my bean cooler sucks

well, it sucks by design. what i mean to say is that it does a poor job of cooling the beans.

i think so, at least. i was pretty sure, now i'm less sure. when i did the cleanup, i saw lots of broken down chaff in the bottom, which implies that it may have been cooling better than i thought. at least, it had some decent air flow.

it's based on the shop-vac/paint-bucket/strainer design, only mine's a dust-devil/protein-powder/deep-fry-spider design. in other words: smaller capacity and less power.

when it felt to me (i stirred with my hand instead of the recommended wooden spoon) that the beans were not cooling, i dumped them into a strainer and did the two-strainer-cooling dance. back and forth and back and forth until i felt they'd had enough.

this had the added benefit of removing much of the chaff and also revealing a little piece of concrete or stone that would surely have made rocky very, very sad.