Realcook 8" Cold Smoke Generator, Hot or Cold Smoking on Any BBQ Grill and Smoker, Perfect for Smoked Salmon, Cheese, Pork and More, Smoke Time up to 4-7 Hours review and price compare 2025

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Brand	Realcook
Power Source	Corded Electric, Charcoal
Item Weight	0.44 Pounds
Item Dimensions LxWxH	8.07 x 7.48 x 1.77 inches
Fuel Type	Electric, Charcoal

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This smoker accessories is perfect for cold and hot smoking. You can put it into any gas grill, pellet grill, electric grill, charcoal grill or any smokers.
Add the Wood Sawdust you like (apple, pecan, hickory, mesquite, oak, cherry or different species of fruit trees). This Cold Smoke Generator provides unique smoky flavor to your smoked meat, cheese, pork, fish, turkey, ribs and more. It will give you the best smoking result.
If you are a smoked lovers, you must know that the perfecet way of smoking is low and slow. The Round Shape Design can let you put more wood sawdust and space saving. Up to 7 hours smoking time is longer than the other pellet smoker tube. Smoke time will vary depending on what sawdust you are using.
You can easy to transport the cold smoke generator with 2 handles. It makes the smoking process easy and accessible to anyone. We know that enough smoke is the important part during the barbecue time, if you get a pellet smoker grill that does not produce enough smoke? Our smoke generator is your first choice!
This cold smoke generator is made of steel which is safe and durable. It's straight forward to set up and use.

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Size:8.07x7.48x1.77Inch

Metal Type: Steel
Product size: 20.5x19x4.5CM(8.07x7.48x1.77Inch)
Package size: 22x19x5.5 CM (8.66x7.48x2.17Inch)
G.W.of a piece: 0.3KG

Package Include: Cold Smoke Generator x 1
Note: You can buy the wood dust in your local store

What should you do if the wood dust keeps going out?
1. Light the wood dust with a small kitchen blowtorch. You need to burn it about 15 minutes (relighting as necessary during those time) to keep a flame going and gently blow it out. Less than 15 minutes it was not enough flame to keep going
2. If the wood dust is damp, a minute or so in the microwave can extract the moisture.
3. During cold smoking, make sure to check the food every hour by lifting the lid. This allows fresh oxygen to enter which will stimulate the smoking process.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any problems!

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Questions about Realcook 8" Cold Smoke Generator, Hot or Cold Smoking on Any BBQ Grill and Smoker, Perfect for Smoked Salmon, Cheese, Pork and More, Smoke Time up to 4-7 Hours

How much sawdust does it take to fill it? About how many cooks would a twenty pound bag last?

Answer: This holds about 1/4 lb of sawdust, so I would expect 18 hours of cold smoke

whats the best wood to use for salmon?

Answer: Hickory, Hickory, Hickory

Answer: applewood

Answer: Alder

Do you pack the sawdust in or keep it loose?

Answer: You do not need to pack it, I pour it higher than the edges then using a ruler or something with a straight edge, screed it flat

Answer: Did not pack it, just shake and pat down!

Answer: somewhat loose

What kind of blow torch should I get for this ? Butane or propane ? Does it change the flavor ?

Answer: The kind of torch won’t affect the flavor. You just need a torch that will light the wood dust. Once they are lit, it’s just burning wood dust and the torch is turned off.

Answer: No problem, you can use both torch. Never changes the flavor. Also you can use the short candle. Enjoy!!

Answer: I think either one should work. You just have to make sure that the embers keep going. I doubt that it would change the flavor. I used a propane torch and didn't taste anything.

Answer: Neither. Use a tea lite candle. Small candle that fits on that little platform.

Where is this made?

Answer: I’m not completely sure, but sadly I’m assuming China...

Answer: China

Is this for smoker grii

Answer: Sure. You can use it on any smoker grill, charcoal grill, electric grill. Please open the grill air vent to provide enough air during the smoking time. This 8" cold smoke generator can burn it up to 4-7 hours. Thank you!

Answer: This is for cold smoking meats, fish and cheese, it’s used at temperatures below 75°

Does it really take 15 minutes with a blow torch to start this thing? It seems like in 15 minutes you would burn all of the wood dust.

Answer: In my experience, once you get it burning with a torch (about 15-30 seconds) you can let it go naturally - however, blow out any flame that might exist after 15 minutes...the idea is to get a good portion of the material smoldering so there's enough heat to continue around the whole path.

