No smoke below 300

Shouldn't be any reason it won't smoke at 200 or 225, given enough time. Did you dangle a temp probe into the box to check the temp while seasoning ? Move the wood to the front of the woodbox and over the holes and see if that helps.

My Smokette smokes great below 200.

Welcome to the forum.

Agree with GLH! Have an AmeriQue and it smokes great below 200*. If the problem keeps up call Cookshack customer service Monday morning and they will get you fixed up. Make sure you wood is not covering the holes in the wood box.

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GHL Cover holes?
tigerfan don't cover holes

Now im confused.
tried @ 235', smokes great. I will try moving wood to front of box...... i am only using two to three peices.
I am doing a brisket Sunday and dont want to have any problems....

First I'd call Cookshack's tech guy.. he's great.

Next, there have been some reports of poor combustion of wood in Smokettes.. don't know if this same problem happens with the AQ. Mine works fine. But, I had intermittent problems with wood just charring in my 008. What I did was to bend the bracket that the smokebox sits on so the bottom of the box is closer to the element.. that took care of the problems with the 008. I always get full combustion of the wood now.

I believe there is a caviet tho.. don't let the element touch the bottom of the woodbox..

Check and see if that may be the problem. Mine is now about 1/4" from the bottom of the woodbox.

Thank you smokenque I will look at that this morning.

If thats ti i'm smok'in

I've had my Amerique now for over a year and I remember when I was breaking it in I also had trouble getting it to smoke, it eventually "woke up" and smokes good now. But with certain woods I think depending on how hard they are I have trouble getting them to smoke at 200, at 225 no problem. Also if you are just smoking for a short period of time like 2 hours at 200 you might not get much smoke. For cold smoking something like salmon/lox since it is only on for about a half an hour I use chips, they work good for a short smoke.

Yes, I put the wood chunks right over the holes and toward the front of the woodbox in my Smokette. There are other holes for air. My element does not touch the woodbox. Might be different in an AmeriQue.

Good luck.

OK spoke to the tech Guy Stuart. Great guy..... He said just pull up on the element and it is ok to touch Smoke Box. I did that gently
yesterday and got one side to burn great @225'. I guess I will work on the other side tonight..... Thanks

Well Ribs again. 225' for 4hrs and both chunks of Hickory were charred but not asked. Looked like Charcole.
I guess my question wood beeee What if the wood was still green. It seems random how it burns. Sat. I had one piece Ashed and one piece Charred. I will try wood I have had in bucket for a year and see what happens. The wood I have been using was from Cookshack.