Home made smoke generators are easy to build from ready to make components which are available from Home Depot. Here again, there are many options. https://www.barbecue-smoker-recipes.com/cold-smoke-generator.html This cold smoke generator is designed to work in any smoker and grill (gas, charcoal, or electric) and with any smoker. Smokebox - a container where wood burns and and smoke is produced. Cold Smoke devices are available to create the smoke or accessories to existing BBQ smokers are available, will talk about the equipment later on. So, we have to improvise by creating a cold smoke generator. Try it with a chunk of cheese first if you aren't happy with my suggestion. The system consists of three parts: Air pump, connecting tubing and an air injecting nozzle. Rather than building an entire smoker dedicated to cold smoking, another option is to build a generator or smoke gun to cold smoke your meat in an existing grill or smoker. Lighter hardwoods like apple & cherry are my preference when it comes to cold smoking. When you use chips ( loaded loosely) their is more air circulating inside the tube and reduces the amount of condensation and gives off blue smoke. Cold-Smoker Generator Plans. My cold smoker always has condensation build up to the point water drips from the top cap and makes the sawdust or pellets wet. This cold smoke generator uses a small hopper that’s heated by a battery powered electrical heating unit. The generated smoke is then funneled through a tube and into a dome that you place over your food or cocktail. It will give a great flavor to your fish or meat by exposing them to a delicious smell of smoldering wood. It’s a pretty simple looking mechanism – but it’s pretty genius how they pull it off. When we’ve decided to cold-smoke, we quickly realize that the lowest setting on our hot-smoker is already way over the temperature that we need. Rather than turning the grill or smoker on, it just acts as a chamber to capture the smoke. To our surprise it has performed incredibly well and it was very easy to make. If you're building one at home, the received wisdom is that you need a smoke chamber, a smoke generator and a pipe which conducts the smoke between the two, cooling it en route. Heavier or strong woods like mesquite will create a deeper stronger flavor, ideally, I like to mix them. Choosing the Wood. You can buy them I also own an A-Maz-N Pellet Smoker and find it pretty awesome), or make them yourself.