Smoke Generator for Wooden Hive

Smoke Generator for Wooden Hive
$164.00 AUD
$164.00 AUD
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A stack of wooden beehive boxes makes a compact, modular cold smoker. The Smokai 1 Litre Classic Smoke Generator mounts low on the bottom box and delivers a controllable volume of fresh, wood-fired smoke for hours. Standard hive parts, a few drilled holes and under an hour to build.

Heavy Duty Stainless Steel

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Smokai Modular System™

Invented by our founders in 2011, the modular design makes mounting, assembly, disassembly, ash disposal and cleaning quick. The precision-engineered, heavy-duty components lock together in seconds, so the Smoke Generator comes off the smokehouse for cleaning and goes straight back on.

Made in New Zealand

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Smoke Generator for Wooden Hive

Smoke Generator for Wooden Hive
$164.00 AUD
$164.00 AUD
Sale Sold out
A stack of wooden beehive boxes makes a compact, modular cold smoker. The Smokai 1 Litre Classic Smoke Generator mounts low on the bottom box and delivers a controllable volume of fresh, wood-fired smoke for hours. Standard hive parts, a few drilled holes and under an hour to build.

Power Source

Go cordless for complete freedom, or keep it simple with plug-in mains AC power. We recommend cordless for the most versatile Smokai setup.

The powerful 6,000 mAh rechargeable option gives you up to 40hrs smoking time on one charge. And when it’s time to recharge, plug it in and keep smoking while it charges.

Cordless Power

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Your Hive Smoker. Controlled smoke volume. Leave it running.

Mount the Smoke Generator to the outside of the bottom box and your hive smoker has a steady, adjustable supply of natural wood-fired smoke, with no fire or embers inside the boxes.

  • Controlled smoke without a pellet tube, smoldering tray or open flame inside the hive.
  • Built for cold smoking. Stack another box when you need more room.
  • Up to 12* hours of smoke on one load.
  • Mains or cordless battery air pump (up to 40 hours per charge) for smokehouses off the grid

*Up to 12 hours using 100% hickory hardwood pellets with the air pump on its lowest speed and favourable conditions. Run time varies with pump speed, wood type, wood variety and conditions.

Control Your Smoke™

Mounted to the outside of your bottom hive box, the Smokai Smoke Generator delivers a controllable volume of fresh, wood-fired smoke. Dial it from light to heavy to suit the fish, cheese, bacon or other food on the racks or hanging from dowels.

Cold Smoking

This is what a hive smoker does best. Let the Smoke Generator do the work. Salmon, trout, cheese, butter, bacon and more. Smoked for long sessions. Adjust to suit your taste, from light to heavy.

Smokai Modular System™

Invented by our founders in 2011, the modular design makes mounting, assembly, disassembly, ash disposal and cleaning quick. The precision-engineered, heavy-duty components lock together in seconds, so the Smoke Generator comes off the hive for cleaning and goes straight back on.

Trusted by the Best

Smokai Smoke Generators are used everyday around the world by home enthusiasts, fishermen, hunters, pit masters, celebrity chefs, artisian smokehouses, butchers, a michelin star smokehouse and many more.

Control Your Smoke™

Mounted to the outside of your bottom hive box, the Smokai Smoke Generator delivers a controllable volume of fresh, wood-fired smoke. Dial it from light to heavy to suit the fish, cheese, bacon or other food on the racks or hanging from dowels.

Cold Smoking

This is what a hive smoker does best. Let the Smoke Generator do the work. Salmon, trout, cheese, butter, bacon and more. Smoked for long sessions. Adjust to suit your taste, from light to heavy.

Smokai Modular System™

Invented by our founders in 2011, the modular design makes mounting, assembly, disassembly, ash disposal and cleaning quick. The precision-engineered, heavy-duty components lock together in seconds, so the Smoke Generator comes off the hive for cleaning and goes straight back on.

Trusted by the Best

Smokai Smoke Generators are used everyday around the world by home enthusiasts, fishermen, hunters, pit masters, celebrity chefs, artisian smokehouses, butchers, a michelin star smokehouse and many more.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Bolt it to the outside of the bottom hive box, fill the hopper with dry 210mm hardwood chips or 100% hardwood pellets, light it and set the smoke volume. Your Smokai Smoke Generator delivers steady, controllable wood-fired smoke up through the stacked boxes for hours on one load. Racks or dowels sit on the inner lip of each box, so food can be racked or hung at every level. Simple, economical and practical.

