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endothermic reversal point
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Ringo |
Posted on 08/05/2013 9:45 AM
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The way I understand it is when the beans go through 1st crack steam is released causing the heat to rise. On my drum roaster when 1st crack starts I have to cut way back on the heat but as 1st crack winds down I have to add heat so the roast does not stall. I would guess you would not see this rise in a air roaster because the steam would be blown out the top, but in a drum the beans are rolling in a pile.
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Posted on 08/05/2013 10:35 AM
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Actually, releasing steam COOLS the beans! Steam is heat leaving the bean. What you might see happening is the beginning of the Maillard reaction. As moisture leaves, the bean becomes dryer, and sugars can begin to brown, this stage is slightly exothermic. You can see that in the graph above. The 45? slope from 170?F to 190?F is the sugars being browned. The steeper portion are from the remaining hydrocarbons.
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Posted on 08/05/2013 10:47 AM
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It seems like perhaps the endothermic/exothermic discussion is out there again, I figured I'd put this thread back up to keep things tidy. Here's a question. I don't believe I'm ever reading actual bean-temp....and i could be wrong. It seems it's always some form of enviromental reading. If that is true, how can anyone be sure of what the beans are doing? -Scott |
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Posted on 08/05/2013 10:58 AM
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What food scientists do is a calorific test in a calorimeter. We did them in high school chemistry. You put a small sample in a sealed container, heat it up and measure any change in heat. That's what the Raemy and Lambelet graph I often post is from. Using this test you eliminate any environmental causes such as heating the drum, cooling from a breeze, etc. What R&L did was grind some green beans, steep in water to pull out anything soluble in water, and then test the coffee-water and spent grounds separately in a calorimeter. Here are those two overlaid on the same graph.
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Posted on 08/05/2013 11:37 AM
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....so, I understand this to be proof that it is releasing its own energy at that point? (When I first started roasting, I had a little book from M Sivetz that spoke of this, I really just took it as gospel.) But....there are some opposing views out there. I believe the other point of view is that coffee isn't releasing energy unless it's on fire? I'd like to hear that as well. -Scott |
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Posted on 08/05/2013 11:48 AM
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Scott, I know there's been a lot of talk about this on this forum and other forums over the years, but I thought by now everyone had come to understand the simple science of the Maillard reaction. Yes, these graphs are scientific proof of an exothermic reaction. Here is the abstract for that article which clearly states coffee roasting is exothermic and even warns that it is so intense that it can start a fire: "The technique of heat flow calorimetry was used to determine the specific heat of coffee and chicory products and to study their thermal behaviour above 20?C. Intensive exothermic reactions were particularly evident when measurements were made with sealed cells. The data obtained help in the understanding of how exothermic reactions (and self-heating) occurring in such foodstuffs can bring them above their minimum ignition temperature."* The notion that roasting coffee is not exothermic is a falsehood. Granted, there are roasters who disagree, but until they run their own calorific tests and get it published in a peer-review journal, I'm going to stick with what these two dudes are saying. Burning hydrocarbons are indeed releasing energy and it is therefore an exothermic reaction, but then so is mixing a two-part epoxy. If you've ever mixed too much in a paper cup you know it gets warm. That's an exothermic reaction, too. *Raemy A, Lambelet P. A calorimetric study of self-heating in coffee and chicory. Int J Food Sci & Tech, 1982;17(4):451?460. 1 pound electric sample roaster, 3 pound direct-flame roaster, both handmade; modified Mazzer Mini grinder, LaSpaziale Vivaldi II automatic espresso machine. When the electricity goes out I make vacpot coffee from beans ground on my Zassenhaus hand grinder, and heat the water with a teakettle on the gas range.
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Ringo |
Posted on 08/05/2013 12:28 PM
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ok This will be my last post on this subject. The old timer that showed my how to roast explained that coffee takes in heat until 1st crack were it gives up heat. Its not a chemical reaction its heat stored in the steam. He did use the words endothermic an exothermic but only to mean the take in heat or release heat. When steam is no longer under pressure it releases heat, the higher the steam pressure is the more heat that is stored. In some roasters the release of steam will raise the environmental temp of the roast for a short time. I really never understood that the discussion on this was weather there was a chemical reaction because I agree there is no way there is a chemical reaction. I work with boilers in my day job that are used for industrial heating and I do think there is "stored" heat in steam. When I roast on my behmor of my IRoast2 i do not see this heat release, I think the heat is released with the steam its just the roaster is too open and the heat dissipates. If you roast someday on a commercial drum roaster I believe you will see this need to cut the heat at 1st crack. I am probably not right on the reason this happens but in a drum the roast will steed up if you do not cut the BTU's. On somethings we will not always agree and that ok.
