The amount of smoke it produces is fine but like others have mentioned the paint peels and turns into a black liquid leaking all over my porch I thought maybe after a few uses it would stop but it's only getting worse. Aside from that pellets and chips get stuck in the tube and won't fall to the bottom and defeats the whole purpose of this smoker because I have to constantly push the pellets down therefore I can't really walk away from my smoke. I expected better Quality from masterbuilt.