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The Smokai 1 Litre Classic Smoke Generator is the world's original, most trusted cold smoke generator for applying a fresh, cool, controllable, wood fired smoke to your food.
Mount to your Hooded BBQ/Grill, kamado, kettle, smoker, smokehouse, barrel or any other smoking chamber/conversion.
Ideal for cold smoking, or hot smoking with a seperate heat source, like the burners in your BBQ/Grill, or an element in your smoke house.
Dial in your preferred smoke volume from light to heavy
1 Litre Capacity - for up to 12 hours* smoking time (refer "Get Smoking" below)
Built tough from certified 304L hygienic stainless steel
Use woodchip (2-10mm) or 100% hardwood pellets
Choose from the Smokai mains powered option, or cordless for up to 40hrs with the USB rechargeable battery option (also available as an optional add-on)
If you're mounting your Smokai 1 Litre Classic to a BBQ/Grill, you may need an adaptor:
Designed and manufactured in New Zealand since 2011. We place utmost importance on attention to detail and quality control to provide a high quality product. Air pump made in China.
304 Heavy Duty Stainless Steel
There is stainless and there is stainless. Smokai uses the very best, locally sourced, certified, hygienic 304L stainless steel. It's heavy duty and built to last.
Smokai-Modular-System™
Invented by our founders in 2011, the modular design of our Smoke Generators makes mounting, assembly, disassembly, ash disposal and cleaning super quick and easy. The precision engineered, heavy duty components lock together in seconds.
Control Your Smoke™
The variable speed air pump can be adjusted to control the volume smoke, from a light to heavy smoke producing the very best results.
1 Litre Hopper
The gravity fed hopper holds 1 Litre of woodchip or 100% hardwood BBQ pellets. Using pellets on a low pump speed, smoke for up to 12 hours*.
Power Options
Mains powered or the cordless, rechargeable battery powered pump for off-grid smoking.
Silicone Air Tube
High-temperature, food-safe silicone. The air tube connects the air pump to the Smoke Generator.
Hardwood Lid
We chose to include a hardwood lid, not steel, so that it seats well on the hopper and can safely be removed by hand during the smoke to check the level of smoking wood or refill.
Flat Base
The flat base provides an alternative option to fixing the unit using the built-in mounting bracket. If your setup allows, you can simply rest the unit on a shelf or the ground and line up the smoke outlet to the hole entering your smoking chamber.
Get Smoking
Designed to smoke for up to 12 hours*, the Smokai Classic makes cold smoking a breeze and can supply a controllable volume of quality, fresh wood fired smoke when hot** smoking.
The variable speed air pump gives you control of the smoke volume ensuring you don’t over smoke your food which is often the case with other smoking systems.
Fresh wood is gravity fed to the burn with ash settling on the base, ready to quickly empty after your smoke.Woodchip must be between 2-10mm in size, free of sawdust and dried. Hardwood pellets must be 100% hardwood BBQ pellets. Do not use any BBQ pellets that use oils, additives and/or binders in the manufacturing of their wood pellets.
* Smoking times are dependent on the pump speed, wood fuel type (woodchip, pellets), size, variety (hickory, maple, etc), quality, manufacturer, altitude and the ambient environment. Up to 12 hours using 100% hickory pellets with the pump set to its lowest speed. ** A separate heat source is required when hot smoking.
How To Use
Once you’ve mounted the Classic to your preferred smoking chamber, you can start smoking. It’s really easy.
STEP 1: Fill the hopper with you preferred woodchip or hardwood pellets.
STEP 2: Turn on the pump and adjust to high volume.
STEP 3: Light with a match and watch in amazement for a few minutes (there will be a ludicrous volume of smoke on high).
STEP 4: Crack open a beer and adjust to your preferred smoke volume.
Specifications
Hopper capacity 1 Litre / 1 Quart.
