Do you have to use the bisquettes, or can we use apple wood or hickory wood,chips or sawdust for smoking?
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You need to use the bisquettes... you can buy them in a variety of hardwoods, but because of the design of the smoker, only bisquettes can be used.
1187050
If you use the automatic feeder you need to use the pucks, you can also use the chips aswell if you wish!
1187051
its designed to use the bisquettes. there are apple, hickory bisquettes. its the only way to get the smoke otherwise you will be opening it all the time to add smoke to it and looseing the heat and smoke at the same time.
1187052
the bisquette is pretty much mandatory, the bisquette feeder feeds the heater at the end of the chute, then once burned, the next bisquette fed pushes the burned one into the pan of water, the burner is only as big as a bisquette....it is the key to this smoker, not using bisquettes makes this smoker pointless.
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I would stick with the briquets. It would be possible to put a pile of chips on the hot area of the smoke generator, but since briquets come in those flavors I would not chance making the mess.On my 2nd Bradley... I wore #1 out last year after 6 years of good cooking....
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You have to use the bisquettes, because the burner of the smoke generator is an element that has around 2" x 2". You cannot use wood,chips or saw dust.Hope this answers will help you make your decision.
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you have to use the bisquettes (they are made to fit the loader) anything else would jam up the feeding mechanism. The bisquettes come in a large variety of flavors; you can switch out while smoking. Each bisquette lasts for 20 minutes..PaPa Q
1187056
You really would have to use the bisquettes. To use your own, you would have to open the door and place the chips directly onto the hot end of the feeder. The heat loss from opening the door would not be worth it and you really only have a space of maybe 3" by 5" that is heating the wood. And it is flat so you could not pile many chips there. In theory,if only smoking for a short while, you could pile chips up and settle for maybe an hour of smoke. If you keep opening the door, it takes a while to return to 225 so you'd be screwing up the cooking times.
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There are posts on various forums describing how to make your own bisquettes from sawdust. Do a search on "make bradley bisquettes". Wood chips would not be a viable option, as noted by Jeffrey, dragon, and Robert.You would have to determine what your time is worth to go that route. For me, the bisquettes are not that expensive.Larry
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No. Wood-based chips would give you a smoky flavor. Charcoal-based briquettes could give you an odor. But this is ceramic material and it is neutral in terms of emitting any odor or flavor whatsoever. It's main purpose is to more evenly distribute heat and mitigate flame flareups.
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Your answer is yes you can use any type coal or shisha. All your doing is cooling what ever your smoking. We used alcohol in the 60s don't no what it did but we used it. Have a nice day.
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It depends on how thick your food is. The tray sits on top of the wood chips and you just need to be sure that you can still slide the cover of the smoker over everything. Also, the granulated ones get smokey a lot faster. Other than that, I don't see why not.
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I use briquets but I'm sure wood type charcoal would be fine.My Smokey mountain works great but I have one serious complaint that the top cover does not overlap when it is on and if you leave the smoker out in the rain without the cover, the bottom will fill with water and you will have a big mess to clean up before you use it the next time. Shame on Weber with this design flaw...I'm not real happy with this smoker for this reason.
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Depends on the size of the smoker. As Barry M. said, the chips are very fine. They're designed to work with compact stovetop smokers such as the Cameron I use on my electric stove. You use only 1 to 2 tablespoons of chips at a time, and in most cases, smoke things for an hour or less. You'd run through a lot of these little chips and most likely get a very unsatisfactory result.
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Absolutely! Use like a regular BBQ. Smoke depends on fuel you use. I use mesquite chips for extra flavor! Enjoy!
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No, I use charcoal and then add hardwood "chunks" (not chips) that I purchase from a Walmart and they really add to the flavor of the meat I smoke in my Dyna-Glo. Just be sure and soak them in water for a couple of hours before you get started. That way they will smolder rather than burn up. You can get hickory, mesquite, cherry, apple, and other hardwood chunks for different flavors.
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You do not have to use wood chips if you don't want to. They are mainly to add flavor.
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Hi Alvin! It is my understanding that you need the granulated wood chips. When you put the granulated wood chips in it causes a lot of smoke, so, I imagine if you used regular wood chips the smoke would be ridiculous. I wouldn't try it. Hope this helps.
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You can use wood or charcoal. I mainly use Kingsford but have use wood chips once in awhile to add flavor
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It doesn't smoke as well inside the oven. You would need to turn on the oven on high enough to burn the wood chips. And then you have to turn the oven down once the wood is done burning. The smoke should be contained enough in the smoker as to not mess up your oven. Instruction said you can use open campfire so I don't see why not.
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I would be cautious with the amount you use because you don't want it overpowering, but I've used hickory chips with good results......happy smoking
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Hello,I use regular wood or charcoal. I'm sure you can use just about anything.
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You can smoke harder cheeses (I wouldn't do soft cheese like Brie). Just use half the fire box, and use a small charcoal fire with wet chips.
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The wood chips that I've purchased from Home Depot come in a variety of flavors and are actually perfect for this smoker. I use them all the time! They're about the size of a dime in circumference. Most pieces are 1-2 in in diameter
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I have never worked with a stove top smoker from what I've seen the stove top smoker chips are smaller then the standard wood chips I'm sure you could use them you would just ha email to put less in.