Comments on: Christmas comes early for me

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:22:35 +0000

Any news on this Steve? Planning on selling them anytime soon??

By: Espressomattic

Espressomattic — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:38:09 +0000

Sneezing is an involuntary reflex action Cakes, so therefore, it wasn’t my fault! Case law mate

However, tell that to ACC who consider it self inflicted!!!!!

Sorry Steve, Back on topic

By: CakeBoy

CakeBoy — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:44:52 +0000

……. says Breako, a man who recently broke himself!

By: Espressomattic

Espressomattic — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:05 +0000

Now Steve you know I cannot make promises like that! I prefer to call it extreme machine testing…look at it this way, if it survives me, it survies anything. Oscar has been with me nearly two years and is still going strong..

Anyway, promises aside…cheers

By: Has Bean Steve

Has Bean Steve — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:56:10 +0000

Thanks rich useful stuff

By: RichW

RichW — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:38:43 +0000

We’ve been playing with one for about three weeks now – gave it one of our baristas to take home and go nuts with it and take notes. It just came back to the shop yesterday. So far it’s lived up to the hype. It’s about what you’d expect for US$300 – there’s been unevenness on just about every roast we’ve looked at. But we’re hoping more practice will make that mostly go away. It’s a useful training tool as well.

Limitations aside, our morning drip coffee today was from one of the sample greens that came with the machine. And it was better than a lot of what a good number of professional roasters have asked us to try recently. The barista who has been taking it through its paces has roasted on every profile a couple of times and even produced some decent tasting stuff on profile 1 (the flat burn(, which we thought was a useless button going in.

Still don’t know value of it as a sample roaster, but with the profiles it does have, it certainly seems to produce a repeatable roast, not a great one, but certainly something serviceable. At worst you’d have to say it’s the best $300 roaster out there.

By: Has Bean Steve

Has Bean Steve — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:36:14 +0000

Breako the 230-240v will be along in the new year (back me up here joe) I’m sure once its done there will be someone interested in Aus or NZ, but while that happens we hope we will be able to sort it out for you.

As long as you promise to not break it.

By: Espressomattic

Espressomattic — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:19:16 +0000

My dealry beloved who sepairs of me most of the time hadn’t read any of the post but I did show her the picture….

“Whats Steve doing with a Microwave?”

These poor uneducated folk. I tried to explain that asthgetically it would blend in with out Kitchen and the colour is just perfect. Unfortunaly I cannot post what she said to me….

Seriously though, is there any indication that once the 240V version is all good, will it be distributed as far as NZ or will it strictly be a US/Europe venture?

By: lastcoyote

lastcoyote — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:07:31 +0000

oops! sorry joe….wasn’t trying to diss your great design!
it looks great…i want one!

By: Has Bean Steve

Has Bean Steve — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:42:58 +0000

Hey Joe, I’ve read the bleeping manual so don’t worry (for those who don’t know this is TahoeJoe is the designer of the Behmor)

And yes microwaves do look a little like it but I think that just makes it blend into the kitchen better, more so than being a problem.