That heavy creosote taste is what I would get from my Masterbuilt electric. I’ve used a smoke tube a couple times in my RecTec and while it did add smoke flavor I thought it was bitter.
I go back and forth with various cooks. Sometimes I feel I don’t have enough smoke flavor but everyone else eating the food thinks it’s great.
Then I realized my hair and clothes are covered in smoke flavor which was affecting my ability to taste the smoke....