Bella's Cold Smoke Generator

I saw this on 2 guys & ... It is very easy to light and pumps out the smoke as heavy or light as you like, just dial up or down the air flow from the included pump. I have used this for cold smoking (salmon, bacon) and hot smoking (linguica, bacon, and hot links) and am completely satisfied with both. Over the past 2 decades I have had a homemade offset smoker, a store bought offset smoker an electric smoker and am currently using a propane smoker. I have a couple of those small metal corrugated pellet - amazing - cold smoke generators and they work very well but can be tiresome and time-consuming to light and occasionally they go out though that might be a factor of the pellets not being dry enough. Anyway I have used this Bella's Cold Smoke Generator 5 times and have nothing but good to say about it so far. Easy to install if you have some basic tools and a minimum of skill with them. Easy to clean. I was a bit hesitant to pull the trigger on the purchase as it runs a few times the cost of those "amazing" cold smokers but for me it was - thus far - well worth it.

I cold-smoke a lot of salmon as well as beef, chicken, and turkey in my Char-Broil Vertical Smoker. During the colder months, I can use a smoker tube. Nevertheless, the arrangement is not good as the burning pellets add much heat to the chamber. Bella's Cold Smoke Generator works as advertised. It took me about 10 minutes to drill a 3/4" hole in the side of my smoker and three holes for the mounting screws. It is easy to add wood pellets to the smoker and ignite. The air pump pushes the smoke into my smoker and affords much control over the airflow. Once lit, the smoker requires little attention.

I live in Wisconsin and this works great on cheese, veggies, fish, and adding more smoke flavors to your meats. You need to have. Some mechanical aptitude for instillation. There is definitely a learning curve for using your cold smoker, take your time and it is well worth it.

The media could not be loaded. This was just what I needed to enable me to cold smoke cheese, salmon and all my sausages and bacon without rendering fat or cooking it. Really helped me control the amount of smoke. Will literally smoke while keeping smoker temp at or near outside ambient temps.

This smoke generator is the best thing since sliced bread. Didn't figure out how to make it burn for eight hours straight but if you fill it 3/4 full it will run for 4 hours at least generating an unbelievable amount of high quality smoke. Made jerky and sausage, very impressed. If I fill it all the way up the humidity from the burn will "inflate" the wood pellets which it turn will stop the pellets from the very top to fall. Basically no matter how much you fill it it will burn 4-6 hours max, unless you force the stuck pellets down after 4 hours. I need to experiment a bit longer, could be doing something wrong.

If you were looking to do ambient temperature smoking like a cold smoke for fish or smoking cheese or sausage this is the thing you need. I attached it to the side of a smoke vault from camp chef Which gave me a lot of square inches of cooking to do large cooks. If you follow the directions or the videos online and fill out about 3/4 of the way followed by about 5 to 10 minutes on high it will give you the eight hours of smoke. My only recommendation is to make sure that you put the smoker towards the back of your box because mine is towards the front and a lot of smoke builds and goes out the door.

I like the quantity of smoke it produces but it’s a warm almost hot smoke! You have to place ice inside the smoker to reduce the temperature and avoid melting the fat of your sausage or bacon if you intend cold smoking and dry aging. Ruined my batch of sausage and bacon as I did not babysit to check the temperature for 3 hours. It could work on a big smoking house but not attached to whatever smoker you have. I spent $1K on good smoker and made a hole to adapt it for nothing ! The generator attached to a smoker will definitely add heat inside.

Works perfectly for about 10 hours of smoke. Easy for install, set up, & use.