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Pros & Cons
Pros
The sr800 can roast up to 8oz of green coffee at a time. The roasted bean is the most determining factor that pleases you most. Very happy with the quality of roasted beans.
A great small biz. The company's website offers good tips and pdf's that can help. Sometimes thats what happens with specialty items such as this.
The cooling cycle works really well, you just have to manually crank the fan up. The temperature can be displayed by giving a quick clockwise crank to the knob. A saw a review saying it doesn’t display temperature; not true, you simply need to enable ... Read More
Sweet maria's popper roaster is basically their version of the modified air popper. The trick is to separate the roasting process into 3 phases. For me, this is way easier than roasting in the oven or other devices.
More of an annoyance, but the single multi function button / knob takes more than a little getting used to.
Highlights
Quality
This is a high quaility personal roaster that works great and has accessories that can increase the output
Roasts very well and easy to clean up
On plastic foot broke off within a few uses
The machine roasts so quickly and unlike pan roasters doesnt dry out the beans
Price
This is a roaster well worth the expense
I upgraded my roast chamber and from what i can tell my roast is on par with roasters that cost over 3000
If you have the time to baby sit this roaster for 20 minutes to keep adjusting the controls and wait for the right color on the... Read More
I wanted to give roasting a try but didnt want to spend 500 on an automated drum style machine based on the reviews this seemed... Read More
Shipping
They sent it promptly and were so pleasant about the whole thing
I bought the extension tube and roast 300g of green coffee at a time right at ten minutes in my garage at 50 outside temperature
In these days of never hearing or able to contact anyone i was amazed my email was answered the next day and the replacement ar... Read More
I sent it in for the 50 fix and tune up because the part would not be available for a week i was promptly sent a new roaster i... Read More
Packaging/appearance
Amazing work roast good and even nice packaging and easy to use
The packaging comes with no advice on how to use
Competitiveness
By far comparing to the dripping gadgets those v60 variation and pouring technique water temperature the roasted bean is the mo... Read More
I have used and worked with other home roasters and the sr800 is by far my favorite
From what i have read the only reason to look elsewhere would be if you want to roast a pound or more of beans per batch and in... Read More
It is worth the difference in price from the smaller sr because you can roast roughly twice the amount with significantly less ... Read More
Overview
- How are reviewers describing this item?
roast, first, good, great and easy. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 461 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 29 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We used to have the 500 for years it finally started to disintegrate so it was the time to upgrade
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The 800 is much bigger and we get a lot more beans roasted
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Of course singlesource green beans are required for this to make sense
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This sr800 coffee roaster has worked much better for me
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When its 60 degrees outside it is a bit underpowered
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Instead of 220 grams of coffee i roast at a time i use about 170 grams
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
You will have to turn up the heat to full and turn the fan on the highest setting for the drying process
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