One of my first roasts dripped some water and smoked a little.Then I was advised to raise the fan speed. That was about 10 roasts ago and then it happened again with two previous 600 roasts yesterday. One thing else is that cooling pan filter held 95% of the chaff. The chaff container was virtually clean of chaff. Oh and drips of water underneath the rear of the R2. I raised the fan speed to 8 from 7 and started lowering the P from 9 to 7 after the yellowing stage. This was not necessarily to counter the water and smoke or the location of the chaff. I have to say though I am not sure about how the chaff compartment is fitting on my machine . It does not fit exactly flush. I do make sure it is locked in position as I do apply some pressure to close the pin latch that sticks out the back of the machine. I do make sure the filter handle on the small basket screen is not sticking out. I think that covers all the tips of advice.Since day one this is the same batch of green beans I have been roasting. These are all medium roast I am working to maintain. About 12 minutes total. Today I roasted again. No water and no smoke. The chaff container held most of the chaff. I did shake the green beans in a colander to shake off any loose chaff. These beans were dried with the pulp sugars . They were not washed off. Somewhere in this process somehow something is not quite right. What is it?
Update: Who else has discovered this. That if the chaff container is not flush or connected internally with the Bullet the exhaust fan doesn’t turn on. Where is this mentioned to be on the look out for…It looks connected but it might not be. Then there is the little problem, which I have seen written up, about the handle to the filter basket. To make sure it isn’t sticking out. Did you know though that it can work its way out of the basket while roasting and then of course it rubs and you wonder what the noise is. Now I make sure that little bloody handle on that basket is turned 180° from the insert point of the basket. I hope that makes sense.