You do need to have the flame burning for at least five or six minutes sometimes longer depending on if it’s windy or not – and what type of wood. Pellet smoker tubes can still have a place in your tool box – they are a great way to supplement smoke and precisely control which flavors make it into your food. Dimensions wise, this tube is 12 inches long and 2 inches wide, which is enough to hold enough pellets for about 5 hours of consistent smoke.

Once the smoke production has started, you must decide whether to keep the smoke tube on the grates or change its position. As a bonus, it comes with extras to help you out when you grill, including a cleaning brush, food tongs, and hooks to hang the tube from a smoker or a grill. We have got everything covered for you, from product reviews to smoking, grilling, and searing techniques, along with exciting recipes for a delicious meal. One of the biggest challenges with cold smoking is exposing flavored smoke to your food without heating your cooking chamber.

The texture of cheese starts to change around 80f, so it's important that we set up the smoker to maintain a temperature well below that. Time-Taking Ignition: To ignite the pellets inside it, you need to constantly provide it direct heat for 10 minutes or 15, depending on the tube size.

This may be the best smoke tube for pellet grill users, it’s 12” size is ideal and it’s made from durable stainless steel. Probably the most common ones I found online were round, but some friends had already purchased these and told me they can be a bit of a pain since they roll around if you using them on gas grills for instance. Smaller holes let less smoke out, but there can be more of them in the tube and it can hold the wood in more efficiently. Because of its compact size and its light weight, it’s a great toy to bring on your next camping or RV adventure to add some delicious, smoky flavor to everything that you’re cooking.To clean it, you simply need to let it cool down first, empty it from the ash, rinse it with the help of water and brush, and it will be ready for the next cooking session. The slide extension mechanism allows the user to choose any smoke tube size from 11” up to 18” for the exact smoke flavor required. However, they all work in a slightly different way to provide the level of smoke diffusion required to smoke the food efficiently. You can light a smoker tube, using a propane torch or a lighter to ignite the pellets at one end of the tube.

Now as simple as a perforated piece of metal sounds, there are just a couple of factors that make a pellet tube a little bit more functional I feel. Because of this, people began to naturally find other applications for wood pellets, which is how pellet smoker tubes came about. Depending on the size and shape of your tube, different models will require different methods of cleaning. This smoke generator can produce around two hours of smoke to help infuse your food with a high-quality smoke flavor. Simply fill the tube with your favorite wood chips, light them with your propane torch, let the burn develop for 10 mins and enjoy 4 hours of high quality smoking.She is no stranger to all things outdoor cooking, from grilling to smoking on gas, charcoal, and pellet grills.