Answer: I tried to start the burn on this unit . it never kept burning , it just kept going out. I returned the product and ordered a slow electric cold smoker.

Answer: With a torch like 5 seconds! Just need to start the outside end.

Answer: I don't know about fifteen minutes but it does take several minutes to get a good steady burn going.

Where can I get Alder sawdust? I only see chips

Answer: I made my own and used cherry! Order online?

where to find bech wood dust for smoker?

Answer: Why limit yourself to beech wood? These do work with wood chips or pellets...

Answer: i don''t know whereto look for it. maybe a woodwoorkin shop near you

Will this work with the “saw dust” from a chain saw?

Answer: The problem is that a standard used chainsaw discharges bar oil with the saw dust, so you'd be smoking your food with, essentially, motor oil and wood. If you purged it maybe. In. But best to buy the cheapest chainsaw you can get, and use vegetable oil as the bar oil...

Answer: It works best with sawdust.

Answer: Don't use just any sawdust. Use sawdust intended for smoking food

Does this require wood dust to keep burning, or will it work with pellets as well?

Answer: It works best with dust

Answer: no it does not.make sure it is completely dry otherwise it wont burn

Answer: I personally use dust

Does the saw dust in the parallel channel catch fire as well or will this actually just burn in one lane or channel only ?

Answer: It burns one lane for the most part. there is a little bit of lane jumping happening. Starting the fire with a propane torch was easy. than k

Answer: After trying several methods to utilize the smoke generator I have found that if you start with a one layer bed of smashed briquettes, light them with a burnzamatic torch. Let the briquettes get good and glowing. Place the filled (pressed down with chips) smoke generator on top. It smokes very well.

Answer: It does burn as one channel. You'll need a tea candle under it to start.

Answer: Don't waste your money. This thing is a piece of junk .

To use, just put it in the bottom of a Weber, instead of charcoal, light candle, and let it go for 18-24 hrs? What is temp in the grill?

Answer: This product can adds awesome smoke flavor to everything, like meats, fishes, cheese and so on. It is perfect for cold smoking and hot smoking. But the product does not the heat source. For hot smoking, you still need the charcoal.

Answer: It’s a cold smoke generator,, what heat? This isn’t for BBQ.

Product reviews of Realcook 8" Cold Smoke Generator, Hot or Cold Smoking on Any BBQ Grill and Smoker, Perfect for Smoked Salmon, Cheese, Pork and More, Smoke Time up to 4-7 Hours

Chris Zimmer : Worthless. Won't stay lit

This thing is worthless. Read the reviews. I wish I had done so before I bought it. I didn't use it the first time for 6 months so too late to return. I tried the wood shavings and pellets . Neither will stay lit. Just get a smoker tube and use pellets for great results.

Amazon Customer : Ineffective.

Difficult to light and keep burning.

Alan G. : doesn't stay lit

Just got this, and tried it twice. One time I tried to get it started with the tea candle. The second time I used a blowtorch. Both times, it wouldn't stay lit. I don't know if perhaps I packed it wrong? Or maybe it needs some super special type of sawdust -- I used a bucket of smoking sawdust from Amazon.

Jesse Martin : Absolute Garbage, buy ANYTHING else

This product is pure trash. I have literally never used it successfully. The whole tea light candle thing is just an abortion, lighting it with a blow torch like most of the internet recommends is no better. It never stays lit, I've tried every thing I've read on the internet about how to make this thing function - soaking the pellets, baking the pellets in the oven, using the candle, using the blow torch, letting it "burn" for a half hour before trying to use it.

Garbage, garbage, garbage. This product has so consistently not worked that I'm honestly questioning if any positive review about it is even real.

Updating January 12th 2021, nothing in this review has changed.

AMZ Contributor : Wonderful product & great value. Look no further!

Wonderful product & great value. Look no further!

lynne g. : Worked like a charm!

It was exactly what I expected.
No assembly required and worked perfectly.

Guenter S. : Smoked reliably for 12 hrs

I had a different smoke generator before, but it got too hot in my BBQ grill. This one did a perfect job for cold smoking in a typical gas grill.

KEN MATSUO : best for cold smoking

best cold smoke generator, very simple and easy to use.

SARGIS AGAZARYAN : very good

a +

PC : Um...No

The concept is great. The reality blows and getting a response to return the item...nada.
Use larger chunks of whatever wood, and rest them in a pan of the shaved wood they proport you use.
That said, too much smoke can steer folks away.
This is a cold smoke use tool only. Act accordingly.

