A gravity fed smoker includes a smoking enclosure and an external stack. The stack is double walled with an inner wall, and an outer wall. A vented cooling space exists between the inner wall and the outer wall. An inner chamber of the external stack includes a fire box with a fire grate and a feed hopper positioned above the fire box. A smoke tunnel with a series of openings for releasing smoke into the smoking enclosure extends along the bottom of the food smoking enclosure and is connected to the external fire box at one end. Fuel, including charcoal, lump coal, or wood pellets, is loaded into the feed hopper. As the fuel burns on the fire grate and turns to ashes, the fuel is fed from the hopper onto the fire grate by gravity. A fan and dampers controls air flow through the fire grate and into the smoke tunnel.

A smoker accessory for charcoal and gas grills for burning wood pellets comprises an elongate tubular body having a plurality of openings formed therethrough for induction of combustion air and venting of smoke. A solid elongate tubular neck connects to the body and terminates in an open mouth. The diameter of the mouth is less than the diameter of the body thereby helping to contain pellets and ash when the smoker is positioned along a horizontal axis during use.

A meat smoker/cooker device is provided and includes a fuel chamber having a fuel chamber structure which includes a fuel chamber sidewall that defines a fuel chamber cavity, wherein the fuel chamber sidewall includes a first mounting hole, a second mounting hole and a sidewall slot communicated with the chamber cavity. Additionally, the meat smoker device also includes a fuel container having a container rim and being located within the chamber cavity proximate the slot bottom and an ignition article having an ignition article handle, an ignition article mounting structure and a heating element, wherein the ignition article handle includes a handle portion movably located within the sidewall slot and wherein the ignition article mounting structure is configured to mountingly engage with the first and second mounting hole, such that the ignition article is configurable between a first and second configuration.

An outdoor cooking station configured to simultaneously and independently cook food with separate cooking modes. The cooking station includes a main body defining separate first and second cooking portions fueled by separate fuel sources for cooking food in the separate modes. The first cooking portion includes gas-fueled first heating elements configured to heat a first cooking surface associated with the first cooking portion of the main body. The second cooking portion of the main body extends to define a chamber, the chamber being accessible with a door or hood pivotably coupled to the main body. The chamber includes an upper region and a lower region separated by an inner panel, the upper region including a second cooking surface suspended within the upper region. The lower region includes a second heating element sized and configured to electrically heat pellet elements to supply heat and smoke to the upper region.

Disclosed is an outdoor cooking appliance with ductwork that directs heat and smoke more evenly in the cook chamber of the appliance. For example, the ductwork can extend from the heat source of the appliance and direct the smoke to openings in rack holders that then dispel the smoke into the cook chamber more evenly. The burn pot assembly can also be segregated from the grease pan to avoid the potential for grease fires.

An indoor smoker includes a smoking chamber fluidly coupled with an exhaust duct comprising a catalytic converter. A smoke regulating assembly selectively directs a flow of smoke through the smoking chamber and/or the exhaust duct. The smoke regulating assembly includes an outer housing defining an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture and a firebox positioned within the outer housing and defining a smoldering chamber. A control cylinder is rotatably mounted within the outer housing and around the firebox, the control cylinder defining a plurality of flow regulating apertures and being rotatable to selectively align the flow regulating apertures with the inlet aperture and the outlet aperture to regulate a flow of fresh air and the flow of smoke.

This invention relates in general to a pellet-fired smoker which includes a housing having a smoke chamber defined within it. A hopper holding pellet fuel supplies pellets through one or more augers to one or more fire pots configured to enhance smoking a food product by increasing the smoke flowing to a food product at various cooking temperatures.

Food for human consumption is smoked by providing smoke, removing one or more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from the smoke and contacting the food with the treated smoke, or smoking the food and then removing the PAHs from the smoked food. PAH removal is selective, to remove the PAHs that contain 4 or more benzene rings, in particular without significantly changing the volatile profile of the smoked food. A selective filter is provided, as is apparatus comprising a smoke generator, a chamber in which to smoke food, and the selective filter, disposed between the smoke generator and the chamber.

A smoker includes a smoke generator that is configured to provide a controllable method of producing smoke without creating a flame. The device includes a housing including a hopper for storing a smoking fuel within the interior of the housing. The hopper feeds the smoking fuel to a fuel conveyor that is partially within the housing and partially exterior of the housing. A motor is connected to the fuel conveyor so that operation of the motor causes the smoking fuel to move along the length of the fuel conveyor. As the smoking fuel moves along the fuel conveyor, it is heated to produce continuous smoke without producing a flame. The smoke generator is capable of controlling the quality and the quantity of the smoke produced by the smoke generator independently of the heat that is used to cook food within a cabinet of the smoker.

Devices and Systems for generating culinary cooking smoke are provided. As one example, a device is provided that includes an elongated housing defining a first plurality of holes and an internal cavity accessible by an opening at an end of the elongated housing. The device further includes (i) a magnetic-coupling mechanism, coupled to the elongated housing, configured to detachably couple the elongated housing to an underside of a cooking grill, and (ii) an end cap, detachably coupled to the end of the elongated housing, that is configured to close the opening of the elongated housing. Furthermore, the internal cavity is configured to house a smoke-generating material that produces smoke when heated, and the first plurality of holes is configured to direct the smoke produced by the smoke-generating material toward the cooking grill.