Smoke Daddy Inc. Big Kahuna Cold Generator r Uses Your Choice of Fuels

For me, the best thing about the kahuna is transforming my BBQ into a smoker.

Finally, I can get great smoke in my Weber Genesis gas grill. The grill is great, but every way I tried before to get decent smoke failed. The Big Kahuna solved that problem. Now I can get an hour or so of smoke from chips and chunks while cooking meats or I can leave the burners all off and cold smoke using just the Big Kahuna. In other words, it makes the smoke independent from the grill burners. You can use either heat or smoke or both.This opens up a whole new set of possibilities. Now I can even slow-cook ribs for hours and get lots of smoke flavor. Previously, to get smoke it required at least one of the burners to be on strongly and that is too much heat for something like ribs. Problem solved!The air pump works well as a boost to getting the smoke started and to control the burn inside the Big Kahuna.You can add more wood while smoking but you may want a pliers to take off the top as the knob on the top can get too hot to handle.Keep the knob that locks the bottom in place tight or the bottom and sparks could fall to the ground. I would not use this device over flammable surfaces without some protection and continual monitoring. Eventually I will fasten a metal drip pan close under the smoker to catch anything that falls and that should make it safer.This installed very easily in the Genesis by drilling a 1 1/8" hole in the aluminum back of the grill between two of the flavor bars near the center. It is at a very slight angle, but that is no problem.

The quality of the product is incredible and easy to install on my pellet grill.Once started you get a ton of smoke which is great for a pellet grill since they aren't producing a ton usually. So now I can do cold smoking or add more smoke to my hot smoking!

I did not open the box. I read a lot of reviews and did not like some of them. I need a smoker that would smoke for about 4 hours and a lot more smoke.

I have a Big Kahuna and it works great. I like less smoke and therefore prefer to smoke for a longer time. I think the real thick smoke can generate too much tar and creosote. I don't mind adding more chips every hour or so.The unit will have to be cleaned occasionally as some smoke tars condense on the walls and on the ventilation spring. And being the tars are hydrocarbons, they don't dissolve in water. I found the very best way to clean the unit it to use a liquid drain cleaner which is lye or sodium hydroxide. I use a cheap plastic bottle brush and a tall glass jar filled with drain cleaner. Dip in the bottle brush and swish it around the unit and the tars dissolve instantly. You can do this in your kitchen sink and the liquids that are washed off will serve to help keep the drains clear.CLEANING UPDATE:. I used it twice in the last few days - once for cold-smoked salmon and once for bacon. There unit ran for about 12 hours without cleaning . There was quite a bit of wood tar in the body, on the ventilation spring and on the top cap. The approach above was dissolving the tar, but wasn't too fast as the build-up was thick. But the drain cleaner does a good job in cutting thru the tar. So I decided to let the cleaner do the work by letting the Smoke Daddy soak in it. I took off all the parts including the venturi hooked up to the air pump, and soaked it lying sideways in an inexpensive clear plastic shoe box. As a chemical engineer, there is a slight chemical reaction between the aluminum body and the lye, but it will not harm the very thick walls of the smoke daddy. They will be a slight surface color change. After it sits in the drain cleaner a few hours, the tars are mostly dissolved and what's left can be easily removed with the stainless steel brush that comes with the unit.As there's still cleaning power in the used drain cleaner, I'll pour what's left into our sink drains to keep them clear.See photo.