I completed one of my “school’s-out” tasks today: I built a venting system for my coffee roaster. Now I can roast inside without filling my condo with acrid smoke!

(Well, too much acrid smoke. The seal between the exhaust attachment on top of the roaster and the vent tube isn’t perfect; I need to get some kind of female-to-female adapter for that connection.)

It turned out to be pretty easy. I cut a hole in a piece of plywood that I stuck a dryer vent draft blocker into. That’s attached to one end of the dryer vent tube with a worm drive clamp. The other end goes into an adjustable elbow, attached with another worm drive clamp. The Hearthware I-Roast 2 has a connector for hooking up to the female end of a 4″ dryer vent tube, so that just goes into the elbow, and that’s that.