Manufactured in New Zealand | Trusted Worldwide Since 2011
The 4 Litre Monster is our largest Smoke Generator. Fired up, the Monster produces an adjustable, ludicrous volume of quality, cool, natural wood-fired smoke, delivering exceptional flavour every time. Its sleek design reflects the uncompromising quality and superb performance that is Smokai.
Proudly designed and manufactured in New Zealand
Matched to larger grills, barrels, smokers, smokehouses and conversions like fridges and sheds
4 Litre Capacity - for up to 32 hours* smoking time (refer "Get Smoking" below)
Built tough from 304L hygienic stainless steel
Use woodchip or 100% hardwood pellets
Choose from the Smokai mains powered option, or smoke wirelessly for up to 40hrs with the cordless, rechargable battery option (also available as an optional add-on)
Made In New Zealand: Proudly designed and manufactured in New Zealand since 2011. We place utmost importance on attention to detail and quality control to provide an exceptional kiwi product. (Air pump made in China.)
Smokai-Modular System™: Invented by our founders, 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.
4 Litre Hopper: The gravity fed hopper holds 4 Litres of woodchip or BBQ pellets. Using 100% hardwood BBQ pellets on a low pump speed, the 4L Monster can produce smoke for up to 32 hours*.
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.
Power Options: Choose from a mains powered pump or our wireless, rechargeable battery powered pump for off-grid smoking. Take your setup to the beach, holiday home, camp or on the road with ease.
304L Hygeinic Stainless Steel: There is stainless and there is stainless. Smokai uses the very best, locally sourced, certified, hygienic 304L stainless steel.
Silicone Air Tube: Made from 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 32 hours*, the Smokai Monster 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 and the ambient environment. Up to 32 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 Monster 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 4 Litre / 4 Quart.
Up to 32* hours continuous smoking on one load (dependent on wood type, wood variety, pump speed and ambient environment).
Power options include: 110-120V AC 60Hz, 3.5W 220-240v AC 50Hz, 3.5W Rechargeable Li-ion Battery, 6000mAh, up to 40Hrs per charge
What's In The Box
Smokai 4 Litre Monster 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/Grill or a customised conversion, our self guided product selector will help you choose the right Smokai products to suit your application.
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: 5.0 / 5 from 158 reviews.
Fired it up today to do a test run to get used to it before smoking food. Thanks great smoke generator. I have followed Tom Muller for a few years and he gets the credit for me buying your product. Thanks again.
It smokes really well, but it will not get up to the temperature that I need to smoke with I’ve got to find some way of adding heat to it but the smoker really smokes good
Previously on this large brick smokehouse i had a smaller smoke generator that didn’t produce enough smoke for long duration smokes so getting the monster produced a ton of smoke and filled up the smoker! Made a great batch of sausage so im really impressed with it! High quality construction, the wood chips
lit very easily and stayed burning producing great smoke for 6 hours with pump on high. Highly recommend!
I love the Smokai! I have another brand which gets very hot and keeps hardening my air line to the point it turns brittle and breaks. That doesn’t happen on the Smokai!
I should have purchased this years ago!!
Troy
I constructed a smoker some years ago and the original configuration used an incinerator in which I let sawdust smolder and then fed the smoke into the base of the unit. This produced erratic result and it was difficult to keep the sawdust burning over a long period.
After a lot of research and viewing comments by others I decided to upgrade to a Smokai Monster for the smoke generator. I removed the bottom of the original unit and constructed a new base and smoke distributor. The Smokai unit is attached to the side if the new distributor and provides a constant and consistent flow of smoke.
I have used it twice in the first week of ownership and produced a side of salmon and smoked haddock. The result is beyond expectation and the product is by far the best I have ever managed to produce.
Chris
We are a small family operation in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwest Virginia. We use all traditional dry cure processes for hams and bacon along with added cold smoke for flavor. We were looking for a simple process to use and not have to babysit a stove and manage heat. Smokai has provided that for us. This was initial start up using the 4L. My Smokehouse is 7’x8’x7’. We did a 24 hr test run using Hickory pellets. It produced ample amount of smoke. I will say after about 20-24 hours we needed to clean some ash from the bottom of the Smokai. It did not take much cleaning just ran a piece of wire across through the two holes at the bottom,which I thought was to be expected after that amount of time running. Overall this unit produces what I call true cold smoke and plenty of it. I would highly recommend this product.
Excellent. I expected a long delay as I live in the US and this product has a long swim to get here.....it just took a few days!
I purchased the Smokai to help with luke-warm, cold and even normal smoking. My smoker was having a hard time adjusting down to 165F which is where I like to smoke salmon/steelhead. I added the Smokai to the back of my grill and the problem is solved. Since my smoker has a fan to assist pellet burn, I find I have to just crack the main door ajar to create the perfect atmosphere for the Smokai. My first batch of fish smoked in 4 hours to an internal temp of 140F--let the sit in the smoker for 1 hour with no heat-just smoke--it is perfect; moist, very smokey flavored an beautiful color!!!! I did raise the smoke temperature to 180 and cut way down on the time. finish product is even better than expected!!