with the many recipes on roast time, what is the best way to sort through the chaf and find the best roasters to use as models and emulate their recipes?
Tough call. I didn’t find the search feature under Dashboard/Users very helpful… probably cuz I haven’t used it in a very long time. Or maybe it’s just me… my search for Beans/origin was a bust.
That reduced me to manually pawing thru User roasts to find something similar in origin, batch size and roast level e.g. light, medium, dark, espresso.
If you have to scan thru manually I’d suggest looking at variety and roast level (light/med/dark or City/Full City/etc) while keeping in mind batch size. I’d suggest looking for roasts that have minimal changes in roaster settings (mine would be a poor starting place as I have a lot of P/F/D changes!).
And all the bla-blah above addresses Roasts as opposed to Recipes. If you save another User’s roast that looks promising (“Add to your stash”), you can then use the Actions option (3 vertical dots, far right) on the Roast History page and select Create Recipe. That will get you started.
After that be prepared to fall down the rabbit hole of Recipes!
Bruce
Edit: if you have a roast you like you can experiment with Playback. That option allows RT4 to follow all button-presses of a prior roast replicating all the P/F/D changes as a function of Time. The issue is that it doesn’t track Temp. That causes some oddities to creep into the profile. But it does a pretty good job. You may get in trouble if the room ambient is significantly different than than the original or the starting drum temp is different.
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It would be amazing to see the data more accessible to the users.
Cropster makes it real fun to analyze performance. Now with AI, we should be able to take all of that further into analytics.
As sort of a round about way to answer your question, Aillio has done featured recipes. And those can be helpful.