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Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Tue 27 Jul, 2021 7:25 pm
by kiwipom
Does anybody know of an accurate comparison table showing how the Kaffelogic roast levels compare to the often quoted US roast descriptions? (cinnamon - city - city+ - full city - vienna - french - italian etc.)
Re: Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Thu 29 Jul, 2021 1:07 pm
by BenN
following, interested to see the comparison.
I think US description is based on colour?
Where the KL level is based on often end temp (common if not changed certain profile parameter )
Re: Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Sun 01 Aug, 2021 8:34 am
by Barry O'Speedwagon
Yeh, it really depends on the profile being used (and the beans). For some of the profiles I use (e.g. Steve's MD3) a roast level of 3.3-3.4 looks 'Full City' to me. But 1.8 on Raost v3 is lighter....but nowhere near as much lighter as I had expected before trying it (maybe the light end of City?)
Re: Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Tue 19 Oct, 2021 7:49 pm
by kiwipom
Would it be possible for opinion from kaffelogic on this question?
Re: Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Fri 22 Oct, 2021 1:12 am
by peleep
i have multiple times expressed to Kaffelogic that i am unable to achieve city+ or a french roast using their standard profiles, even marked up to 5.8, "dark " by their terms.
I have also asked many times why they do not also deploy a colour based roasting guide.
they have not responded to me nor comment as to why/why not they prefer to be log based.
"logs look to be as expected" is the standard response i receive when i ever i enquire.
Re: Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Fri 22 Oct, 2021 11:51 am
by fnq
hi peleep
Seems strange you cant get dark roasts. Given a 'normal' log with ample power, on a number of different beans anything over 5 Roast level on mine is certainly almost black with lots of oil exuded from the beans... for visual comparison on the sweet marias webite go
https://library.sweetmarias.com/using-s ... -of-roast/
similar to number 14
Have you tried different beans ? and tried the superdark or MD profiles , or maybe dark and steady profiles
I agree with BarryOSpeedwagon above, in that different profiles and different beans produce different colour ranges .- so it makes it hard for a definitive comparison across the board.
I don't roast to those levels anymore, so can't really provide any more useful ( or otherwise)input , sorry.
I have a 220 volt machine (aus/nz spec)
Re: Kaffelogic roast level vs. US roast description
Posted: Mon 30 Dec, 2024 2:25 am
by vibhorkwatra
anyone from kaffelogic listening?