A-MAZE-N AMNTS12-APP Oval Pellet Tube Smoker Prefilled with 100% Wood Apple BBQ Pellets, 12 Inch review and price compare 2025

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Product overview

Brand	A-MAZE-N
Power Source	Wood pellet
Item Weight	1.2 Pounds
Item Dimensions LxWxH	12 x 2 x 2 inches
Fuel Type	Electric

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It produces smoke for up to 4 hours during cold smoking
Designed to supplement smoke in an electric smoker, but can be used in just about any smoker or grill
Includes 1 free lb. of 100% apple BBQ pellets
It contains no fillers and no additives, produces very little ash

From the manufacturer

One of the Best Barbecue of Your Life

Made of stainless steel, A-MAZE-N’s pellet smoker will burn for up to 12 hours. Using BBQ wood pellets or sawdust, this combo kit gets you off to the right start with the A-MAZE-N BBQ pellets. With no added fillers, binders, or oils A-MAZE-N’s flavor wood BBQ pellets will add a rich flavor to your barbecued meats, poultry, and cheeses.

Use for a hot or cold smoke
Burns up to 12 hours

Perfect for Camping

Designed to supplement smoke in an electric smoker, but can be used in just about any smoker or grill. The compact size makes the A-MAZE-N pellet smoker easily transportable from your grill at home to the campsite.


	Smokey	Sweet	Fruity	Spicy	Natural
Apple	-	✓	✓	-	-
Hickory	✓	-	-	-	✓
Pitmasters Choice	✓	✓	✓	-	✓


	Beef	Pork	Fish	Game	Poultry	Cheese
Apple	-	✓	-	-	✓	✓
Hickory	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	-
Pitmasters Choice	✓	✓	-	-	✓	✓

product description

These are light weight, durable and portable smoke generators that produce great quality smoke for cold and hot smoking. They are versatile enough to be used in just about any smoker or a grill. They are designed to burn pellets and supplement smoke at higher temps, in Pellet Grills/Smokers. This is where most pellet grills/smokers do not produce much smoke. The AMNTS adds additional smoke at cooking temps, regardless if your pellet grill/smoker is burning pellets or not. The Tube Smokers perform very well in pellet grills, gas grills and gas smokers. Their unique design takes up very little space on your grates.

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Questions about A-MAZE-N AMNTS12-APP Oval Pellet Tube Smoker Prefilled with 100% Wood Apple BBQ Pellets, 12 Inch

how does it burn the pellets

Answer: The smoker is lit at the end with a torch and with continue to burn for up to four hours with heat from coals or burners.

Answer: You fill up the tube with pellets and light one end of the tube. The pellets will burn thus producing smoke. I suggest using a propane or butane torch to light the pellets.

Answer: Just to underscore a very important aspect of the answers above... save yourself frustration and use a PROPANE TORCH. I tried using a long stemmed butane lighter but even when I spent several minutes holding the flame to the pellets and letting it burn for 10 minutes, it snuffed out once inside the smoker. With a torch it takes 30 seconds of that blast furnace heat and it's going strong.

Answer: You torch the pellets at the end of the tube. I use an Iwatani butane torch. Works great! http://www.amazon.com/Iwatani-Torch-Burner-Professional-Cb-tc-pro/dp/B00BBJC1CY

Answer: You put a torch to it. Get a nice bed of coals started at one end. Then blow out any flame and set it in the smoker. Make sure that's good air flow. (I just removed my chip tray and leave the vent wide open.) It will smoke for 6-7 hours nonstop. Like, so smoky you can't see in there any longer!! I love this thing and I never, ever use my chip tray any more.

can I use wood chips instead of pellets?

Answer: I have only used pellets. I do not know how wood chips would burn in the tube

Answer: I’ve never tried wood chips, but my guess is that they would burn faster and make less smoke. It wouldn’t hurt anything to try it, but might not do much to enhance smoke flavor.

Answer: I doubt you could pack them in tight enough to work correctly. Pellets work awesome and you have a choice of “flavors”, so there is no real advantage to trying chips.

Answer: Yes, I have used wood chips. Make sure you use small chips and shake them down as packed as you can so there are no air gaps between chips. Make double sure they are ignited very well before you blow out the flame. Extra monitoring that they are still smoldering doesn't hurt in case you need a re-light!

Answer: Yes you can, it works great.

Doesnt the Traeger provide smoke from the pellets? Not sure why this is needed?

Answer: Well, I don't have a Traeger, I have a Masterbuilt electric smoker. Yes, it does have a chip tray, but it's really small and the chips only smoke for about 20 minutes, then it's time for a refill (compartment is tiny). After two fills the ashes need dumped. Basically you have to babysit the smoker. But if you use the pellet tube, you can set it on a lower rack, remove the chip tray entirely (it helps air circulation), then sit back and do something else while you get 6-7 hours of continuous, perfect smoke.

Answer: In most pellet smokers (including a Traeger) the pellets in the burn pot will smoke great a lower temperatures. But when you crank the temperature up, there is significantly less smoke produced as the combustion is much more efficient. Consequently, many people augment the smoke with something like this.

Answer: I have a Treager pellet smoker/grill. Pellet smoker or any other type of smoker uses heat to burn the pellets or smoking chips. With my Treager on the smoke setting, the internal temp gets to 200° F. That is to hot to cold smoke (cheese, salmon, jerky, etc). So I use it for cold smoking and for additional smoked flavor.