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Posted on 08/05/2013 1:39 PM
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Ringo, A drum is a more or less sealed container. When water is heated and leaves the beans for the drum the amount of heat the beans lose is exactly the same as what the drum gains. In other words, the amount of heat stays the same. Maybe I'm missing something, but this sounds a lot like the old "overloaded semi-trailer full of pidgeons on the weigh scale story." As the story goes, the driver bangs on the truck, the pidgeons fly, and presumably he passes the weigh limit. Keep in mind that MythBusters busted this very convincingly. Maybe we should ask them to test this "myth," too. ![]() 1 pound electric sample roaster, 3 pound direct-flame roaster, both handmade; modified Mazzer Mini grinder, LaSpaziale Vivaldi II automatic espresso machine. When the electricity goes out I make vacpot coffee from beans ground on my Zassenhaus hand grinder, and heat the water with a teakettle on the gas range.
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Posted on 08/05/2013 2:35 PM
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Scientific data aside, it sounds like it matters to the drum folks. The transition is something that has to be anticipated or bad things happen. What about for the air-roaster? Do I care? Would there be an advantage for me if I could pinpoint the moment of transition? -Scott |
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Posted on 08/05/2013 2:36 PM
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Quote The notion that roasting coffee is not exothermic is a falsehood. Granted, there are roasters who disagree, but until they run their own calorific tests and get it published in a peer-review journal, I'm going to stick with what these two dudes are saying. well Dan, you can stick with those two guys. many more do not agree. there is only one thing I can think of you get with an "overloaded semi-trailer full of pidgeons." ginny |
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Posted on 08/05/2013 2:47 PM
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Oh, I'm not asking for anyone to agree with me, Ginny. I'm just sharing what I've learned and talking about what works for Dan.
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Posted on 08/05/2013 11:26 PM
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Quote Dan wrote: becomes markedly exothermic around 195?F. as seen in this graph. 195C not F. It's probably just a typo, but you repeated it in your next post. Worth correcting in case a newbie is lurking. Finally: Quote Actually, releasing steam COOLS the beans! Setting aside the question of whether the reactions occurring in the beans are endothermic or exothermic -- the beans continue to gain heat if for no other reason than because the environmental temperature is higher than the bean temperature and the ordinary laws of thermodynamics apply. BDL USRC 1lb Roaster, Chemex+Kone, Espro, Various FPs, Royal Siphon Vacuum, Yama Ice Drip Tower, Bunnzilla, La Cimbali M21 Casa, Ceado E92.
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Posted on 08/06/2013 7:41 AM
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BDL, Thanks for the temperature correction. Right, heat moves from hot to cold. And, speaking of the laws of thermodynamics, changing liquid to gas (water to steam) requires heat. When that steam leaves the bean that bean now contains less heat than before. Same basic principle as a swamp cooler. Dan 1 pound electric sample roaster, 3 pound direct-flame roaster, both handmade; modified Mazzer Mini grinder, LaSpaziale Vivaldi II automatic espresso machine. When the electricity goes out I make vacpot coffee from beans ground on my Zassenhaus hand grinder, and heat the water with a teakettle on the gas range.
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Posted on 08/06/2013 9:29 AM
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Dan, With respect: Steam leaving the beans doesn't mean the beans are losing net temp or net heat energy for that matter -- it means they're losing moisture. You already said the beans were in the midst of an exothermia. That means their generating their own heat energy. They can't be exothermic and cooling at the same time. Being a net emitter of energy or steam isn't the same thing as cooling. The little study you got that graph from says exothermia occurs as well. As long as ET is greater than BT, losing steam at 1st C doesn't "cool the beans." It can mean a lot of things, but with roaster heat and fan constant, BT measurements prove that BT doesn't drop at first crack. They actually show an increase in BT rate of rise. ET RoR, too. If you're saying that the beans would be even hotter; and/or have a faster temp rate of rise; and or emit more energy if they didn't give off steam, those are different inquiries. The swamp cooler model is largely inapplicable. As their is no external heat source other than ambient air temp, and the water inside isn't filled with objects in the midst of pyrolysis. Considering that this is the internet and that I'm new on this forum it probably needs saying that I'm not trying to show you up -- just help you out. BDL USRC 1lb Roaster, Chemex+Kone, Espro, Various FPs, Royal Siphon Vacuum, Yama Ice Drip Tower, Bunnzilla, La Cimbali M21 Casa, Ceado E92.
