On Fri, 25 May 2007 21:37:08 -0400, Jeff wrote:

Most of the home roasters are slower and produce less smoke, but the
experts will say that's a fatal flaw and the best flavor needs a
faster roast. Life is always a compromise!

Back in the 70s and 80s there used to be 3 or 4 commercial coffee
roasting operations on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.

If the wind was out of the west and you lived in Manhattan, you could
always tell when one of them had overdone the roasting.