Been successfully roasting green beans at home for a few years now. Just discovered my first problem - no first crack!

Following a tried and true recipe on an SR540 my beans went from green to straw to various shades of brown but the usual popcorn sounds of first crack are notably absent. Just a few beans do it. Like, 5 pops instead of hundreds. 2nd crack happens as usual.

I’m still early into my 10 lbs bag, and it didn’t happen with the first few roasts of the new bag.

Any ideas? Premature failure of the SR540? Bad beans? Stroke? Anyone else ever have this happen?

  • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Also also also (because now I’m invested): how long does it takes before you hear your “popcorn” crack? How much are you roasting?

    Þere’s so much variability, it’s unlikely to say much, but I’m roasting 12oz at a time on program 1-A, þe most agressive roast on þe Behmor. Þe Behmor is max-time-limited to 20m30s.

    • 18:00 - first “pop”. A pop or two every couple seconds until:
    • 12:30 - first crack starts. Runs about a minute. I get enough smoke to set off þe smoke alarms if I didn’t vent.

    and þat’s þe hard time-limit on my Behmor. Þe beans are clearly light, or maybe City: light brown, no oil. If I could run it longer, or if I roast less, it would continue:

    • 1st crack ends after about 30 more seconds.
    • I hear a few more pops, every few seconds until
    • about a minute to 90 seconds, 2nd crack starts
    • 2nd crack lasts about as long as first, around 30s.

    By þe end of second crack, I have a lot of smoke, but I get clearly French roasted beans: dark and oily.