A very good Smoke Generator for the price.

I wanted a smoker similar to my son's fancy Bradley with the automated smoke generator. I found this little item instead. I paired this with a Masterbuilt Sportsman Elite smoker and I have something very similar to the Bradley at about 1/2 the price. The neat thing about this item is that you can really do a cold smoke. Just attach this to your smoker with a 3" flex dryer vent and the smoke generator will be a couple of feet from the smoker. By the time the smoke gets into the smoker, it is about the ambient air temp. In fact, I smoked cheese the other day and the temp inside was just 35 degrees -- about the same as the outside temp. Another advantage to this is that it uses regular wood chips which are a lot cheaper and available than the Bradley wood biscuits. The only negative I have had with this is that you periodically need to make sure the wood chips in the chip holder are not sticking together. Because of its design, the chips are in a column directly above the heating element. The idea is that as the chips burn, the ones above continually fall onto the heating element, turn to ash (which falls into the ash pan) and then are replaced by the ones above. In practice, as the chips burn, the ones above sometimes stick together and don't fall on the heating element. You know when this happens because the amount of smoke generated is very light. The solution is to take something like a long screwdriver or knife and poke the chips in in the holder, breaking the jam and allowing them to feed properly. This is one area where the Bradley is better designed and doesn't have this problem. But with a little manual effort, you can have a versatile smoke generator at a much lower cost.

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