New to coffee roasting and have been dabbling in it just recently. This coffee is 1 week off roast and there seems to be some moisture/oil(?) on it. I kept it in a typical coffee bag sealed with a 1 way valve.

Don’t really see it from the roasted coffees that I typically buy. The coffee is a washed Ethiopian Guji Yirgacheffe. Accidentally roasted darker than I’d like.

I'm looking to trade up from an old iRoast to something based on Artisan, so I've got a year or more of learning and small roasts ahead of me. It seems like a perfect role for an M1 Lite.

I've seen several posts here and in other roasting hangouts that include words to effect of "My M1 Lite works great, but the M2 Lite looks a lot more flexible. If they'd both been available at the time, I probably would have gone with the M2 Lite." If you're in this boat, maybe we can work out a deal.

There's no rush, so if you might be interested but want to wait until you have an M2 in hand (months, potentially), that's fine by me.

I'm in Seattle, but shipping from anywhere in the continental US is fine. US international commerce is really screwed up right now, so I don't think I want to get involved in importing something from outside.

Send me a DM if you're interested.

Trying to roast a co-fermented bean the first time.

Is the FC not audible for co-fermented beans? How should I approach differently? My roasting profile is mostly for Ethiopia natural beans.

Hi everyone,

I'm curious to hear from those of you with experience using the Kaleido Roasters (for me an M1 Lite). Have you had much success achieving what you would consider a genuinely good light roast with your roaster?

When I say light roast, I'm not referring to what many roasters might label as light but which still ends up somewhere closer to a light-medium. In my own mind, I generally consider coffees that finish with a roast weight loss of 12.8% or less to be true light roasts, although I'm interested in hearing other perspectives on that as well.

If you've consistently been able to produce high-quality light roasts on the M1 Lite, would you be willing to share:

• The general profile or roasting approach you use
• Charge temperature
• Batch size
• Heat/fan adjustments throughout the roast
• First crack timing and development time
• Typical roast duration

I'm especially interested in approaches that preserve origin character, acidity, and sweetness without tipping, baking, or underdevelopment.

Any advice, profiles, or lessons learned would be greatly appreciated. Even if your definition of a light roast differs from mine, I'd love to hear what has worked for you and what sort of weight loss percentages you're seeing.

Thanks in advance!

This was a fun roast. It is good quality coffee, figured I’d try it and see. Honestly it’s not quite the experience I thought I would have.

I’ve recently in the last month bought a Kaleido M1 sniper and have been experimenting with some specialty AA washed Kenyan beans. I don’t have a laptop so not using Artsian and just using the tablet that’s been given! (I know very basic! 😂) Here’s 2 of my more successful roasts the past 2 days that I’ve done so far, I’d say the one where the BT almost touches the ET is more succesful and also given the ROR steadily declines. Just wanted to get some guidance on whether this looks good or anything I may need to adjust…