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Become your own specialty coffee home roaster with the Gene Cafe CBR-101 Coffee Roaster. Freshly roasted beans have always been considered as higher quality compared to store bought roasts. You’ll have complete control of the flavour you want and enjoy the 10 minutes it’ll take to roast one weeks worth. The Gene Café CBR-101 is designed for a household roaster, however Café Owners use it for the small to medium Café or Restaurant.
Gene Cafe CBR-101 Roasts the Beans You want to drink.
Being able to choose the green coffee you roast and ultimately drink has so many attractive benefits to it. A consistent style of roasting is easy to achieve with the Gene Cafe’s intuitive and simple design. Have the purchasing decisions to buy the green beans you wish to drink. Exploring the many coffee growing regions and varied flavours they offer. Rest your coffee and drink it at its peak.
Roasting Coffee with the Gene Cafe CBR-101
Manual time and temperature settings let you experiment to nail your perfect roasts but if you’re ready to go straight out of the box then automated functions make this roaster a reliable fixture in your roasting journey. Automated cooling down on every roast ensures you lock in the sweet aromas and flavors for when it’s time to brew. Keep a keen eye on the roasting progress with a clear viewable roasting chamber.
Unique Design for Quality and Portability
Unusual at first the off-axis innovative design assists in transferring heat through consistent convection without burning the exterior of the beans on the side of the roaster. The super lightweight construction lets you take this roaster anywhere you want, or simply back in the cupboard until the next roast.
Ideal for: Home Roasters. Hobby Roasters and small to medium cafe or restaurants.
Gene Cafe CBR-101 Coffee Roaster Features
Roast Profiling Control — Time and Temperature control knobs help you adjust to the degree of roasts that you prefer. Digital displays will alternate between actual and desired,
Easy to roast set-up — Straight out of the box you can use the preset profiles or adjust time and temperature during the roasting to control your ideal roast.
Perfect Cooling System — Automated or activated at the press of a button, cool ambiente air will swiftly be brought in to cool the system and beans down to lock in aromas and flavors.
Quiet and Portable Roasting Solutions — At around 65dB during roasting, it’s quieter than a coffee grinder.
Protection from Overheating — With a range of 190-250ºc its an important safety feature to ensure no unwanted fire hazards.
This product includes:
- Gene Cafe CBR-101 Roaster
- User Manual
The Specifics
| Batch Capacity | 300g green beans | 240g once roasted. |
| Power Supply | 230-240V AC 50/60Hz AU Plug |
| Dimensions | (W) 490 (D) 243 (H) 229 chaff collector included |
| Weight | 5.5kg |
| Colour | Black, Red |
| Heater | 1300W |
| Chamber Material | Heat resistant tempered glass tube (Pyrex©) |
| Heating | Indirect hot air (0~30 minutes) |
| Temperature Control | 0ºC - 250ºC |
* Rural and remote areas may attract longer shipping times but we make every effort to ensure we provide the fastest delivery times possible.
* Please note bulky/heavy orders to rural, remote & offshore areas may attract additional delivery fees.
Orders placed before 3pm AEST each day will be dispatched on the same day, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays and weekends.
Delivery times above are estimates only. Delivery times apply from the date of dispatch, not the date orders are received and refer to business days not calendar days. We make every attempt to ensure all deliveries arrive within the estimated time frames above however sometimes events occur that are out of our control. If your order is more than 2 business days late based on the above guidelines please contact us and provide your name, order number and date of order.
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Freight Protection
We strive to ensure that your delivery arrives safely to you, but we understand that sometimes accidents happen outside of our control.
By selecting Alternative Brewing's Freight Protection you will receive a priority customer support and priority replacement of your product if it arrives damaged. You will be able to add this option to your order in checkout.
What does Freight Protection offer?
1 - Priority Customer Service – as soon as you contact our team to submit your Freight Protection claim, you will be placed into a priority queue to ensure your claim is processed as quickly as possible.
2 - Advanced Shipping – to minimise downtime without your product, once we have assessed your claim we will ship a replacement to you before we have received the damaged goods back.
Making a Freight Protection Claim
- To assess your claim, you will be required to provide photo and/or video evidence of the damaged product.
- All Freight Protections claims must be made within 3 business days of receiving your product.
- Freight Protection does not apply to damaged packaging and only applies to the product itself.