Thomas : Pricey

Works fine for the first 30 minutes or so but then the whole swirl begins to catch fire and smoke !

Amazon Customer : Trying to get it to work

So far it is hard to get started. Using a candle does not work. Left it burning for 30 minutes bit nothing. I will try it with a torch. If that doesn't work I will be returning it.

MandaPanda : Great smoker for fish!

My husband and I are very happy with this smoker! Now we can make amazing smoked fish right from home. Only advice I have for this is actual saw dust not the chips.... the chips are too big and never stay lite. We buy saw dust on etsy! Found out the hard way! Enjoy!

Amazon Customer : Five Stars

Used it a few times works really well, hope it lasts.

Jordan Camacho : Trouble staying lit

Wouldn't stay lit. Great idea, but kept going out.

Gazficko : Anyone who gave it a bad rating don't know what they are doing

When used correctly it worked perfectly. I used Traeger pellets out of the bag. The key is to not overfill the channels to allow the walls to do what they are supposed to.

j : Know how to use before rating/buying

I read numerous reviews so i knew how to use it out of the box. Used butane to start. Using in an upright electric smoker. Pork shoulder. I followed instructions putting pellets into water and drying in oven at 175 for a few hours. I opened the door to let the moisture out and stirred up the saw dust to speed up the process. Good product. Cant wait to continue use!

Alan G. : doesn't stay lit

Rhonda H. : Short term life span product

While it worked, I did not know that after 6 uses the metal mesh on the bottom of the smoker would burn out and not be able to hold the wood chips. Very disappointed.

AMZ Contributor : Wonderful product & great value. Look no further!

Wonderful product & great value. Look no further!

Jordan Camacho : Trouble staying lit

Wouldn't stay lit. Great idea, but kept going out.

Jordan Camacho : Trouble staying lit

Wouldn't stay lit. Great idea, but kept going out.

Bob Arizona : Doesn't work as described! Doesn't work period!

After the product arrived I checked you tube for information on this product and guess what! Doesn't work. Even the reviewer couldn't keep it let. Burned about 25% of the way for him. Then I noticed there were half as many 1 star reviews as 5 star, so 11 out of 3 thought is was nonfunctional. I had trouble keeping it going for 20 minutes. Tried a fire starter, tea light and kitchen torch. The humidity here is around 15% so the wood dust is not damp. I have to completely unload my smoker to relight this POS. Hellooo Amazon, goodbye Real (no) cook. Hope the other two guys are happy with theirs!

Paul NY Smoker King : Works well with the correct Sawdust

will only work with sawdust that is dust like. do not use fine chips, It needs to have a dust-like consistency. I found that if you buy wood pellets and wet them they will fall apart and after they dry, they will burn in the unit for more than 12 hours.

Amazon Customer : Very long smoking time with good sawdust

I bought this 13" smoker, because I already own several smaller ones. Those need more attention, because they finished too soon for my taste.
I tested it first time in a couple days ago, and it is STILL SMOKING! I have excellent dry beech wood sawdust with some juniper berry mixed with it. Looks like this fine dust will reach the 48 hours mark I had in my whislist (only 2 hours left).
I prefer beech wood, because it is not easy to find good quality cherry or hickory in this fine grade.
I recommend it for some long term cold smoking.

GenGen : Didn’t even work

The tea light that supposedly suppose to light up the wood did nothing. I set the generator in the smoker at 10 pm, when to bed, the next morning, I check to see if it lighted, the wood didn’t even burn. I waited a whole night thinking this generator will work and the wood will burn throughout the night.

John D. Pilla : Not sure why, didn't work for us

Does not work very well at all. Saw Dust purchased for it keeps going out.

bobTheObserver : Good Smoker

Using with sawdust I made from Pit Boss pellets. Today is my first use. It lights and burns just fine, but it also started burning the sawdust in the adjacent coil. If anyone has a tip to prevent it, I'd love to know what you do. I'm using this 8" model inside my old, unplugged Little Chief smoker to do a cold smoke. My goal is a thin line of blue smoke, and I feel I'm close. I adjust the door at the bottom and the lid on top to modify the airflow. Now I just need to figure out how to keep the burn from jumping because it gives too much smoke and gets too hot for a cold smoke.

To make the sawdust I use 1 Cup of the Pit Boss pellets, add 6 Tbl of water, stir and let it sit for a few minutes. Then stir a few times. The pellets turn to sawdust very easily. Then I spread the moist sawdust on 1 or 2 cookie sheets and put into a warm oven (170F) for an hour. Stir it a couple of time during that hour. Any excess is stored in a sealed mason jar and then heated in the microwave a minute or two to make sure it is bone dry before using.

