Hi guys, the engineer in me is begging to type
so here goes -
while i know that everyone here's had lots of experience roasting and some have even had both machines, there's potentially 2 assumptions that we may be making when comparing the machines :
1. that our roasting knowledge has remained static in this time
2. the gene technology hadn't changed since the early models. I think most ppl that owned a gene was pre MAR2007 so that's not really an indicator of the current model. I'm only talking about gene changes here because the base model HT's been fairly stable for a while - or at least that's the impression that i'm getting. I'm not going to touch the debate about whether gene should have released in EU (if they actually did push it and not distribute it here as a result of demand by the market) since that's just a big kettle of worms and really not relevant here
realistically guys, the answer's kind of sitting in front of us - blind taste test. Get someone who owns and knows how to roast well in a HT and someone who knows how to roast in the gene. Give them each 500gms (in case the first batch is goofed) of 3 or 4 types of beans and get each person to roast the various beans. Then get together and blind taste them. Notice i'm saying MAR2007 genes because that's the benchmark.. you can't buy a pre MAR2007 gene now (and really shouldnt' anyway)
If we REALLY want to push the tests, then we can do multiple trials :
1. Gene vs Standard HT - no variacs
2. Gene vs the new all singing all dancing HT - no variacs
3. Gene vs Standard HT - allow variac
4. Gene vs the new HT - allow variac
ok i think i've typed my quota for the month heh heh
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