by Puck » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:58 pm
I get an immense amount of pleasure out of home roasting, so if it's something you're interested in, I can thoroughly recommend it. I started out with an iRoast, but quickly progressed to the Hottop and haven't looked back.
As far as smoke goes you definitely don't want to be using a Hottop indoors without any provision for smoke extraction. I think doing so would easily rate a 10 on your 1-10 scale.
Like you, spending time in a freezing shed in the depths of winter is not my idea of fun, so I came up with a little (ok big) invention to help extract the smoke so I could roast indoors. This has been a total success to the extent that you would never even know it had been used, so would score no.1 on your scale. My extractor has three speeds, and the lowest one is more that enough to extract everything.
I assume this also helps with consistency since, in a house with central heating, the ambient temperate is going to be pretty much the same regardless if it's summer or winter.
Anyway I hope this encourages you to give it a go.
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