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Recording your first roast

A step-by-step guide to recording your first roast profiles from day one

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Written by Brian Zambrano
Updated this week

Goal: Successfully record your first coffee roast with RoastLog's profile tracking.

Prerequisites: You've added a roaster, and inventory into roastlog.com. You can log into RoastLogger, and it can read temperatures from your roaster.

It's time for the moment of truth—recording your first roast with RoastLog! This is where the magic happens, and where you'll start building your library of roast profiles.

Step 1: Prepare RoastLogger

  1. Open RoastLogger

  2. Log in with your RoastLog credentials

  3. Verify the "Device settings"

  4. Connect RoastLogger using the red icon in the upper right corner

  5. Confirm your temperature readings are displaying correctly, and updating once a second.

Step 2: Set Up Your Roast

  1. In RoastLogger, click Add to Queue to prepare your first roast

  2. Select one of the roastables you created earlier

  3. Enter the batch size you plan to roast (optional)

  4. Click Add to Queue

Step 3: Begin Recording

  1. When you're ready to start the roast, click Record from the main screen

  2. Your roast recording will begin immediately

  3. The timer will start and temperature readings will display in real-time, updating once a second.

  4. The Rate-of-Rise curve will automatically calculate and display

Step 4: Track Your Roast

During roasting, you can:

  • Mark important events (like first crack) by clicking the event buttons

  • Add notes at specific points in the roast

  • Watch your Rate-of-Rise in real-time

  • Compare to previous roasts if you're following an established profile, once you've saved some profiles.

Step 5: Complete Your Roast

  1. When your roast is finished, click Save

  2. Your roast will be uploaded to roastlog.com, in the background

  3. Navigate to the Roast Queue, to verify the upload status.

Step 6: Review Your Results

  1. Your completed roast profile is now saved in RoastLog

  2. It will automatically appear in your roast history

  3. Your inventory will be updated to reflect the green coffee used

  4. You can view and analyze the profile anytime from your RoastLog account

Congratulations on recording your first roast! You've taken the first step toward building a comprehensive roast history that will help you improve consistency and quality over time.

For your next roasts, you can use this first profile as a reference—RoastLogger allows you to display previous profiles as guidelines while you're recording new ones.

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