Recipes Should Allow Sort by Bean Temp (and IBTS Temp)

I’ve been roasting with RT for nearly two years now. In general, it is FANTASTIC. Great work!!

One thing that I have always found a little annoying is that RT allows you to sort recipe triggers by time, or trigger type, but not by bean temp. I, like most Bullet roasters that I talk to, never, ever use time based triggers. I think temp triggers are far superior because they take into account the specific progress of each roast. Accordingly, all of my triggers are temp triggers, where the time is set to 0. But since RT doesn’t allow you to sort your triggers by temp, your recipes look confused when you try to add a step that occurs in the middle of the roast.

In my opinion, it would be huge improvement if you could sort recipes by IBTS bean temp.

I just ran into this tonight. The UI cost me an hour. I found an old roast that was close to what I wanted and that had used a recipe, I had then made two changes as the roast progressed. So I told Roastime to create recipe from that roast. The UI there was super confusing and kept not saving my times. Even when I got the times set right, sort by time didn’t work. Even more importantly I couldn’t just drag the recipe steps. So I thought I’d sort by temp, since I never use time anyway. No sort by temp. So I decided to just create a new recipe, but there is no easy way to go back and forth between the roast I want to copy (and I wanted to make one small change to) and a recipe. There is no way to print the roast from Roastime. Even copying it prints and awful ink mess due to the color used. But even if printed, the temps are not in the graph for the fan and power changes. So I finally had to copy down (on paper!) the entire set of changes and then clone the old recipe to modify, but because I wanted to move a step earlier, the steps are still out of sequence. Grrr. An hour of time. Now it is too late for me to roast tonight.

You might want to try RT4 instead. This new version improves on the recipe creator.