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Posted on 08/06/2013 9:58 AM
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Quote eric wrote: I will take exception to one of your statements - the folklore around exothermic reactions at 1C - I am sure there is no such thing. I have never seen it with my setups that should have shown it: very low thermal mass air roasters with good thermometry can easily detect any exothermic reaction as a rise of bean temp above env temp. Bad hypothesis. Exothermia doesn't mean that BT would be greater than ET. Exothermia would mean a faster rate of rise for BT AND ET (because the beans would be heating the environment by being net emitters of energy) than would otherwise occur absent exothermia. The hallmark of science isn't making or using measurements which can be expressed with numbers, it's "scientific method" which is just a way of thinking things through and testing the guesses. BDL USRC 1lb Roaster, Chemex+Kone, Espro, Various FPs, Royal Siphon Vacuum, Yama Ice Drip Tower, Bunnzilla, La Cimbali M21 Casa, Ceado E92.
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Posted on 08/06/2013 10:15 AM
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What I've noticed on this and other forums is that some people, but not BDL above, confuse exothermia and exothermic reaction. They are not the same and I've seen where this leads to misunderstandings. An iron skillet on the stove is exothermic (gives up its heat) when the gas flame under it is turned off. And exothermic chemical reaction is when chemicals combine to produce heat; two-part epoxy is an example, and so is wood burning in a fireplace. 1 pound electric sample roaster, 3 pound direct-flame roaster, both handmade; modified Mazzer Mini grinder, LaSpaziale Vivaldi II automatic espresso machine. When the electricity goes out I make vacpot coffee from beans ground on my Zassenhaus hand grinder, and heat the water with a teakettle on the gas range.
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Posted on 09/25/2013 7:37 PM
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Sorry for delay, will reply in full in the other thread: http://forum.home...ad_id=1885 Specific points above: Quote Dan wrote: This might help. Raemy and Lambelet measured coffee energies in their study and found that roasting becomes markedly exothermic around 195?F. as seen in this graph. Quote boar_d_laze wrote: Quote eric wrote: I will take exception to one of your statements - the folklore around exothermic reactions at 1C - I am sure there is no such thing. I have never seen it with my setups that should have shown it: very low thermal mass air roasters with good thermometry can easily detect any exothermic reaction as a rise of bean temp above env temp. Bad hypothesis. Exothermia doesn't mean that BT would be greater than ET. Exothermia would mean a faster rate of rise for BT AND ET (because the beans would be heating the environment by being net emitters of energy) than would otherwise occur absent exothermia. The hallmark of science isn't making or using measurements which can be expressed with numbers, it's "scientific method" which is just a way of thinking things through and testing the guesses. BDL Should have raised this in the other thread, ooops. :-) Eric
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Posted on 09/25/2013 9:21 PM
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Following on from the sweetness thread: http://forum.home...ad_id=3421 I know this has been discussed at length in many forums. I guess I am firmly in the not exothermic during 1C camp. Quote Dan wrote: Scott, I know there's been a lot of talk about this on this forum and other forums over the years, but I thought by now everyone had come to understand the simple science of the Maillard reaction. Yes, these graphs are scientific proof of an exothermic reaction. Here is the abstract for that article which clearly states coffee roasting is exothermic and even warns that it is so intense that it can start a fire: "The technique of heat flow calorimetry was used to determine the specific heat of coffee and chicory products and to study their thermal behaviour above 20?C. Intensive exothermic reactions were particularly evident when measurements were made with sealed cells. The data obtained help in the understanding of how exothermic reactions (and self-heating) occurring in such foodstuffs can bring them above their minimum ignition temperature."