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GreenBean wrote:Is the B model available in Europe as a 220-240 volt version?
Belgik wrote:As already stated on this forum, I got the "B"asic machine.
So far I don't feel any pressing need to "reproduce" roasting profiles; I'm happy with doing it all manual, "hit the button when (I think) it's right".
Quite frankly, I would not leave a coffee-toaster (that's what it really is) like the Hottop unattended (the instructions, rightly, profusely warn against leaving it unattended whilst roasting), hence any hints that the roaster would be, in any way, "automatic" would be a misguidance, rendering any such advantage theoretical in nature only.
I use my handwritten roasting log to aid me in predetermining how, to what degree of roast, I wish to go, not any "saved" on-board programme.
If I'm not mistaken, the latest "hi-end" version of the Hottop costs about half the price of an average laptop over and above that of the basic model. To me that is ..ridiculous.
What I bought, in the Hottop, is a piece of well thought out stainless steel machinery that will, hopefully, stay with me for quite a number of years; not a "computerized" gizmo.
Only my 2 eurocents, of course...
Paul
trust me the B not as all singing as some say). Sure
you have control but I didn't think it reacted quick enough,
and I didn't think I was in control of the roast. And its one
minute segments on the P which is what you need to be honest to
react to what's happening in the roast.
bluevalentine wrote:I have 5-6 roasting profiles which I either devised or borrowed which I use more than the rest and looking back over a year's roasting notes I find them remarkably consistent (+/- 20 secs) in getting the desired result. Some work better than others with different types of coffee and different degrees of roast. Most are on this forum somewhere.
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