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Tinola

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Lysander Sample Roaster
« on: April 14, 2013, 02:30:38 PM »
Hello, does anyone have any experience on this sample roaster? It looks like it'll roast up to 200-250 grams of coffee which is perfect for my use.
Link right here: http://www.billiecoffee.com/roaster0.htm
There's also a video on youtube about it.
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Tinola

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2013, 04:13:56 PM »
Should I go for it? It's not much more expensive than a behmor.
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Offline simmich

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2013, 04:18:27 PM »
One of the guys in H-B posted that he bought one...
(he is now "mia")

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2013, 04:27:46 PM »
It looks like you'd be totally "winging it" (as in like no apparant temperature monitoring, etc...)

How thick is the metal? How responsive is the thing?
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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2013, 06:36:49 PM »
Yeah ... whatever you pay you will have to add your own heat source and digital thermometer with thermocouples to measure the bean and environment temperature to have any sort of control over it.

As long as you know this going into it.

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2013, 08:55:07 PM »
The only thing holding me back is the lack of reviews. I know that I have to supply the heat and cooling and the temperature monitor.
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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2013, 09:00:59 PM »
Quote from: Tinola on April 14, 2013, 08:55:07 PM
The only thing holding me back is the lack of reviews. I know that I have to supply the heat and cooling and the temperature monitor.

In the end the only review that matters is your own. If you are unsure will they let you play with it for a week or two?

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2013, 09:08:57 PM »
Quote from: Tinola on April 14, 2013, 08:55:07 PM
The only thing holding me back is the lack of reviews. I know that I have to supply the heat and cooling and the temperature monitor.

Forgive me if I'm wrong for assuming you're somewhat new to roasting...  but if that's the case this sample roaster may not be well suited to a novice.  Typically sample roasters are used by adding a set amount of beans that work well at that capacity, and a set amount of heat is added to bring them through 1C in a set amount of time.  The cupper is generally able to extrapolate flavors from that roast level w/o any profiling.  I don't think sample roasters are well-suited for the end-result roasting that most of us do.
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Tinola

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2013, 10:49:02 PM »
Yeah, I'm new. I guess I'll just go with the Behmor for now.
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Offline MGLloyd

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Re: Lysander Sample Roaster
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2013, 10:46:52 AM »
This looks like a variant of the same style roaster from Israel.  Although that one had a copper drum and you could either crank the drum by hand over a gas burner, or they had a model with an electric drive to crank the drum.
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