* The notion that roasting coffee is not exothermic is a falsehood. Granted, there are roasters who disagree, but until they run their own calorific tests and get it published in a peer-review journal, I'm going to stick with what these two dudes are saying. Burning hydrocarbons are indeed releasing energy and it is therefore an exothermic reaction, but then so is mixing a two-part epoxy. If you've ever mixed too much in a paper cup you know it gets warm. That's an exothermic reaction, too. *Raemy A, Lambelet P. A calorimetric study of self-heating in coffee and chicory. Int J Food Sci & Tech, 1982;17(4):451?460. Many years ago when I read the Schenker 2000 dissertation (posted here in 2009 without any significant comment, still available free at http://e-collecti.../eth:23461) one of the takeaways of mine was that 1st is not exothermic and I have watched for it ever since. Now if you go to page 66 of the PDF (page 54 of the paper) you will see that he cites quite a list of authors who vote for exo at some point while there are only two at that time (including Illy '95) who say no exo. Schenker did go to the trouble of drilling 250um holes in beans and installing thermocouples in individual beans for measurement of bean core temp. If you look at all his plots, the core temp ALWAYS lags the bean pile temp (what we call BT). He is quite adamant in his conclusion of no exothermic behaviour in both the laboratory and commercial roaster setting WITHIN normal roasting temperature ranges. Don't know how he could measure bean core temp in the middle of the 300kg Probat flying saucer roaster! Pity he did all isothermic air roasting in the lab, but I guess that is closer to commercial commodity roasting. My air roaster controller has a "Cal" ET profile that I run after every rebuild where I put a full load of those glossy lumps of charcoal that used to be beans into the roaster and the controller locks onto a constant ET of 130C and waits for BT to stabilise (RoR<0.25C/min), records BT then ramps up to 230C ET and does the same measurement. Takes close to 30 min including auto cool down cycle. This gives me two offsets that I linearly interpolate and apply to the roaster screen ET plots relative to the BT to get more useful information than ET: the difference between the two plots is a reasonable proxy for rate of power flow into the beans, yes it depends upon the fan setting and current RoR as well but all the roaster specific errors are nullified. With an air roaster there always is the problem of the huge temp gradient in the air coming off the nichrome or from the flame - this needs to be well mixed before measuring ET. The other source of error nullified is the heat loss through the walls of the roaster so the effective ET-BT represents power used to roast the beans and heat up the roaster. I have also focused on minimising the thermal capacity of the roaster, as best I can within all the other contraints. It is a very complex optimisation problem. Recently I added a field onto the roast screen on the roaster for adjusted ET minus BT so that I can see it while roasting (the graphing only happens afterward in review of a roast). Across many different beans and profiles I have never seen the power flow into the beans reverse and so I conclude endothermic throughout. I try to avoid 2C, and I must say if I accidentally run into a rolling 2nd then the power inflow to the beans drops significantly. Most roasts the power flow into the beans just goes down through first and on down up to 2nd. Sometimes it can look like it is heading for a cross but I know to kill the roast well before because I am well into 2nd. Never just left it to see - never have tested the fire detector cut out either! Some numbers from my experience: when ET probe placement and mixing are working well ET-BT @ 130C is 3C and 5C at 230C so I am pretty well insulated. Physics says this should be linear, I have not checked, at these low levels linear should be close enough. The adjusted ET - BT peaks at BT around 180-185C with 100C (so my MET is often 285C without tipping or any other problems) and ramps down as RoR is dropped and then thru 1st and can go down just below 10C into a rolling 2nd. Perhaps one could run a dummy roast with with those inert beans and record the ET-BT and use that as an offset to see how much is just going into the roasting, excluding some of the specific heat of the beans. Eric
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Posted on 09/26/2013 10:13 AM
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Thanks for Schenker, I'll take a look, it is very long. There was an earlier test using thermocouples inserted in the bean, but I can't find it.
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Posted on 09/26/2013 5:35 PM
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Quote eric wrote: In an air roaster ET measures the air temp before it gets anywhere near the beans and airflow is one way from the ET measurement to the beans, so its difference with the bean pile temp is a good indication of beans overall absorbing or releasing heat. ET is taken in some place before the airflow gets "anywhere near the beans, and aiflow is one way.." You can't have it both ways. Since ET is measured far from the beans, we have no way of knowing what the ET is near the beans; and therefore, the ET as measured cannot be used as a reliable indicator of what's going on with the beans. Since exothermic reactions are a widely observed, well reported, peer-reviewed, and accepted part of coffee roasting, I think you carry a burden of producing compelling evidence if you want to deny it. With great respect, I don't think you approach that standard. BDL Edited by JackH on 09/27/2013 11:23 AM USRC 1lb Roaster, Chemex+Kone, Espro, Various FPs, Royal Siphon Vacuum, Yama Ice Drip Tower, Bunnzilla, La Cimbali M21 Casa, Ceado E92.
