I want to be able to slow smoke my rainbow trout, amongst other things, and after a small layer of ash developes in the chip pan, the chips dumped on top will not get up to smoking temperature. This requires an increase in temperature to get the chips smoking which cooks the food too quickly. This is a problem.
Also, have only used the smoker 3 times and have noticed strange things happening with the digital controller... I managed to get it working the last time but now I'm concerned that I will prepare a lot of food and the smoker will fail.
Finally, why are there no handles built into a unit like this? Very difficult to move around. Handles are so easy to include in a design!!