Coffee Tao

We finally found a proper roasting machine, a San Franciscan SF-25B. It’s in about a hundred pieces but it’s in solid shape and the price was right. We’ll palletize it and bring it over Snoqualmie Pass as soon as the snow lets us.

It’s an older machine, mostly manual the way I like it, with an aftermarket digital temp probe which will help with roast profiling. I need to clean it inside and out, install the new cooling fan motor that came with it, and then put it back together and hook it up to our ducting and gas line. Also, it’s painted black-on-black and we may strip the fittings and nameplate back to the original brass. A lot of work involved but it’s worth it for the right machine.

Here’s the “before” picture, showing the machine as we saw it in many pieces sitting in the back of a warehouse… (Forgive the poor image quality, I was using my iPhone camera in a darkened room.)