{"id":15,"date":"2007-09-09T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-11-25T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T14:02:17","slug":"new-hottop-roaster-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"New Hottop Roaster models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new Hottop home coffee roasters are now available and previous analog and digital models have been discontinued.\u00a0 The new models are KN-8828B and KN-8828P, known affectionately as B and P.\u00a0 There are extensive reviews of both on our site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/hottop.html\">B model<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/hottop-p.html\">P model<\/a>.\u00a0 Both are programmable roasters.\u00a0 The B allows users to modify four parameters during a roast:\u00a0 time, temperature, fan speed, heat element power.\u00a0 The modifications can be saved in one of three slots.\u00a0 The P model is a highly advanced profile roasting system allowing the user to write up to 10 programs, each with 8 segments that, using the parameters above, sets targets for each stage or segment.<\/p>\n<p>Both roasters can be set to &#8220;Auto&#8221; which will allow them to work like the previous generation, meaning after the roaster warms you will be prompted to pour in coffee beans, the roaster will follow a factory preset program.\u00a0 You will be able to increase time at the end of the roast or eject beans at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the original Hottop body and interior design is intact, and upgrade kits are available for owners of previous generation models.\u00a0 This consideration for existing owners is a reaffirmation of the previous solid design and allows users to have an upgrade path without the need to buy the complete new models.<\/p>\n<p>The new Hottop roasters and upgrade kits are available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new Hottop home coffee roasters are now available and previous analog and digital models have been discontinued.\u00a0 The new models are KN-8828B and KN-8828P, known affectionately as B and P.\u00a0 There are extensive reviews of both on our site: B model and P model.\u00a0 Both are programmable roasters.\u00a0 The B allows users to modify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roastmasters.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}