forth about whether I wanted to spend the money on it. Finally decided I wanted to pull the trigger, so got pre-approval from the wife (definitely better to ask permission than forgiveness in this case ) and set up a monitor on VisualPing to watch the page for changes.hdcd wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:58 pm I've been eyeing the Bullet for quite a while... when my Behmor dies I will have a decision to make. It's been a very good dependable roaster and I have learned quite a bit in the process. It would be nice if there were a few more roaster options to choose from without the price jump to the Bullet .
All true. But I still love my bullet. I like the logging so I can see what's actually happening with the beans, I love the control over the process and repeatability. But perhaps most of all I love that I can turn out 11 lbs of perfectly roasted beans in about 90 minutes.Nicolas wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:26 pm I went in the opposite direction, building the “Turbo-Crazy” roaster from a Stircrazy popcorn popper and a convection oven for about $75. I’ve been roasting with this setup for about eight years. I can roast a pound at a time. I did have to replace the convection oven twice when they failed for about $40 each.
Before that I just used hot air poppers from Goodwill for about nine years, but the Turbo-Crazy is better. You don’t need to spend thousands to roast delicious coffee.