My wife bought me the Gene Cafe home coffee roaster for Christmas this last year. This is one of those "tool/gadgets" I have been wanting for years, but because of the larger price tag...I kept putting off buying it for myself...I was like a little kid when I opened this up for the first time.This is my first coffee roaster, so I don't have a history with other units...but I must say I have been very happy with the machine and have had zero problems with it thus far... It does produce a lot of smoke... especially for the darker roasts, but with the oversized chaff collector and a venting tube outside... there is no problem :)
This unit has a pretty large capacity (10 oz. of unroasted green coffee), is very easy to use, and is very quiet. You can easily control both the time and temperature and therefore it is easy enough for the first timer and also complex enough for the coffee roasting guru's. This roaster produces what I would expect from a much more expensive coffee roaster...I have produced some pretty stellar Colombian Supremo "City Roast" with very little experience.
So, what are the"drawbacks" of this unit?
- Well the only thing that I don't "LOVE".. is the cleaning of the unit. It is hard to get my larger hand into the drum to scrub it clean. I fixed this by buying a drinking glass scrubber with a long handle :)
- Lots of smoke is produced during the roast. This is easy to fix as long as you have the extra large chaff collector that has the vent tube attachment.
Enough talk... I think it is time for a double Latte... Cheers!
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