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Knives...including electric.

[dk117]

Have you had any luck with getting them to produce good smoke?

I have not tried them yet but, other than the items that I mentioned above, I've not had a problem with the ones that I already have. First of all, I light them with a torch (I let them burn for five or ten minutes to insure good start) and place the tubes in the bottom of the pit near the fire pot/deflector, secondly, if doing cold smoke, I disable the auger and igniter and just run the fan.

running the fan seems to be the key.  I felt like yorkdude about the acrid smoke, but with the fan running ... well it seems to be a fine solution for cold smoking.   I don't bother with it for a normal cook.  No need on the Gator. 

[yorkdude]

Have you had any luck with getting them to produce good smoke?

I have not tried them yet but, other than the items that I mentioned above, I've not had a problem with the ones that I already have. First of all, I light them with a torch (I let them burn for five or ten minutes to insure good start) and place the tubes in the bottom of the pit near the fire pot/deflector, secondly, if doing cold smoke, I disable the auger and igniter and just run the fan.

running the fan seems to be the key.  I felt like yorkdude about the acrid smoke, but with the fan running ... well it seems to be a fine solution for cold smoking.   I don't bother with it for a normal cook.  No need on the Gator.

I did not ever run the fan, I always was going to but I just gave up on it.
I did however let it burn (after being torch lit) for about 15 minutes just outside on a rack and it still seemed like I would not have liked it.
Probably operator error on my part, just didn't get too excited about messing with it.

[Bentley]

There were your top 3 from original list!

[Bar-B-Lew]

A few questions to get some more information before I vote

1) Bentley - what are examples of what are being considered as food containers?
2) All - for those that have electric knives, what do you use it to cut and why do you prefer it over a manual knife?

[Bentley]

I did not realize I reset the numbers, I thought I just put up the top 3 for folks to see.  And container you want!

Question number 2 is easy, bread, and roast are the top 2.  Easier to control portion.  Also watermelon and pineapple skin removal.

[cookingjnj]

I voted for the knives.  I am looking for a good slicing knife.  I currently use an 8".  Would like to graduate to a 10" or longer for slicing brisket etc.