☕poppery mods that actually fixed my uneven roasts
West Bend Poppery I, the OG hopper style. everything here is stuff i've actually run on mine, not theoretical forum stuff.
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1
separate power cords for fan and heater
biggest one. dimmer switch on the fan circuit, router speed control on the heater. first crack finally happens when it's supposed to.
2
drilled extra intake holes in the base
3
K-type thermocouple zip tied by the chaff screen
cheap probe thermometer, reads bean mass temp close enough to matter. log it or forget it, i mean that literally now.
4
dropped batch size to about 80g
full cup never fluidizes right in this thing, beans just tumble in a clump at the bottom.
5
foil chimney extension on the chaff exhaust
6
heat gun preheat before dropping beans
30 seconds of preheat aimed into the chamber so first crack doesn't lag 90 seconds behind everyone else's roast.
7
cork board under the base
8
roast log notebook, one line per batch
date, batch weight, first crack time, drop temp. sounds excessive until your trying to repeat a roast from memory and can't.
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