Sandbox Smart R1 Roaster [Review]
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2021
- Could this be the best coffee roaster for beginner and intermediate home coffee lovers? How does it stack up against the Gene Cafe and the Behmor?
I've spent a few weeks with this coffee roaster and used it for espresso, pour over and syphon, and it has delivered excellent results with very little manual work and input from me. I hope you enjoy the video!
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Very helpful information! Thanks!
Well, I am fairly new at roasting. I have done hours of research watching many talented people and their machines roast beans. I have studied all about timing, heat, curves, cooling, grinding, brewing and drinking coffee. I drink about 50 oz each morning and 30 oz at dinner. I have tried many different brands of specialty coffee and roasted my own beans. I have been checking out tons of roasting machines, drum and hot air. In the end, I have pretty much perfected the taste I like . As James Hoffman says, it is all about what you like. No two people have the same taste. Therefore, with my large stainless bowl and very hot air gun, I can roast some of the most pretty med roast beans with outstanding taste as well as dark roast you can't tell the difference in my beans and Starbucks dark beans. All about trial and error. I roasted some beautiful beans today at a med roast, total time nine minutes. In the end, I will keep my hot air gun and bowl and leave all those expensive machine to you all. Chef Jerry, Irmo South Carolina USA 4.12.2024
Nice review! I personally prefer the small footprint of the kaffelogic nano 7 and the terrific software for making custom profiles.
Wow, this is next level. Love to see how passionate and knowledgable you are about your coffee. Will send this to a friend who is obsessed with coffee. Keep up the great work and glad to have found your channel through Matt's slack community 💛😁
Thank you so much! I hope someday I can be as good a filmmaker as Matt 🤣
Wow that intro shot when your logo popped up was amazing! Your video quality went to a new level with this one!!!
I am looking into getting this roaster or the kaleido m1. Thete is a nice discount on the kaleido (not the artisan version) and this brings the price to a similar level. What are your thought about these 2 roasters
I enjoy roasting with the R1!
Out of curiosity, are you part of any coffee communities in Japan? Would love to partake in one if there are any! Looking forward to a video about your roast profile one day!
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Hi, i try ordering coffee bean in namamame but i have difficulties registering. How did u buy coffee bean there? I hope you can guide me with that. Thanks!
I don't work for the company and I don't remember the process of registering being difficult. Try using Google chrome and translating the website?
Great video Charlie, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
How is the roast like from the very first batch and say the second or third one? Is it possible to achieve similar roasts roasting back to back?
If you time your first crack properly, you can get almost exactly the same roast. I've had first crack happen within seconds of each other from batch to batch! Very consistent
@@homecafecharlie thank you!!
Nice hand held vacuum!
Could you share the model?
It was just a cheapy one from Amazon 😅
Hey! Heads up, ur amazon link says no inventory, so i have to buy it from amazon. plus i wanted red, your link has only black as option. is this a way for them to get out of paying you affiliate fee?
Oh... I don't know, it was working when I set it up but I didn't check the link for a while. I'll take another look, thanks for telling me 😉
I'd use half of that 100g dialling in XD can things handle multiple roasts in a row or per day?
Yes I used to do 3 or 4, took less than an hour and would last me a week or so.
Similar to the Ikawa Roaster. Ikawa is a bit more costly but comes with 6x50g of their own green beans. A comparison between both would be interesting. 😉
I'd love to get my hands on an Ikawa roaster as well!!!
@@homecafecharlie Ikawa’s app seems more intuitive from what I’ve seen
If im not mistaken ikawa maximum capacity is 50g which is only half of this roaster.
@@hushy9695 they have a model which does 100g. It’s on their site now at £970. The Ikawa handles chaff much more elegantly.
Hello can you share the name of the book appears in the video? Thx :)
It's in the description 😉
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I just got a Sandbox because of your video! Just curious how you bought beans from Namamame. Do they offer international shipping?
They might do but import/export is quite expensive so I would advise you to find a good green beans seller in your country. Good luck with it and I'm sure you will love it!!!
I wounder how long this roaster lasts.
what is the life expectancy?
I don't really know, but I've had mine for a while and it's still roasting beautifully. If there are problems I will make a pinned comment on this video.
I believe there's a newer version with 500grams?? What's the price for that one
That's the R2 model. I think it's in the $3,000 range and I'm hoping to get a look at one for a review, but waiting to hear back.
@@homecafecharlie Ouch! Will be hard to justify for an average home bean baker.
Gene Cafe is the best and cheaper. You can get replacement parts and only cost 600 us dollars. I have had mine for three years and love it. you can put it under the vent hood to control the smoke. Also the Behmor is also a very good with five roast profiles or manual roast and even cheaper. these two will roast up to 400grams also. I buy my beans from Burman Coffee or Sweetmarias. I just roast mine to second crack. Gene Cafe is all manual, you just set temp and time and roast to your liking.
