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Kind of a follow up to the "BBQ Smells" post below, but if you wanted to make smoke for an extended period of time outside the smoker, how would you do it? Is it just a question of wet wood and heat?

I've got several weekends of roadside BBQ fundraising scheduled over the next few months, and I'd like the smoke not only for smell but for its attention getting potential. I'd rather not burn up a cord of wood everyday either. I was thinking about a gas burner inside a trash can with some soaked wood chips, but didn't know if this would provide enough smoke, and for long enough. Any suggestions?

The meat would actually be pre-cooked on the CS and sold packaged, so no smoke there.
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You'd have to be careful, if the public see's a smoke generator, and not a "smoker" they might be turned off by it.

I know I'm not a fan of places I go to that I don't even see the smoke, then when I ask they say it was precooked and reheated and they don't tell me what smoker.

You could burn pellets, something as simple as a electric coil and a pan filled with pellets. Don't know how long it would go, but pellets smolder more in the 140 to 190 temp range, higher they start burning more.
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Originally posted by Pags:
To tag on one of your previous posts. How about a Smoke Pistol. If you get one, I'd like to hear from you how it cold smokes.


I may pick up a smoke pistol just for fun. At $50 it's not a lot of money, and I could convert a trash can to a cold smoker for fish and cheese, without the hassle of putting a baffle and ice in my CS. I just don't want to put fish in my regular smokers.

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