Before creating this roast log, I've been working with a different template, but I was never really happy with it. I ran out of copies and decided it's time to switch to something different. So I looked around, but all I found seemed to be geared towards roasting on a professional machine, wasting space or lacking information.

This template is optimised for the way I roast. I generally use an app to track the current roast, but I use the logs for planning and looking up older roasts.

Here's a short list of design goals:

• I typically buy green beans in quantities that allow me to do 4 roasts, or multiples thereof. I generally do batch sizes of 225 grams, so 2 lbs will do just fine, as will 1 kg. When roasting another batch, I'd like to look at the previous ones. So one roast log sheet is supposed to be used for a single type of beans, which is why that information goes straight into the title of the page.

• There's a batch number field. This is not the number for this type of beans, but the number in a sequence of consecutive roasts. This is to interpret the timings in context of a cold or warmed up roaster.

• There's plenty of room for profile planning. It doesn't make much sense to structure this further (at least for me). I put stuff in there like when I want to run the roaster at which mains voltage, which level of roast I'd like to achieve, when I roughly plan to stop the roast.

• There's plenty of fields for timings. During each roast, I take timings at a number of temperatures. When reproducing a roast, this allows me to judge roughly where I am relative to the previous roast.

Feedback welcome, let me know what you think!