Bradley 4 Rack Digital Smoker

Very disappointed – The smoke generator is a great idea but the bisquettes simply do not generate anywhere near enough smoke to flavour the food (and are very expensive). I tried smoking fish,chicken pieces, and sausages on separate occasions for several hours using the strongest woods(hickory and mesquite) only to find the finished product had virtually no smoke… Read more

flavour I have now purchased a pellet smoker tube. You fill the tube with smoking pellets,light the open end with a butane torch and put it in the bottom of the bradley oven with the temperature set as desired. This tube gives off lots and lots of smoke consistently for nearly 5 hours using about one dollars worth of pellets. I now just set the oven temperature and put the smoke tube in and get fantastic results I don't use the bisquette burner any more If you want nice smoked foods the bradley will disappoint

Excellent height, performance and quality – Excellent quality unit, with very useful features and exceptional chamber height. In vertical/cabinet style smokers there are not very many to choose from, and the Bradley is the best of the bunch. They have 2 heights 4 and 6, I purchased the 6. Can tell from the fit and finish this is a quality appliance. The performance matches! Excellent… Read more

smoking chamber height for hanging items like hams, sausages, fish fillet (side of salmon) etc. Cannot do this in a pellet smoker. The other useful feature are the separate controls for the smoker function and oven function/temperature. (They are independent of each other - use them together at the same time or one at a time) VERY useful when you want to cool/cold smoke (smoker on/oven off) or after there has been enough smoke, turn the smoker off and just use the oven to 'low and slow' the cook. (You don't have to keep feeding the smoker to maintain the oven temperature) Down side are the Bradley proprietary wood smoke 'puck/bisket'. Which were not available at the retailer - I needed to order online. There are some alternatives (sold on line) with metal canisters that can hold your own wood chips on the smoker heating element.

Would definitely purchase again.

Love to use this thing – I'm just a newbie to using a smoker but this thing makes it super easy, you just prep the meat pre heat it Chuck it in and forget, timer, temp smoke everything is set, I was worried that the wood bisquettes went a bit too fast and didn't burn right through before plunging into the water but you bust one of those bad boys in half and its burnt all… Read more

the same. I have the 4 rack and its light and super easy to move around, its about the size of a bar fridge tiny bit smaller though

Excellent No Fuss Smoking – We bought our Bradley 4 Rack Digital Smoker in November 2011, so by now we have a lot of experience with it. Previously we had a Brinkmann bullet smoker and while it did introduce me to the world of smoking food and did an excellent job, I tired of handling charcoal, getting many faces full of smoke, and having to cook by intuition. So I saw the… Read more ·  1

Bradley being demonstrated and bought mine. It takes the guess work right out of smoking because using the digital control unit you can regulate the oven temperature and the period of feed in of the bisquettes (or pucks) to get your smoking 'nailed' with precision. You must use Bradley's bisquettes and these cost about $1/bisquette and come in boxes of say 48 or 100, and the smoker uses 1 every 20 minutes for whatever time you set the smoker (not the oven) - so if you want smoke for 3 hours it will burn 9 bisquettes. Creative Food Smokers and Barbecues Galore stock the bisquettes. The oven is regulated separately and has its own element. I have smoked whole chicken, whole brisket, whole turkey, pork ribs, fish, prawns, and I am a master at smoking Atlantic Salmon and Ocean Trout. This smoker is definitely low and slow - it takes me over 6 hours to smoke a fillet of Atlantic Salmon, and about 10 hours or more to smoke a whole brisket. The result is always great. You do need a meat thermometer with a probe into the meat and so that it has a digital base unit connected by cable and placed on the outside...this is important to ensure the meat cooks to the correct safe temperature and you can check it without opening the smoker - guess work is not good enough. The bisquettes do not incinerate completely and this is deliberate - apparently the latter stages of any wood burning process produces smoke that is very carcinogenic, - so the Bradley moves the burning bisquette off the heat element into a bowl of water before it smokes through to the most carcinogenic stage. The Bradley is a Canadian designed product, popular in Canada and the US and made in China these days. We are very happy with the Bradley and its size (4 rack) has been more than adequate for all of our entertaining. It is not on castors and I had to make up a trolley base with castors so that I can move it easily, although it is not heavy. Recommended.