Thank you for the reply. It still leaves me uncertain but it does get me off in the right direction. I will say that my first smoker was a Masterbuilt and after 3 months it caught fire and burned my house down. Now while it seemed to give me good smoke flavor, I was hesitant to buy another one like it due to what happened so I checked around and got the Green Mountain. It is a very good smoker/grill but I have never thought that it had as much smoke flavor as the Masterbuilt did. It would be nice if there was a forum member who has had both and can confirm for me that the CS smokers will definitely give me more smoke flavor than the Green Mountain but I may not get that lucky.