  • Yes. The Smokai 1 Litre Classic mounts to a standard wooden hive box (a "super") with no adaptor. Drill a 1¼ in (30 mm) hole low on the bottom box for the smoke outlet and two small holes for the fittings, fit the smoke outlet through the hole and secure the Smoke Generator with the hardware supplied.

  • The 1 Litre Classic is the Smoke Generator we recommend for hive smokers. A stack of hive boxes is a compact chamber, and the 1 Litre Classic is sized to suit it, with up to 12 hours of smoke on one load. If you later build a larger smokehouse, the 3 Litre Magnum and 4 Litre Monster are built for bigger chambers and longer sessions.

  • Standard wooden hive parts from an apiary supplier: a base, hive boxes (supers) stacked to the height you need, and a lid. Choose untreated pine or cedar. Add a Smokai 1 Litre Classic Smoke Generator with a mains or cordless air pump, two Smokai Adjustable Vents for airflow, and racks or dowels for the food.

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How it works

IT’S EASY TO SMOKE WITH SMOKAI

Step 01 Add your wood

Fill your Smokai Smoke Generator with your choice of 100% natural hardwood BBQ pellets or 2–10 mm wood chips, in the wood variety you prefer.

Step 02 Bring on the smoke

Turn on, light the wood and let Smokai deliver a controllable volume of fresh, natural wood-fired smoke to suit your food and your taste.

Step 03 Smoke it your way

Dial the smoke up or down. Cold smoke fish, cheese, bacon and more, or fire up your separate heat source to hot smoke brisket, steak, lamb and beyond, introducing as much fresh, wood-fired smoke as you choose.

Step 04 Sit back with the people who matter

Enjoy food packed with authentic smokehouse flavour that brings friends and family together and keeps them coming back for more.

Installing Your Smokai

RATED 4.9 BY SMOKERS WORLDWIDE

Great product, made a hive smoker. Would highly recommend for cold smoke.

Stanley J.
Stanley J.

I made a hive style smoker using the 1 liter model smoker and it is working great! So far have made several batches of Cold Smoked Salmon, two batches of cold smoked bacon and smoked almonds and pecans.

Jerry S.
Jerry S.

Smoked perfectly in my beehive smoker with manuka wood chips.

Andrew B.
Andrew B.
Our philosophy

SMOKE EQUALS FLAVOR

Smokai’s product philosophy is simple: design the worlds best Smoke Generators and Accessories that give people control over natural wood-fired smoke that delivers authentic smokehouse flavour.

Every product is purposefully engineered using robust materials, modular construction and practical details that make it easy to use, maintain and adapt to different smoking setups. No unnecessary complexity. No disposable design. No gimmicks. Just dependable, beautifully made equipment built to perform season after season.

  • The Smoke Generator runs on 1/16 to 3/8 in (2 to 10 mm) wood chips, or 100% hardwood BBQ pellets (with no binders or additives), available from most BBQ stockists.

    The gravity-fed design and controlled airflow convert that wood into smoke at the rate you set. Exact run time depends on your output setting, your wood (chips burn faster than pellets), wood variety and conditions.

    Whatever you load, you’re measuring smoke in hours, not minutes.

  • Because we're relentless about quality: the materials, the component manufacturing, the quality control, the testing, the performance. Keeping production in our New Zealand factory is what lets us hold that standard at every step.

    It shows in the details. Certified, heavy-duty 304L stainless steel, milled into tube on site to AS 1528.1, the standard for stainless steel tube in food processing and other hygienic applications. Every Smoke Generator passes through multiple checks at a tube manufacturing level, component production level, again as a completed assembly, and is then delivered assembled.

    Even the few parts that we have to source offshore from the most reputable manufacturers are held to the same bar: air pumps custom-built to our specification to match the Smoke Generator, and independently certified high-temperature, food-safe silicone tube to feed the air to the burn.

    We've built them this way since 2011. We do things right or not at all.

  • We recommend new, untreated pine or cedar hive boxes from an apiary supplier. Boxes that have housed bees carry wax and propolis, and some have been painted, wax-dipped or treated to protect the timber. When the boxes are going to hold food, start with timber you know is untreated.



  • Yes. You can either disassemble the Smoke Generator while leaving its built-in mount attached to the hive box, or quickly remove the entire Smoke Generator.

