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The Solar roaster presents a number of
technological breakthroughs, thanks to computerized control and advanced
structural design. The Solar boasts a significant reduction in the amount of
smoke released during roasting, without the use of any filters (which tend
to get clogged and degrade).
The chaff separation system on the Solar is 100% effective. Combining two
different methods of roasting - air bed and rotating drum - the Solar
roaster takes advantage of each method’s strong points.
Conducting and radiating heat in four different ways allows individual
“thermal treatment” for all bean types during roasting, regardless of size,
density or humidity.
The Solar presents a unique ability to roast pre-mixed green coffee to the
highest standard of roasting anywhere. The automatic roasting profile
follows the processes of traditional coffee roasting precisely.
Advanced technology assures that the emulation of the traditional process is
completely and accurately repeated with every roasted batch. This means that
anyone can roast coffee to the highest standards with no effort or advance
knowhow, getting the best results every time. Changing roasting profiles
requires only the pressing of a button according to the user’s selection.
The Solar employs remarkably accurate, dual-temperature monitoring. This is
coupled with built-in roasting management software that allows modification
of the roasting process.
In fact, you can create any personal profile you can think of. The Solar
roasting management software remembers it for you, repeating it exactly.
This provides a constant optimization curve that brings you to an unheard of
quality level. With the Solar everyone can roast without inventing the wheel
every day.
The Solar shop roaster is marketed worldwide and has been adopted by many
trendsetting cafés and professional coffee shops as the ultimate roasting
machine. Using an automatic machine is the only way to roast in store, and
yet to maintain time & efforts efficiency.
Who should roast
coffee with the Solar?
Many places want to roast their own coffee for various reasons: standing out
amongst the many, stepping up professionally, expanding coffees available,
offering fresh coffee, raising coffee sales. These include: Cafés, bakeries,
coffee-chains, coffee academies, specialty coffee shops, retail venues,
supermarkets and, actually, any surrounding where time efficiency is
important to maintain – and that can be any existing business.
What are the benefits of shop roasting?
Quality: Roasting in-house is your own personal stamp of quality. By
roasting you own coffee you’re sending a clear and visible message to your
customers that you know what you’re doing; that you are a professional. Just
like restaurants with an open-kitchen, you should be proud to show your
customers the processes which transform the raw material – green beans –
into that wonderful elixir in their cup.
Freshness: The single, most important aspect about roasted coffee is
freshness. Roasted coffee beans oxidize and become stale over a very short
period of time. If you’ve ever tasted a fresh cup of coffee, you already
know this. No matter what the brew method is – coffee is best when it’s
fresh. With the Solar it’s as fresh as it gets.
Food cost: Roasted coffee costs more than green coffee. That’s a fact. And
once you start creating your own products,
Don’t I have to be a coffee expert in order to roast by myself?
No, you don’t.
We have many years of personal experience in the coffee business and we know
what it’s like to run a café – there are dozens of things to do, on a daily
basis, other than roast your coffee. The Solar shop roaster is intended
exactly for those who want to roast their own coffee but without needing to
read many books, attend costly seminars and gain years of experience. It
took us years of R&D until we created the Solar; our best proof of
excellence is our hundreds of satisfied customers and over 1000 machines,
roasting automatically, around the world.
The Solar is living proof that anybody can roast their own coffee.
In what circumstances would you recommend to use automatic systems?
In any circumstance that one has the need or desire for roasting by
themselves but not the time or experience to do so manually. Two issues
should be known:
Roasting coffee in a small batch manual machine requires skills, attention
and lots and lots of time.
The other point is the challenge of repeatability of the roasting results.
The fact is that the Solar produces better coffee than any other roasting
machine in the market and this fact was determined in a laboratory by
unbiased coffee specialists.
How does the Solar roast automatically?
The Solar is a synergetic machine – its’ different elements work together in
order create an artisan-crafted roast.
Three electric heating elements sit, meticulously placed, below a perforated
drum. A built-in roasting management software controls the roasting cycle,
while using the temperature as a reference point, as opposed to time as a
reference. During the roast, the Solar applies four different types of
thermal treatment to the beans – conduction, convection, thermosiphonic and
infra-red. The Solar is the only shop roaster in the world that combines the
two different methods of roasting – drum conduction and hot air convection -
during the roast cycle, while bringing forth the best of both methods.
Throughout the roast, every two minutes the Solar implements fluid-bed
roasting for exactly six seconds. We’ve placed the Solar’s blower at the
bottom of the machine so when hot air is forced upon the beans, it actually
condenses the air inside the drum, thus eliminating differences in bean size,
density and humidity. This is one of the reasons Solar is perfect for
roasting blended green coffee, in addition to single-origins.
What do we mean by “fully automatic”?
The Solar comes with roasting management software of our own, embedded
inside the machine. The Solar does not have to be connected to anything at
all; the whole of the software is embedded in the machine’s core system and
is controlled by an inboard small computer. The Solar allows superb roasting
of single-origins as well as blends, while all the time keeping profiling as
simple as pushing a button and achieving one of the main goals of every
roaster – consistency. Add to this the fact that the Solar performs in-drum
cooling and then stops automatically and you have the ultimate shop roasting
system available.
What about maintenance and service?
Solar was built, from start to finish, with you, the user, in mind. We aimed
at manufacturing a machine that will be little hassle, life-long lasting and
rarely needing replacement of spare parts. At the end of the day, a good
machine is a ‘smart and simple’ machine.
For this reason we’ve made the Solar service-free and maintenance easy.
Ordinary maintenance is the simplest you could ask for; we even use thumb-nuts
for quick and easy release on the detachable parts of the machine. No need
for special solvents, tools or technical know-how in order to keep the Solar
up and running for years to come.
How much coffee can the Solar roast?
The Solar has the capability to roast continuously. You are more than
welcome to roast with the Solar 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Many of
our customers till today use the Solar in order to roast up to 200 Kg (450
lbs) a month. Chances are that you and your employees will tire before the
Solar does. As long as the simple maintenance is upheld, the Solar is good
to go, regardless of roast capacity.
Can the Solar be used indoors?
Many places can simply have a duct (chimney) connected to the Solar and
tunnel the smoke to the outside; in other places this is not a possibility
at all without Avirnaki.
Roasting coffee indoors was, for a long time, a serious problem to face. It
usually involved setting up clumsy and expensive venting arrangements and
these, over time, deteriorate, might damage the roast quality, require
constant maintenance & service and – in general – caused a big headache to
owners and operators.
Thanks to Avirnaki – our revolutionary smoke elimination system – this
problem is no more. Avirnaki is a wheeled smoke trapping system which also
serves as a table-top for our shop roasters. It’s simple, easy to use,
requires the simplest cleaning procedures and makes roasting indoors easy;
for anyone, anywhere, any time.
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