Quote Originally Posted by rb336 View Post
for the roast-at-home folks -

I know the least expensive roasters are air-roasted. are there flavor advantages to drum roasting or is it just a volume thing? do the ones that allegedly filter the smoke really work?

At Westborns in RO they have an air roaster in the middle of the store and they used to let me run it for myself -- I would just watch until it reached the roast I wanted and hit the stop button
There is a different taste between air roast and drum roast. Drum roast requires a longer rest period for the beans.