{"id":107,"date":"2011-01-07T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2011-01-07T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T17:57:42","slug":"i-roast2-swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"i-Roast2 Swan Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">The i-Roast2 was thought to be a goner about a year ago.\u00a0 Although many home roasters covet this product, the US importer\u00a0 told us more than a year ago that it was unlikely they would be bringing it here any longer.\u00a0 They had rejected a defective shipment in 2009 and that seemed to be the last batch.\u00a0 But, one final shipment has arrived in the US and we have been informed once again that this may be the last.\u00a0 We have secured a number of these roasters and expect them to move quickly.\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">If  you have been waiting for the return of the i-Roast2 don&#8217;t wait long  too long to act ! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">This round of roasters is identical to  those in the past with the exception of the two preset profiles. In the  past one of those profiles was intended for a fast or dark roast, the  other for slow one. Now, the profiles have been replaced with one preset  for high chaff coffees, the other for low chaff coffees. These  designations are being made by i-Roast; they say Preset 1 for high chaff  coffees is exemplified by Central and South American; Preset 2 is for  beans with medium to light chaff such as Arabic, African, Indonesian and  decaffeinated. Decaffeinated coffees are very low in chaff but guessing  chaff based on sweeping origin generalities just is not accurate.  Preset details are as follows.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"iroast2-newpresets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/iroast2-newpresets1.jpg\" alt=\"i-Roast2 New Presets 2011\" width=\"480\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/iroast2-newpresets1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/iroast2-newpresets1-300x73.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/span><p id=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">i-Roast2 New Presets 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113\" title=\"iroast2-oldpresets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/iroast2-oldpresets1-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"i-Roast2 Former Presets 2009\/10\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/iroast2-oldpresets1-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/iroast2-oldpresets1.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">i-Roast2 Former Presets 2009\/10<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\">The   i-Roast 2 by Hearthware is  profile programmable    home coffee  roasters and has a real fan base. This i-Roast2, which replaced the  i-Roast a couple of years ago, adds several desirable    features to an  already well-established and popular product. This unit is fairly  sophisticated, inexpensive and is one of the few roasters capable of  producing dark roasts for the home roaster.\u00a0 Get them while you can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The i-Roast2 was thought to be a goner about a year ago.\u00a0 Although many home roasters covet this product, the US importer\u00a0 told us more than a year ago that it was unlikely they would be bringing it here any longer.\u00a0 They had rejected a defective shipment in 2009 and that seemed to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}