Up to 12* hours continuous smoking on one load (dependent on wood type, wood variety, pump speed and ambient environment). Wood pellets will last far longer than wood chip.
1 Kg (2.2 lb) of manuka wood chip will provide approximately 12 hours of smoking time (on a low pump setting).
Power options include: 110-120V AC 60Hz, 3.5W 220-240v AC 50Hz, 3.5W Rechargeable Li-ion Battery, 6000mAh, up to 40 hours on one charge.
* Using 100% flavorwood BBQ pellets with the pump set to its lowest speed.
What's In The Box
Smokai 1 Litre Classic Smoke Generator
Hardwood lid
Variable speed air pump
Food safe, high temperature silicone air tube
304 stainless steel fasteners
26 page owners manual
Where will you be using your Smoke Generator?
Whether you want to mount to your smoker, smokehouse, existing BBQ/Grillor a customised conversion, our self guided product selector will help you choose the right Smokai products to suit your application.
If you would like to mount the 1L Classic Smoke Generator to your BBQ/Grill, it is important to check compatibility by using the Selection Guide. Depending on the style of your BBQ/Grill, you may need to purchase an adapter, or choose to retrofit instead.
With over 96% 5 Star Ratings, our Smoke Generators are trusted everyday around the world by fisherman, hunters, pit masters, BBQ champions, home smoking enthusiasts, celebrity chefs and more good folk. Doing things the right way is in our DNA and our mission is to help you create legendary flavour every time!
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 1465 reviews.
I built a little 5 x 4 x 3 cold smoker. First try with the Smokai with some alder pellets. I did a dry salt and smoked for four days. We did King Salmon strips., two small white King fillets and seven silver salmon fillets.
I used a single tube from the pump and let it go for about 12 hours at a time.
The results were fantastic. Just packing up now hoping to enjoy some for quite a while.
The installation was a bit complicated because I had to drill the main and support holes. But once installed it works great. It pumps a huge amount of smoke which can be controlled. It turned my gas grill into a great smoker. No longer struggling by using a basket for smoke chips and trying to keep the chips burning.
Easy to install on a pellet smoker that either was cold or on fire. I've run several tests and the amount of smoke this little thing generates is amazing. Getting ready to smoke some salmon and jalapeno peppers. Thanks for the great product.
It works! Only problem I had was the Camp Chef Pellet Grill fan over rode the Smokai air pump when the grill cover was shut. I solved that problem by propping the grill cover slightly open which then allowed the smoke to fill the chamber. The beef brisket came out with a wonderful smoke taste. I hade tried other "cheap" cold smokers, but the Smokai beats them all!!
Tricky finding a good location to install it on the Traeger. Sure produces the smoke though. When I opened the lid I was literally blinded by the smoke. It was windy so by the time I took the picture it was blown away.
I have a Trager for the last 12 years. The Trager is going away and the Smokai is staying. You can do so much more with the Smokai, in the back yard, take it camping or just to friends home. VARY HAPPY with my Smokai!!
I have wanted this for a long time. The only thing that held me back was reading in your shipping policy about custom fees and lnport fees that may be due. Well I thought i would change it. Little did I know it would come out of Utah and I live in Las Vegas nv. I was so happy and wish I would have ordered it sooner. I love it and it does what you said it was supposed to do. I built a little pine box to smoke my cured salmon in. Thank you for a great product.
Love your product. I’m actually building a smoker out of corten. Ceramic insulation inside of the box and I’m building a touch screen pid to control the electric heater element. My unit will have a thermocouple and will be WiFi enabled so that I can control it and receive all information on my phone. I’m in prototype phase but when done will send the completed product. I love that I can hot/cold smoke with your generator.
Awesome product. I’m very impressed with the results so far and looking forward to using it for different meats and fish. Already tried it on some salmon and it was great.
I’m extremely happy with this cold smoke generator. Before buying it, I always used a traditional smoke maze/spiral, and it was constantly frustrating. It would often go out, and getting the airflow just right was always a challenge.
