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Hi Guys,

I'm new to HR and also to roasting. I purchased a Kaldi Wide about a month ago as well and have ten roasts on it thus far. Since I'm new to roasting I wanted a roaster that was totally manual / reliant on sight and smell to learn the roasting process. I also wanted to be able to roast around a half pound at a time.

So far I'm really happy with my Kaldi. Mine didn't include the stopper so I'm basically just using a stainless pan to cover the funnel. Seems to work just fine. I'm also using a 10,000 btu stove. Maybe a little overkill?

I'm ten roasts in. I had an issue with the analog bean probe sticking after six roasts. At that point I replaced it with a thermocouple and a second for et where the top left cold was in the rear of the roaster. I'm running them through a Phidget 1048 and using Artisan. I'd be more than happy to share some profiles as things progress.

Here's a photo of my current setup.

Cheers!