Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This smoker is incredible, easy, and reliable to use. The unit heats up very fast and smokes very well. I just tried my first boxed pizza in this smoker and I never want another oven pizza again! The flavors from the cheese, meat, vegetables and bread are like a kaleidoscope of bursting flavors. Boxed pizza from the oven was never this good. Fish and poultry have also been very very good smoked in this smoker. I found the temperature marks around the heat setting dial are calibrated for water in the pan under the rack (wet smoking). If you want to dry smoke, such as with a pizza on the rack with no water in the pan under it, you have to allow for the smoker getting about 60 degrees hotter than the dial. If you dry smoke a large food item, the difference may only be 40 degrees. At the hot end of the dial, the difference starts going away. I marked my dial with some enamel paint so I have a calibrated dial when dry smoking. I've included a picture of my dial, and the white dots are each 50 degrees apart from 200 degrees F to 450 degrees F. If you want to mark your own smoker, I'd test these dot positions with your smoker before permanently marking it. Maybe start out by marking your dots with just a pencil. Happy smoking!