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Open Chat => Roasting => Topic started by: stdarty on January 05, 2014, 05:06:52 AM

Title: Quest M3
Post by: stdarty on January 05, 2014, 05:06:52 AM
Danny, From reading your posts, I have become intrigued with the Quest roaster. My biggest question is, do you find it annoying that it cannot do a 1lb roast?
Other that, what are your likes and dislikes?
Title: Re: Quest M3
Post by: Danny Hall on January 05, 2014, 10:03:33 PM
Truthfully, yes - I do. But, IMO that inconvenience is more than offset by the fact that I do back to back batches. I think I could crank out 6 batches to the Behmor's 1 batch, given that the Behmor needs a hour cool-down between batches. That's great for me, because I need to test Roastmaster constantly - I end up giving a lot of coffee away, so for the average home user that may not be such a big deal.

Now a disclaimer: I'm not saying the Quest officially supports back-to-back batches - I've never been able to find hard proof one way or the other, but I have done it for years with no ill effect - sometimes 10 in a row.

For, me the pros are:

Cons:

If you're trying to decide between a Behmor and a Quest, they're both excellent roasters, but I really feel they're for two different markets. The Behmor is more geared toward set-it-and-forget it. You can tweak it with time-shifts, but you just don't have the level of tweaking control that the Quest gives you. For some folks that's a pro - for others it's a con.

I have both, and wouldn't part with either one.