Answer: yes it does but not nearly as much as I would like... as with a charcoal smoker with wood chips added. I have used the a maze n tube two times now and really like the added smoke....Attracts the neighbors attention much more too..lol not sure that is a plus or a minus!

Answer: I use this when cooking on my gas grill to provide a slight smoke flavor.

Product reviews of A-MAZE-N AMNTS12-APP Oval Pellet Tube Smoker Prefilled with 100% Wood Apple BBQ Pellets, 12 Inch

R. R. Parke : I recommend this product for cold smoking

Worked as advertised. Light the pellets with a torch, let them burn for 10 minutes and blow them out. This tube smoker with apple pellets burned for three hours before I put them out with about 1/4 of the pellets left. Used in a Weber kettle grill. Outside temp was about 38 degrees F. Well built product. I recommend this product for cold smoking.

mtnbkr : Works well

Works as expected...provides plenty of smoke

DJC : Doesn't produce as much smoke as I'd like so I moved it to my grill which has ...

Ordered this as I can't cold smoke in my smoker. Arrived today. Doesn't produce as much smoke as I'd like so I moved it to my grill which has cubic ft than my smoker. Smoking a rib eye to toss on the grill tonight and some hard boiled eggs for lunch. This works so much better than any of the smoke boxes I've tried. May order another simply to allow for more smoke. Lit easily with my kitchen torch but today ordered some alcohol gel.

Like that their website offers pellets in bags less than 20 pounds but unfortunately I had already ordered a 20# bag from another supplier on Amazon.

Deborah wilson : Four Stars

Liked it

Marvin Johnson Jr : Love it, worked perfect and the Apple pellets are ...

Used it the day it arrived to smoke a batch of cheese! Love it, worked perfect and the Apple pellets are the best adding a real tasty smoke flavor.

M. Mellon : Works great!

Bought one of these since my master built smoker wasn't smoking very well. It works great! I stuffed it half full of tin foil and got about 3 hours worth of smoke. Also found 40 pounds of pellets on Amazon. I'm good for a while!

LostOutside : Everybody enjoyed the smoke flavored cheese

Used this with several flavors of wood pellets to smoke several varieties of cheese. Shared my "experiment" with friends at work. Everybody enjoyed the smoke flavored cheese. This little dude is amazing. Simple to use. Imparts a wonderful smoke flavor to food.

John Mitchell : so the tube should be pretty rust resistant

The pellet tube is very well made. The metal tube and endcaps are made of durably thick stainless steel. A strong magnet has very little attraction to the stainless, so that means that it is somewhat low carbon content, so the tube should be pretty rust resistant. High carbon stainless is stronger, but it will rust. How strong does this thing have to be anyway? The weld down the side of the tube was ground down smooth, a nice touch. The endcaps are tack welded on. Very nice job.

I ordered the pellet tube with apple pellets. I was expecting at least a pound of pellets, but the tube was packed full., that's all. The amount of pellets in the tube was 13.3 ounces. That being said, I am happy anyway. The empty tube weighs in at 6.83 ounces. I got the 12" tube.

The box has a 20 page booklet with instructions, as well as recipes.

Trevor J. Smart : Good if you plan to run a full tube every time

I want to give this 5 stars but can't. After several uses, this thing does work like a champ once it's heated up and running. However, it is a royal pain in the butt to get the thing burning, and stay burning on anything other than a full tube of pellets (several hours worth of burn time). I take a torch to it and once cherried up and flaming, let it burn for several minutes (10 minutes per directions) but find even then it will randomly stop burning on me (no, pellets aren't wet). I also wish there was a way to keep the pellets inside the tube while still allowing it to burn as it should. A swinging door or cap would be nice as I find pellets falling out and is also part of the problem with getting it to burn good out the gate. I will add that I rarely have it completely full as I don't need that long of a burn (have gone nearly 5hrs on a full tube before). The few times I've completely filled it, it has run as it should. Anything other than a full tube is problematic though, for me at least.

MowerGuy : Works great. Really adds that smoked flavor to what ever ...

Works great. Really adds that smoked flavor to what ever I'm grilling. I've been thinking about investing in a pellet smoker grill, and thought this would be a good place to start before making a large investment.

K M. : Three Stars

hard to keep pellets lit. they go out on me all the time.

ajgz : Five Stars

great for small grills and is easy to use

mtnbkr : Works well

Works as expected...provides plenty of smoke

Leonore Proctor : The best tasting *&%$ Tri-tip I ever ate

Added this to our smoker and it produced the most flavorful smoky-tasting tri-tip. Hubby is not enchanted with the difficulty of lighting it, but the end result is worth hearing him complain!

Parese-enterprise : Looks great. It came filled with pellets! Can’t wait to use it.

Can’t wait to use this . It came filled with pellets.

todd m. horner : Five Stars

smoked some ham and bacon works great

Leonore Proctor : The best tasting *&%$ Tri-tip I ever ate

Added this to our smoker and it produced the most flavorful smoky-tasting tri-tip. Hubby is not enchanted with the difficulty of lighting it, but the end result is worth hearing him complain!

Rick C. : Five Stars

Best smoker device I have found. Turned my friend onto it as well.

Mark Mingl : Five Stars

Works perfectly.

rodney dittberner : Five Stars

Just what I have been looking for and it works as advertised.

Trevor J. Smart : Good if you plan to run a full tube every time

Vintage Vet : A Great Gift Idea for the Barbecue Chef

Given as a gift, along with a variety pack of smoker pellets, this is a great way to add flavor and variety to smoked meats.

Lindas Allan : Love it..

I did my first smoking of chicken and it came out great !!!

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