Behmor roaster - wire drum damage

[StillShaving]

Yes, there is a light mounted in the roof of the Behmor on the left hand side. The auto-exposure on the digicam did not adjust to the lighting conditions very well, so the recording inside the roaster is over exposed. The Behmor built-in light works pretty well but has a yellowish tint so I find that shining a mini flashlight gives a more accurate color picture of the roast, so that was added near the end of the video but it did not help with the quality of the recording.

 

[nff]

and that was the light i was refering to. the hand held one. glad you managed to rig something together.

 

[StillShaving]

Doing a follow up post to show how a few beans usually get stuck in the wire mesh during each roast. The fact that a few beans get stuck is to be expected and not a big deal, I just wanted to highlight how they expand during roasting to get locked in tighter. To help visualize how the same expansion process could be damaging if a small/broken bean got underneath the leading edge of an agitation fin.

The outside half of this bean is very charred:

This one almost escapes, and partially broken in half:

But the roast turned out okay. A photo of the lightly roasted Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, where the Behmor cooling cycle engaged near the end of 1st crack.