Thanks for your comment! I haven't tried the behmor yet, but I have a gene cafe as well, and I prefer the sandbox. I get a much much better roast that I can control compared to the gene cafe which has no ability to track the roast temp over time. I agree that the yield is a bit small on the Sandbox, but the gene cafe is a 200g machine and I've gone up to 230g before I start to get uneven roasts.
havn't tried it I had a freshroast that only roasted about cup of beans but loved the tast and had 3 roast profiles. Don't see the one I had. it was bigger around and had a chaff collector in the lid. was a good roaster until I left it on an electric burner. lol
@@slipshankd1307 I am new to roasting and am considering the Gene Cafe. Is it the best roaster under $1000?
The roaster still going? Any trouble with it this far?
Sold it years ago 😅
Induction heat?
Yes, induction
I wanted something like this but I know that my smoke alarms would go bananas and I have no balcony or patio...
It hasn't set off my smoke alarm once! If you have an extractor fan it really doesn't put out much smoke unless you forget you are roasting coffee and don't hit the switch off button 😋
@@homecafecharlie idk man my smoke alarm goes off when I make burgers in the air fryer and when I roast coffee in the popcorn machine. I'm trying out a carbon filter in the hood and after that I'll try an exhaust fan in the kitchen window right next to it. If one of these work I'll probably pull the trigger and get me this roaster :)
Gene vs Smart R1 for first roaster ?
Smart R1 all the way. Lots more control. Only drawback is small batch size but the coffee will taste better
Sorry but the ROR that you are measuring in the Sandbox is actually not the same as Scott Rao describes. The Sandbox probe measures air temp outside of the drum. Therefore you don’t actually get a bean temp reading. Check out the Kaffelogic Nano 7e as an alternative.
Interesting, but are the two not connected? Smoothly declining ROR would also apply to drum temp but the beans internal temp would be connected? I need to learn more about roasting but have to make enough money from this channel to justify buying a roaster like the Aillio.
@@homecafecharlie - yes they are in a sense that the ET (environmental temp) will give you an idea where the roast will go - but doesn't actually tell whether you the bean is crashing or flicking or what the final drop temp is (crucial imo). It's those nuances that elevate a roast from the mass produced products one buys in the supermarket. The Aillio is an interesting roaster with it's induction heating - but without it's challenges either - induction heating doesn't really heat the air as in conventional gas roasters - so heating is more conduction based.
@@beanobsessedroasters9073 super useful information. Thanks for the comment. I want to get more into roasting but the entry bar is very high. Having this roaster is a great start that gets me and home espresso people interested. Next step for sure is working with a local roaster to understand more.
Does the Kaffelogic Nano 7e measure the bean temp? Also what is your view of Sandbox v.s. Kaffelogic, in terms of control and richness of data for advance profiling
Yes yes nice roaster and so on, but can we please talk about that vacuum cleaner??
Very useful for chaff and coffee grinds cleanup 🤣
@@homecafecharlie indeed! Where can I find this? Does it have a name? Need one badly! 😅
I have had a Sandbox roaster now for a month. I would never use it in the house, mine’s in the garage.
Interesting, I never had any issue with smoke in the kitchen. I have a tiny 30m² place in Tokyo so nowhere else to really use it 😅
@@homecafecharlie It’s not so much the smoke, it’s more the lasting smell.
Educational video but a 100 grams per batch capacity is insufficient for me, a one cup-per-day coffee drinker.
A batch takes like 12 minutes, just roast 3 times and you've got 2+ weeks of coffee, no? 😅
Only 100 g?! Kind of disappointing.
Save up and buy an Aillio Bullet... a REAL coffee roaster at a very good price...
100% want one of those! They are quite a bit more expensive, but when I start my roasting business I will get one to start off!
Reality Check - this Sandbox roaster is $898 in the USA and the Bullet is $3450. $3450 is considered a very good price?? Umm ok
@@planetfabulous5833 for a roaster with its feature set it really is. Commercial scale roasters are pretty pricey, maybe starting around $6-10k for a 5kg. If you're looking to roast smaller batches there's nothing else on the market like the Bullet.
$1k is expensive. gtfo with “budget”
For a roaster with this many features this is super cheap honestly. The next step up getting this much data on your coffee is probably the Aillio bullet which is five times the price 😉
@@homecafecharlie I know. I know. i’m just jealous that I coild never afford one. My passive-aggressive came out. 😅 forgive me.
I roast on My stovetop with a $30 electric drum that I got on wish.
@@Valspartame_Maelstrom lol it's all good. Either way, roasting at home saves you money cos roasted beans are 5x more expensive than green 😉
@@homecafecharlie and prices going up while the 1lbs bag is being replaced with the 10oz bag. LAME.