This new smoke generator with the air pump is an absolute game changer. The pump lets you easily adjust the amount of smoke, so you can get exactly the smoke level you want. Best of all, it keeps producing smoke consistently without going out.
It’s so much easier to use, much more reliable, and makes cold smoking far more enjoyable. I wish I had bought it sooner. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a dependable cold smoke generator!
This is what I was missing. I had to turn it down to the lowest air setting as it was producing too much smoke! Have used for both cold and hot smoking. Works as advertised. Is very sturdy and well built. Best smoker accessory ever….why did I wait so long to buy this. Y’all down there in NZ are doing it right…Thanks
Very easy install, only issue was the supplied bolts weren't long enough. The amout of smoke this thing generates is phenomenal. I installed this in a cabinet style electric smoker. The smoke that the smoker generated prior to the Smokai was very minimal on output verses the Smokai. Photos are immediately after install and the smoke is 100 times that prior. If you're thinking about purchasing one of these, pull the trigger, you won't be disappointed!
Excellent modification to my grill! Easy to install and to use. I've been smoke crazy! Sausages, porc butt, steak and even cold smoked salmon...it all comes out amazing. The 1L can do 4 hours of smoke on the high setting, and probably double that on the low. If you're planning on a very long smoke (like brisket), consider a larger model. As an intro to smoking, I love it!
I retired from Alaska to Wisconsin. One thing I’ve always enjoyed is smoking salmon. Your product allows me to cold smoke salmon once again. Made a batch of smoked salmon with bacon and maple syrup, it was melt in your mouth deliciousness.
So far, so great. I adapted it to my WSM 22". I've only used it for one cold smoking session and one hot smoking session. Worked great for both. I found I was able to hold at 250 with ease, no impact on my heat control. The build is precise and it's easy to use. No idea why I waited so long, it makes my smoker even more useable.
You want smoke this will give it to you. Easy to setup and use. Did have issues with some wood chips. Just had to make the big ones a little smaller. Zero issues with pellets, thing is awesome for the price. I still have many things I need to do with it.....
Easy to install
Have done some cheese and a couple pork bellies so far.
Turned out good. The unit makes cold smoke and was able to get smoke on cheese without melting it. The unit is made of stainless steel and should last a long time. I am certainly not disappointed with it.
The larger tube that holds the pellets will get hot . I would install on the back side if I had it to do over
Being a Kiwi living.in Darwin j had to get one of these!
I have a Traeger 575 pro so no super smoke function, I did as much reading as I could around how Smokai performs with a pellet grill. Most problems occur due to the pellet fan, I note I took a video of the smokai running without the grill on, and it was impressive!
Also used to smoke beef, pork, and wings to date. The smoke increase is perfect with the pump on high. Got a much deeper smoke ring than I am able to get traditionally. I put my chamber to the rear of the auger and it fits perfectly. I know there are warnings in the instructions about embers, but I think I’m going to fab up a simple drip tray to catch the embers, will share when complete but it’s the only thing that I think could be improved. (Or perhaps offer a pump that pushes more volume for those who want more smoke during pellet cooks). Overall I wails give this an 8.5/10
I was smoking 20 lbs of venison sausage and couldn’t control the temperature before I got the Smokai. With it I was able to keep the temp low enough to cook the sausage and the Smokai kept the smoke going for the entire time. My only issue was having to fabricate a plate for my Masterbuilt electric box smoker so I could mount the Smokai. I’ve included a picture showing the Smokai attached to the plate I made .
First smoke cook turned out awesome heaps of flavour really happy with the result
Can't wait for the next one
If your not smoking your just joking
Cheers for now
Smithy
Since there is no bracket for this specific Weber i simply drilled my holes to allow the lid holder to act as a partial mounting bracket by passing the air nipple thru the vertical support. I have only has this a short while, but it works perfectly and is very well made. Highly recommend!
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