I wrote another review but I’m not sure what happened to it. This is a great home roasters and I’ve run though 8 roasting cycles with it now so I feel like I’m starting to get familiar with it. I did have another hot air style roaster before which put out a lot of smoke during the process. That was an outside or in the garage type roaster. By compassion this roaster puts out almost no detectable smoke. I still roaster under my range hood but, at least so far, feel like I don’t even need to really do that. I do give it a really good clean between roasts, so maybe that helps?

On cleaning: it is relatively easy to clean with the exception of the cleaning element in the back which are behind some protective bars. They do supply a cheap paint brush to help clean, but even with this and a hand held vac its still a bit challenging.

I do appreciate being able to roast a pound at a time. My old roaster could only do maybe 1/4 lb which means far more time spent roasting. I go through at least a lb per week so this works well for that kind of volume.

I’m not getting too deep into making manual roasting profiles yet, so the pre-programming is very helpful in making a specific roast more repeatable.

All in all I’m very happy with this roaster so far. I need it to last two years to break even on the price (saving on buying green beans vs the pre-roasted beans I used to get.) During that time I‘m looking forward to some spectacular coffee! :)