Whoa - hi Wendy your name sounds familiar! As far as this creating smoke it really depends on how long you roast your beans. The darker the roast the more smoke you'll encounter. But my guess is you have a sliding door out to a deck next to your kitchen so you could easily set it up on the deck table without the umbrella and as long as it's a rain-free day you can enjoy roasting outside without smoking up the house. At least that's how I've been doing it so far and it's super easy to get a great roast even if you're a beginner. -Ben :c)

I wouldn't do it. We put it on our sun porch and if we don't open the windows and put a fan on the room fills with smoke.

There isn’t any smoke when you roast but there’s some pretty strong odors that occur. I do not roast indoors unless I do it in a vented place where advanced directly to the outside. I rigged up a small enclosure with a pipe containing a fan leading to the window in the basement it works pretty well Enter an answer to this question.

No.

It can if you have a good hood vent over your stovetop! i set mine on a cutting board on top of the stove directly under the hood and roast away with zero problems!

The answer is a qualified Yes. If you like Medium Dark to Dark roast beans you will have light smoke to heavier smoke depending. Light roast beans will produce no smoke. Often you can buy or make a vent that is placed in a window for the roast period (about 15 minutes plus or minus). I like the smell of the smoke and it dissipates fairly quickly. In general I love my SR-800. I have two.

It will definitely create smoke my advice would be to use it on your range with the fan on to suck up the smoke. It will definitely still smell roasty but it won’t get as smoky inside.

Yes absolutely. We only do inside because outside the temp is hard to work with. We just put ours right under the kitchen vent fan turn it on and all smoke goes outside.

No.

It's good to have a window open and a fan running to move the smoke up and away. It's not a dense cloud of smoke but it does have odor.