Hottop 8828B Full Roast Operation (Auto)

This is a Hottop 8828B doing a full roast cycle on auto. This is actually the first time I am using and running the Hottop. The roast came out great! Very easy to use.

FULLY ANNOTATED! use the annotation tool to skip forward through the main moments in the roast

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• coffee
• hottop
• roast
• green
• bean

[plexuss]

@woodway11 exothermic. look it up. means as it reacts it gives off heat. endothermic is when it takes heat (gets cold) when it reacts. roasting beans give off heat that adds to the ambient heat in the roaster. so there. : p

[bhz]

I'm looking to buy a coffee bean roaster. How reliable has this machine been for you over the past 2+ years

[Skipmeister4000]

Thanks for recording this! The roast chamber on my Fresh Roast+ (Not the +8, the original one with a 5 minute timer) just broke, and I've been trying to decide between the Gene Cafe and the HotTop B. I was concerned with the additional smoke from the larger volume of beans, but it looks like my the hood vent and fan over my stove should be able to handle it.

[colinsjonesuk]

What a great video review, I for one would like to thank you for the effort required to make this. I'm trying to decide between a Behmor and a Hottop and I found this very useful (very professional).

[woodway11]

Nice video review of the Hot Top...exothermic ??? please!  Wrong word application.

[Grufian]

Excellent commentary which gave one lust to own one -

someday when my FreshRoast8 dies a natural death ;-)

[JokerJ333]

Roasting coffee always produces smoke. It's part of the process.

Some smaller significantly less expensive machines, like the I-roast 2, have an attachment that goes on the top of it where you can rig some drier tubing (the collapsible silver type) to vent out a window.

[kalimango1339]

Is there a machine that would produce less smoke?

[Agathorn]

God this is a cool machine. Just like a big roster but tiny (relatively tiny, hehe) in size!

To bad the smoke is so bad. Probably not gonna get this because of the smoke :/