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Coffee Blog: 2022-08-14 Upgrade
There is a coffee roasting machine called the Aillio Bullet. You have to read its specs hear the hype to see what it is capable of, and at £3,250 it appears to be worth it. However, it doesn't have a flu or chimney, just a vent, so all the steam and oil it releases just fill up the kitchen. Hopefully they'll see the short-sightedness of this. Not all of us have garages, basements or cellars.
It does though, have one intriguing piece of technology tucked into it's sleek features, that got me rather excited.
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There is a coffee roasting machine called the Aillio Bullet. You have to read its specs hear the hype to see what it is capable of, and at £3,250 it appears to be worth it. However, it doesn't have a flu or chimney, just a vent, so all the steam and oil it releases just fill up the kitchen. Hopefully they'll see the short-sightedness of this. Not all of us have garages, basements or cellars.
Coffee Blog: 2022-07-31
Yesterday, I roasted Profile I, which I'd come up with after sampling Profile H. I did two loads, each of 200g.
| Profile I | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Load | 200g | End (mins) | ||
| Pre-heat | 200°C | |||
| Stage 1 (to yellow) | Drying | 200°C | 6:00 | |
| Stage 2 (to 1st crack) | Caramelising | 250°C | 10:30 | |
| Stage 3 | Development | 240°C | 16:30 | |
| Ambient Temp | 25.8°C | |||
| RH | 49% | |||
| Coffee | Columbian - El Carmen | |||
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Yesterday, I roasted Profile I, which I'd come up with after sampling Profile H. I did two loads, each of 200g. Profile I Load 200g End (mins)Pre-heat 200(^c) Stage 1 (to yellow) Drying 200(^c) 6:00Stage 2 (to 1st crack)
2022-07-30 Fix Website
Update to site software breaks something.
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Update to site software breaks something.
There was an update to the software used to run this website - Dokuwiki - and unbeknownst to me, fixed a fix I had made and broke something. To put that more clearly, I had made a fix to the template I use for layout etc., so it was friendly to Facebook. With the
Coffee Blog: 2022-07-24
Update: Profile H tested, see below
I've been creating roasting profiles, and recently changed from a numeric system to an alphabetic. I don't know why, perhaps the numbers were making me depressed at how many times I'd done it and still not reached a particularly good roast other by accident.
Anyway, I decided to do two roasts this weekend. One I called 'Profile G' and the other 'Profile H'. Here's the first one:
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Update: Profile H tested, see below
I've been creating roasting profiles, and recently changed from a numeric system to an alphabetic. I don't know why, perhaps the numbers were making me depressed at how many times I'd done it and still not reached a particularly good roast other by accident.
Jezero Weather Data
The Perseverance Rover has been sending back weather data. Now that InSight has officially retired from the weather business, I'll be collecting the weather data from Perseverance in Jezero Crater.
It'll take me a while to get setup, and the data being returned is quite different. The InSight weather page will be renamed so it can still be accessed.