Baker : Would not buy again

Was a lot smaller than the picture and what they advertised.

Patrick McMahon : Works good with dry fine sawdust

I had been thinking about cold smoking some salmon when I saw this item and thought it was a great idea. I ordered one immediately and it arrived quickly. After curing my salmon I was looking forward to smoking it all day and having some great salmon to eat tonight. Alas that did not happen. I filled the smoker early this morning and got it started. I put on the salmon and checked about a half hour later. The smoke was out. And so it went the rest of the day. I would light it and soon it would go out. I gave up. Then this evening I had an idea that the problem wasn't with the smoker but with the wood. I got some dry oak sawdust from my wood shop and loaded up the smoker and lit it up. That was at 5:30 this evening. Now at 10:30 it is still smoking. I am assuming that the sawdust I ordered wasn't dry enough, although it seemed quite dry. The other thing is that the oak sawdust I used was much finer than what I ordered. I don't know if that is the difference, but I am going to find out. So, if you have problems with it going out it is probably due to the sawdust. Tomorrow I am going to dry the hickory sawdust I bought and see if it will smolder as well as the oak from my shop. (Next day.) The very fine dust smoldered, producing a nice plume of smoke for well over 6 hours until it was all consumed.
I tried several times to get the hickory sawdust to smolder but without success. I took several batches of the sawdust and dried it to extreme but no smoldering. The best answer is to use a real fine wood dust, like a flour consistency. I don't know where you can buy that but I will be using some from my wood shop.

Will Lankford : Stayed lit

Worked great

Amazon Customer : Ineffective.

Difficult to light and keep burning.

lunchbox : meh

i bought this and now regret doing so, pain in the butt to keep lit and puts off too much heat when i can get it to say lit. i have since bought a cold smoker box for my smoker and tossed this guy in the trash. also a huge sooty mess to handle an clean.

Amazon Customer : No good

Didn't work with anything I tried

Javier (. : Muy sencillo de usar

Me funcionó perfecto, lo encendí en una estufa de gas

Jason : Cold smoking tool

This takes quite a bit to start. Not only do I use a tea light candle, I also use a tourch to get it going. Once it is finally smoking on its own it will burn all the way through.

Rhonda H. : Short term life span product

While it worked, I did not know that after 6 uses the metal mesh on the bottom of the smoker would burn out and not be able to hold the wood chips. Very disappointed.

KO : Damage product

Second time in row product is damaged upon arrival.

PACoug : Works But There’s A Learning Curve

There are procedures online for soaking smoker pellets, mashing them up, baking the water out and using them for devices like this. They aren’t just blowing smoke. The crushed pellets allow enough air circulation for the snake to stay lit. Once you’ve been through the hell of unsuccessful cooks and stuck with it as you develop your technique, you will swear by this device. It produces more and better smoke than anything else I’ve seen, and leaves plenty of room for your food.

I personally recommend it but you’ll have to be your own judge. It’s a pain to learn.

Hilary : Worked great

Worked great
Ps supper cool Hak If you can’t find hickory sawdust Buy an $8.00 25 pound bag from Walmart of pellets soak them in water and then let them dry out perfect sawdust an eighth of the normal price

Jeremy Hebert : Very difficult to keep lit.

It seems like such a simple and reasonable concept, however that which looks good on paper doesn't always work out so well in practice.

I really wanted this to work. Lighting the sawdust was not too difficult, but keeping it lit was seemingly impossible. It would give off nice smoke for two or three minutes and then die completely. I'd very gently blow on the embers and it would glow spectacularly and begin smoking like mad for a couple of minutes, then die. It was a horrid cycle that was getting me nowhere.

After some research, including from some who have provided reviews here, I decided to bake my sawdust for several hours in the oven in order to ensure that it was as dry as it could be. It made absolutely no difference. Smoke a little, die, re-light, repeat.

If I could come up with some way to apply very gentle direct air to the embers, even puffs every few seconds, it might actually work. I'll let you know if I come up with anything.

bobTheObserver : Good Smoker

Amazon Customer : Five Stars

Used it a few times works really well, hope it lasts.

Jesse Martin : Absolute Garbage, buy ANYTHING else

lynne g. : Worked like a charm!

It was exactly what I expected.
No assembly required and worked perfectly.

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