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Cookshack Smokette SM008 Black Electric Smoker

Cookshack Smokette SM008 Black Electric Smoker

Cookshack Inc.

The Bottom Line

Cookshack has over 40 years experience making smokers for restaurants, barbecue competitions and backyard cooks. This is their most popular unit, the small Smokette that is perfect for the barbecue lover who doesn't have time to tend to the fire. Easy to use, this electric smoke oven will give you authentic smoked meats without a lot of work. Large enough to feed a good sized gathering, this is the perfect smoker for the person who wants to come home from work to a nice rack of smoked ribs.

Pros

  • Solid construction with 304 stainless where it counts
  • Efficient grease management system
  • Easy to clean
  • Easy to use

Cons

  • Traditionalists might make fun of you

Description

  • 588 square inches of total cooking space
  • 304 stainless steel top and interior. Other parts heavy duty black powder coated steel
  • 500 watt electric heating element
  • Easy access smoker box that typically uses large chuck wood blocks
  • Mounted on 3-inch casters make it relatively easy to move
  • Large capacity, removable, external drip pan
  • Cold smoking available with optional cold smoking baffle

Guide Review - Cookshack Smokette SM008

This model has been discontinued. It is replaced by the Cookshack Smokette Elite SM020.

Cookshack makes smokers for some of your favorite restaurants and this unit does what those larger, commercial units do, produces great barbecue without splitting logs or tending fire all day. Certainly many purists will tell you that it isn't real barbecue if it didn't come off a real fire, but no one will know the difference with this little smoker, after all the convenience of this unit is far greater than with most other kinds of smokers.

The Smokette is Cookshack's most popular smoker. While relatively small it is still large enough for most backyard cookouts and gives you the versatility to smoke almost anything. With the addition of the optional cold smoke baffle you can even cold smoke in this unit, giving you the ability to smoke sausage, jerky, cheese or fish.

The Smokette has a stainless steel interior and most parts are machine washable so you can easily keep this unit clean. Grease drains from the unit into an easily removable grease tray.

If you want great barbecue, but don't want to bother with wood or charcoal then this really is the perfect unit for you. While there are certainly less expensive units on the market, this one is built to last and Cookshack has one of the best reputations in the industry for service and support.

There are several companies making (or importing) similar smokers, but they lack the quality construction and functionality of this Cookshack smoker.

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