The best way to make sure you have a great smoke at any time is with these pieces of equipment. They include smoke generators, grill inserts, smoker boxes, etc. You’ll also need thermometers for checking the temperature of your grill or smoker before putting on food. With all these great smoking essentials, you’ll never want to go back!
Smoke Generators and Grill Inserts
- Smoke Chief: The Little Chief and Big Chief Smokers creators are proud to introduce a new product that will revolutionize your smoking experience – an electric cold-smoke generator Smoke Chief. The hopper is where you load up your pellets. The electric heating element ignites them so that they burn quickly. When you depress the plunger, it will push pellets toward your igniter. The metal smoke pipe should be cleaned often to avoid tar buildup that may clog it. The provided screw-like tool is used for this purpose, so keep an eye out and make sure you clean as needed.
- Smoke Daddy: The Cold Smoke Generator from Dennis Correa is a genius device for creating your own cold smoker. The device is made up of an upright metal cylinder with wire mesh at the bottom for holding wood chips and removable caps on both sides. Place your lit charcoal in the canister, then fill it with un-soaked wood chips or pellets to get started. Or the bottom of the jar can be removed and then lit from below with a blowtorch. Blowing smoke into the smoker is achieved by turning on a blower motor.
- Smokenator 1000: It’s hard to find a more iconic image than the one of an old man smoking on his porch, with smoke billowing out behind him. But for many people who want that experience but don’t have time or space restrictions-like me! – the Weber kettle grill was a perfect choice. But here is one problem – maintaining a consistently low temperature was pretty hard. The new Smokinator 1000 makes it easier than ever to turn your kettle grill into a smoker. It has all of the features you need, including a water pan and charcoal partition so that smoking can be done low-and-slow for up 6 hours on just one load!
Freestanding Smoker Boxes
The many varieties of smoker boxes available can be a bit overwhelming. You can find different types of smoker boxes available today – from stainless steel to cast iron models made specifically designed by professional chefs who understand what makes great-tasting food.
Under-Grate Smoker Boxes
- Best of Barbecue Disposable Gas Grill Smoker Box with Chips: If you are using a Weber gas grill, this box can be placed between the Flavorizor ™ bars.
- Companion Group V-Shaped Gas Grill Smoker Box with Pellet Tube: The pellets are fed into the smoker through a sleek metal chute, so you can refill your grill without taking off all of its components.
- Smoke in a Cup: Just fill up a disposable aluminum foil cup with hardwood sawdust and place it under one of the burners on high heat until you see some lovely gray clouding, then reduce the temperature.
Over-Grate Smokers
- Mo’s Smoking Pouch: This is a great way to smoke food without using wood chunks. Just fill the mesh bag with pellets or chips and place it on top of your grill grate next time you want some good old-fashioned barbecued flavor.
- Smoke Daddy Vortex Cold Smoker: The flying saucer design helps pellets burn for up to 10 hours when used with the cold smoking process.
- A-Maze-N Tube Smoker: Once you’ve filled the perforated metal tube with hardwood pellets, light one end and place it next to your food. The smoke from these burning will quickly fill up any enclosed space. They come with 6-, 12-or 18 inch models that can last you up until 6 hours. It’s been designed with both hot and cold smoking in mind, so you can use your gas grill. The company has a line of smokers intended to produce the perfect smoke while burning pellets or hardwood sawdust while cold-smoking.
- Moistly Grilled Smoking Platform: You can get a perfect piece of meat or fish by using a moistly grilled metal box to create those perfect smoky flavors. A flat metal box with perforated grates and water or other liquid held in reservoirs at each end is great for generating steam to cook foods without over-cooking. Fill up your smoker’s chamber, place wood chips or pellets into it and start your process.
- Best of Barbecue Smoke Pucks: These handy devices can be moved around on your smoker to direct the charcoal-blackened fumes where you want them most.
- GrillGrates: Grillers have long used raised rail aluminum grates to improve their grilled food’s appearance and taste, as well as the overall quality of smoking. But you can also use these same types for smoking purposes. Simply sprinkle hardwood pellets or chips in valleys between each set of grill bars.
Thermometers
Remote and wireless thermometers are great for grilling because you can monitor your food from a distance. This is perfect when cooking with gas, but not so much if using charcoal or wood fuel.
Among instant-read thermometers, you can use Thermapen and ThermoPop by Thermoworks or Pro-Temp and 2 Way Thermocouple Thermometer by Maverick.
Remote or wireless thermometers are a great way to ensure accuracy when cooking food. The best part is that they can be easily monitored from anywhere in your home or office with just an internet connection. The most popular of them are: the Long Range Wireless Dual 2 Meat Probe BBQ Smoker Meat Thermometer by Ivation, Redi-Chek, Remote Smoker Thermometer, Wireless Barbecue Thermometer Set, and Wireless BBQ & Meat Thermometer by Maverick, iGrill Mini, iGrill Mini Pro Ambient Temperature Probe, and iGrill Pitmaster by iGrill, Talking BBQ Thermometer by Oregon Scientific, ChefAlarm, ThermaQ 2-Channel Alarm, and Dot Cooking Alarm by Thermoworks and Temperature Monitoring System by Tappecue.
Temperature and Draft Controllers
If you have a ceramic cooker or charcoal water smoker, make sure to invest in an accurate temperature controller. It will help keep your food smoke-free and perfectly cooked without sacrificing anything else.
BBQ Guru is the industry leader in BBQ technology. They are an innovative company that specializes in making high-quality products for barbecues, including its best-selling product: The DigiQ DX2 and PartyQ which can get up to 14 hours of burn on one batch of charcoal. An alternative brand is the Pitmaster IQ.
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