Cool your coffee faster by removing the drum: How to make an external cooling box for the Behmor Coffee Roaster
The BehmorA popular electric drum roaster designed for home use, with variable batch sizes (from 1/4 pound to 1 pound) and a smoke-reduction system. It has been modified and... ...more 1600 has a cooling cycle that gets your roasted coffee down to room temp but it takes a while which means your coffee will continue to roast for a bit after you press the “cool” button.
There is a better way…make your own cooling tray. Dan uses the simple combo of a colander, cardboard box and a shop vac to get his extremely hot roasted coffee down to an extremely mild room temperature in just a few minutes.
Please note that removing the drum from the Behmor before the cooling cycle is over can be dangerous so please make sure to have some good oven mitts or pot holders around if you are going to attempt this.
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I just purchased the DYVEE electric coffee bean cooler from Amazon. It cost me $86 including tax. It works astoundingly well. After doing a 9 oz. roast in my Behmor 1600 Plus, I pull out the drum (wearing leather gloves) and dump the beans in the cooler. By the time I put the drum and tray back in and start a cooling cycle to cool off the machine, the beans are room temperature. The cooler has a nice chaff tray at the bottom that works well, too. The metal muffin cooler with the cardboard box probably works well, but this one is stainless, well built and should last for years. The fan looks like a standard computer cooling fan, so if it dies one day, it should be replaceable. Just an FYI.
Yes – we sell a similar type with a slightly larger fan, and actually for less!
I just remove the basket from the Behmor after two minutes, then shake the chaff free and continue to cool by moving the basket up and down in the cool air. During the summer I rotate it in front of a fan. Goal is four minutes cool to the touch.
Thoughts?
4 minutes is a great target for cooling. It helps truly stop the roast, and boosts the coffee quality I think… versus the much slower cooling cycle leaving the behmor drum in place. Can’t think of how to improve on what you are doing, and we also remove the drum for cooling (after about a minute from end of roast