Realcook 8" Cold Smoke Generator, Smoking on Any BBQ Grill/Smoker 7-8 Hrs

Worth the money

This was the first time we've tried cold smoking. We used this inside of our electric smoker...obviously, not turning on the smoker itself. At first, we set this on the bottom of the smoker on the usual drip pan. However, we went through 3 candles and it still wouldn't stay lit. After a little trial-and-error, we discovered that it needed a little more airflow underneath and moved it to stand on the woodchip burning area, which worked well. We purchased wood shavings, here on Amazon, and those worked wonderfully as well. Once lit and with airflow, this worked great. It is a very slow process and took about 2-3 days for the sausages to get done, but they look, smell and taste great! We'll definitely be using it for future sausage making.

Thin walls allow the burn to cross from the outer ring to the neighbouring one. If I fill it up it ends up burning across the width of the article, several channels at the same time. I control it by only filling up a channel until it approaches the contiguous one and then topping up after it has been burning for a while. It means I can’t set it up and forget about it as I did with my previous Pro-Q smoke generator.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: I tried it out and using a tealight to start seems to work better then other methods. It really did burn for just a little over 6 hrs. I like the long burn time with minimum material. The tubes use a lot of pellets and only burn about 2-3hrs. For large pieces of meat you have to refill smoker tubes several times.

Difficult to make it work properly with pellets