Hi all,
A thought crossed my mind, but a bit of background first: I've owned a number of rudimentary smokers and wish to upgrade to a smoker that will give me consistent results while reducing some of my effort (Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of spare time to babysit my smoker). I've been researching commercially-available smokers for the past few weeks. I intend to do a mix of cold smoking as well as hot smoking. Naturally, I'd like to get that flexibility in one unit. My other criteria is that I don't want to jump through a lot of hoops in order to keep my cold smoking temperatures down. All of the units in my price range ($1,000) seem to be geared more towards hot smoking, since the heating element also generates the smoke and is located in the main chamber. My question is: Has anyone cut a hole in the side of their Cookshack and installed an external smoke generator? (I know....there goes the warranty!) In theory, it would seem that one would get the best of both worlds. In my humble opinion, from reading posts here and elsewhere on the net, there is a need for something like this. I'm not willing to wait for a manufacturer to design one, so I'm toying with buying a Model 55 and getting out the hole saw. I hope this gets me some feedback. Any thoughts? Thanks!
Paul
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