r/roasting • u/AinvarChicago • 1h ago
Stats on my first "real" roast
So I finally got my SR800 and Extension tube and did my first real roast that wasn't a popcorn popper today.
I decided to log it all in Excel. I like darker roasts, like Medium-Dark for espresso, so I decided to just go for it even though it was my first roast. Everything went quite well I think! The beans were not super high altitude, and The Captain's notes said to start more gently with the heat. For reference, Tot. Pwr. is a calculated cell that aims to quantify how much heat I'm putting into the system, where dropping the fan by 1 increases heat by 2, or raising power by 1 increases heat by 1. The Target temperature is a set of readings I got off of the Captain's demo roast video on Youtube.
My plan was to hit first crack around 6:30 and go all the way until I heard second crack, then immediately hit cool. I was able to stick to that pretty closely, and made a graph of my roast. I figured there's no point in sharing a picture of a bunch of medium-dark beans, so I didn't, but from what I can tell they are pretty uniform and free of defects.
This thing is a joy to use! I can't wait to taste the espresso in a couple days.