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Posted on 09/27/2013 11:07 AM
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Posted on 09/27/2013 7:59 PM
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More thoughts: all I think one can conclude from Schenker's work is that there are no exothermic effects in isothermal or commodity roasting scenarios. I do believe that one needs to measure the scenario that one is interested in and check for exothermic effects in that particular scenario. I did want to ask Dan what wonderous flavours he gets when roasting in a pressure cooker? Does pregrinding the beans before roasting so that the usual 10+bar core pressure is avoided create even better flavours? Sorry could not resist - that is what I think you are proposing by submitting those papers on exothermic coffee roasting. Please come back if you think that is not correct! Just after posting above I realised that I already had all the information I needed to completely take the roaster out of the equation - no one offered this suggestion: since we have a step function in ET all one needs to do is fit the exponential to the BT, get the time constant, work out what fraction of the specific heat load is roaster vs coffee and split appropriately. Then the delta T attributable to the RC is RoR * tor (units are C). In the case above even though the beans look charcoal I took them as pure cellulose - they have probably been at 220C+ for a couple of hours and have had all their water and oils and other volatiles evaporated out and no further chemical reactions taking place (checked roast loss 37%!) - cellulose has 3x the specific heat of stainless and given my low mass RC 15% of the heat was going into the RC, the rest into the beans. So I have something for the next software rev. I really don't care what the scale of the dial for power into the beans is, just that it is linear and has no offset. I have been running stall and tipping protection on my controller for ages, it is simple ET control that overrides the much more complex BT control if power into the beans drops to zero (force adj ET - BT > 0) or if ET exceeds a preset, currently set to 300C to also protect the roaster, though all its parts are rated to 400C. If I ever went exothermic there would be a runaway and that has not happened. This protection has meant that through all the R&D I have not had one undrinkable roast, despite some pretty unstable BT control! Given that so many people use the exothermic idea to help them with their roasting, I still believe that it is the coming down from a very high effective specific heat prior to 1C that is what is happening, not that the beans go exo during or just before 1st. I previously attributed the high power requirement for the 180-185 band as peaking in the Maillard reactions (core temps would be a bit lower) , and that is probably a contributing factor, however I hypothesise that it is the most heat demanding process in roasting that is the cause: latent heat of vapourisation of water. It has been noted that pressures with a bean can rise to 15 bar during roasting, - perhaps that is a tad above for if we say 10-12 bar then the last of the water turns to steam at 185C and all of a sudden at that point the apparent specific heat of the beans drops significantly. I believe it this effect that is the cause. I have not read it anywhere else, so I cannot support it but that does not mean that it is not correct. Quote boar_d_laze wrote: Quote eric wrote: In an air roaster ET measures the air temp before it gets anywhere near the beans and airflow is one way from the ET measurement to the beans, so its difference with the bean pile temp is a good indication of beans overall absorbing or releasing heat. ET is taken in some place before the airflow gets "anywhere near the beans, and aiflow is one way.." You can't have it both ways. Since ET is measured far from the beans, we have no way of knowing what the ET is near the beans; and therefore, the ET as measured cannot be used as a reliable indicator of what's going on with the beans. Since exothermic reactions are a widely observed, well reported, peer-reviewed, and accepted part of coffee roasting, I think you carry a burden of producing compelling evidence if you want to deny it. With great respect, I don't think you approach that standard. BDL I know that the numbers I mentioned above for my last rebuild are showing a slight problem in the mixing as I usually get delta of 1-2C @ 130C and the problem I know is that I accidentally slightly misplaced a baffle in the mixing chamber, but that is not a problem! BTW that is a pretty new roaster! ![]() Eric
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Posted on 09/28/2013 11:02 AM
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I may be oversimplifying this. If you can kill the heat and keep the beans agitating, and an increase in temperature is observed, then wouldnt thst make them exothermic? This has been reported to me by my bean supplier, a probat user, and i have confirmed it@ home with my breadmaker roaster.
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