Hi Danny,

Yes, I'm very happy about the new roaster and my wife's support for quite an expensive purchase!

Thanks so much for answering my question about programs vs profiles! I'm actually in the middle of watching your video of roating in the analyzer (something I always do but now I'm getting curious about the gauges on the main screen and their purpose!) I AM learning a lot from the video. So far I've used RoastMaster mainly to keep a record of my roasts, and while I've manually recorded bean temperature with a cheap thermocouple embeded in the shallow layer of beans in my homemade TurboCrazy, I've yet to really use it as a means of targeting past roasts and using them as a guide for reproducing or tweaking the current roast. Part of the reason I haven't really pursued this is because of my primitive and unreliable temperature recording methods.

In the future, I plan to upgrade the roaster with first a bean temperature probe through the bean chute cover, and later use the autolog feature of RoastMaster preferably using a BlueTherm Duo or possibly an iCelsius BBQ. But for now, although it won't tell me absolute bean temperature, the K type temperature probe and display built into the Hottop is a tremendous improvement on my home made job. Right now my aim is to properly set up a profile with curves and curve templates for the Hottop LCD, fan and power.

Thanks for the great software and support!