Comments on: Probat Rolls Out its Largest Electric Roaster to Date, the P12 E https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/01/19/probat-rolls-out-it-largest-electric-roaster-to-date-the-p12-e/ Business news for specialty coffee professionals Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:19:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Jim Cleaves https://dailycoffeenews.com/2023/01/19/probat-rolls-out-it-largest-electric-roaster-to-date-the-p12-e/#comment-481431 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:44:43 +0000 https://dailycoffeenews.com/?p=167262#comment-481431 I was roasting in Portland OR in the 1970’sat Coffee Bean International, later known as CBI. At that time We used a 1937 G75 Probat.
Across town one of the very few other roasters at that time, Kobos, had an electric-fired 12kg Probat shop roaster that I believe they converted themselves from natural gas, but I could be wrong about that- it may have been built as an electric by Probat.

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