    The Smokai Modular System™ is designed to make disassembly, ash disposal, cleaning and reassembly quick and straightforward. Its precision-engineered components lock together in seconds.

    The supplied fittings include wing nuts, so the entire Smoke Generator can also be removed in seconds when required.

MOUNTING YOUR SMOKE GENERATOR

Select a suitable location on the outside of your wooden hive to mount the Smoke Generator. It should be low down, easily accessible and positioned in a well-ventilated area.

Step 1

DRILL

Drill a 1¼ in (30 mm) hole low on the bottom hive box for the 1 Litre Classic. Then drill two small holes for the mounting fittings.

Step 2

MOUNT TO YOUR HIVE

Pass the smoke outlet through the hole and fix the Smoke Generator with the bolts and wing nuts supplied. Stack your boxes, fit the
vents; one on the bottom box and one on the top box.

Step 3

START SMOKING

Fill with your preferred smoking wood. Turn the pump to high. Light. Once lighted, leave burning for 5 minutes, then adjust to your preferred smoke volume.

Meet Tony, the man behind the brand

THE HARD YARDS DESERVE A REWARD

Earned on the water, up in the hills, or from a walk down to the local store and back. That effort should end in something worth remembering. Raw ingredients turned into smoked food that gets eaten, shared, and talked about long after the plate's empty.

That's where Smokai started. I'm a fisherman and a hunter, and smoking is still the best way I know to serve up your hard-fought fish or game or a good cut from the butcher. In 2010, we invented the first Smokai Smoke Generator: modular, stainless steel, built to last. All these year later, that design remains largely unchanged.



Our mission is to put the right tools, woods, resources and knowledge in your hands, so you get legendary results every time you cold or hot smoke your fish, meat or any other suitable food.

We do the lot ourselves, start to finish, in New Zealand. We're a bit obsessed with quality. Compare our gear to anything else and you'll see it.



Today Smokai has shipped to over 65 countries and is used daily by backyard smokers, pit masters, chefs, butchers and artisan smokehouses. Same passion behind it. Same respect for what nature provides.


Because legendary flavour begins with quality smoke.



Cheers, Tony

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

Mount the Smoke Generator to the outside and your smokehouse has a steady, adjustable supply of natural wood-fired smoke with no separate fire pit to feed.

  • Your Choice: Smokai 1L, 3L or 4L Smoke Generator
  • Mains AC Power - AUS/NZ 220-240V
  • Hardwood lid
  • Variable speed air pump
  • Food safe, high temperature silicone air tube
  • 304 stainless steel fasteners
  • Comprehensive owners manual

SMOKER RECIPES

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Hot Smoked Lamb Ribs

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Hot Smoked Leg Of Lamb

Hot Smoked Leg Of Lamb

If you're going to cook a leg of lamb, then smoke it. This smoked leg of lamb recipe is bloody delicious and is very easy to prepare. Once you ta...

Cold Smoked Trout

Cold Smoked Trout

Wetting a line on a river in hunt of a rainbow or brown is something special. Mostly, we release our catch to fight another day, but every now and...

Cold Smoked Salmon

Cold Smoked Salmon

We reckon that our cold smoked salmon is the absolute best. It is very easy to make at home with our simple to follow recipe and your Smokai Smoke...

Hot Smoked Trevally

Hot Smoked Trevally

An absolute classic - hot smoked fish. Is it really summer without the smell, the taste and the joy of preparing and sharing your catch with friend...

Cold Smoked Kingfish

Cold Smoked Kingfish

There are not many saltwater fish species that lend well to cold smoking. Generally speaking, the fish needs to have a reasonably high fat content ...

Dry Cured Cold Smoked Bacon

Dry Cured Cold Smoked Bacon

Dry cured bacon is certainly the most delicious kind of bacon. It's how bacon has been made for centuries and once you make your own, you'll ever b...

Sticky Pork Ribs

Sticky Pork Ribs

These ribs are so damn good and easy to make, after the first lot, you'll be ordering a regular supply of fresh ribs from your local butcher for a ...

Hot Smoked Ham

Hot Smoked Ham

Transform your holiday feast with this Smokai Hot Smoked Ham recipe. A twist on the classic Christmas centrepiece that's easily achievable at home ...

Hot Smoked Leg Of Lamb

Hot Smoked Leg Of Lamb

If you're going to cook a leg of lamb, then smoke it. This smoked leg of lamb recipe is bloody delicious and is very easy to prepare. Once you ta...

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