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Today I had my first ever fire when roasting with the gene cafe.
Good thing I always watch my roasts or this could have been a disaster. I was standing there watching and all of a sudden I see a piece of chaff burning. It went out immidiately so I think nothing of it. Then a massive smoke plume bellows out the chaff collector.
:siren: OH SHIITTT PANIC!11one :siren:
I yank the power and pull of the chaff collector and it’s jammed with chaff causing the temp to rise and set fire to the chaff inside.
Since I reacted so fast nothing happened, or the plastic stuff the chaff collector is made of can stand extremely high heat.
I always empty the chaff collector after 3 roasts. The problem was that the last 3 roasts was all dry processed coffees (DP Brasil, Yemen Mattari, DP Sidamo) so they released way more chaff than normally.
Just goes to show you that you should never leave the roast, this all happened over the course of 20 seconds. 
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