Smokintex 1100 Pro Series Electric Smoker Review 

An electric smoker is the best tool for any outdoor cookout. If you’ve never used one before, then you’re seriously missing out on tender, meat and veggies cooked to perfection. The Smokintex 1100 Pro Series electric smoker is very beginner friendly, compact, and comes equipped with some great features.

This smoker features a unique, well-insulated design, which is what makes it so efficient. Additionally, it offers a low starting temperature of just one hundred degrees, so it’s also a suitable choice if you want to cold smoke fruits, veggies, pasta, and cheese. This versatile little Smokintexsmoker is also available at a reasonable price, giving you every reason to buy.

If you don’t know how to use an electric smoker, this model’s simple design will give you more confidence to try your hand at this delicious way to barbeque your favorite foods.

Overview and Features

If you’re shopping around for a new electric smoker, you’ll have an easier time finding a model designed to feed more than eight people, than you will finding a powerful, compact smoker. The reason being, when people use a smoker it’s often for special occasions such as family barbecues or Sunday dinner.

But if you’re looking for a compact, efficient model that can make enough food for your immediate family, this easy to use smoker is up to the task.

This electrically powered smoker is made out of stainless steel and can be used to smoke cheese, meat, and veggies. Weighing in at just fifty pounds, this compact model is the perfect choice for small families.

During the smoking process, the 1100 can handle up to twenty-three pounds of food, which is pretty impressive given the its smaller size.

Traditional smokers use a separate smoke chamber connected to a firebox and heat is controlled based on how much air the user allows into the smoke chamber. But traditional smokers are poorly ventilated. So, not only will you run into problems controlling the temperature, but you’ll have trouble controlling the smoke, so it doesn’t overpower the flavor of the meat.

With most electric smokers, you’ll find a water tray which works to counteract the drying effect, so your meat will come out moist and tender and not dry out easily.

But the Smokintex works differently. The included smoke chamber features excellent insulation, so not much heat is needed. This translates to a reduced airflow, so the meat will not dry out.

On the top of the smoker, you’ll also find a small hole that’s used to vent the smoke.

Wood Chip Box

Located at the bottom of the smoker, there’s a small wood box that you can use to add your favorite wood chips for the perfect smoky flavor. When you add a couple of cups of wet wood chips, the chips will smolder continuously, until the thermostat turns the burner off. Most of the smoke produced will remain inside the smoker thanks to the well-insulated design. As the smoke slowly dissipates, the thermostat will switch the burner back on to add more.

As your meat cooks, the juices will drip down into the wood chip box to add more moisture to the air. As you can see, the smoker’s design is very efficient.

To fill the wood chip box, you only need to use a quarter of a cup, compared to larger models which can require two to four cups.

Maintenance

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If you’re tired of dealing with a huge mess after using a gas or wood powered smoker, then you’ll love this low maintenance model.  With the 1100, all you have to do is remove the grills and wipe down the interior.

Ease of Use

This smoker is the epitome of a set it and forget it, model. All you have to do is set the thermostat and set the timer.

Performance

This smoker can cook enough food to feed four to six people and it comes with a total of three racks and offers twelve by twelve inches of cooking space per rack. Using a single rack, you’ll have approximately eleven inches of clearance. With all three racks, there will be a little over three inches of clearance from rack to rack.

If you’re intimidated by larger and more powerful pro-quality models, such as the Masterbuilt electric smoker, then this model can be the perfect solution.

Beginners will be blown away by how easy it is to use. Just add wood chips, slide in a tray or two of ribs, set the timer and you’re good to go.

The smoker’s cold smoke feature is a great added bonus, but you’ll need to purchase the cold plate separately. The cold smoke feature allows you to prepare an entirely new variety of foods including cheese, pasta, and fruit.

Power

The smoker is powered by a three-hundred and fifty-watt heating element that provides a temp ranging from one hundred up to two hundred and fifty degrees.

For some, the size of the smoker is just too small. To give you a better idea of how big the inside of the smoker is, it can handle a whole turkey up to twelve pounds but will not have any room to spare.

If you want a smoker you can use during the week to feed your immediate family, and you don’t want to deal with the mess that comes with using larger smokers, then the 1100 definitely fits the bill.

If you’re looking for a larger smoker, click here to read our ultimate buyer’s guide which includes five of the leading models of smokers on the market.

Pros

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• Compact design
• Low maintenance
• Easy to use
• Portable
• Durable

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Cons

• The door can be difficult to shut
• Not designed to cook for large gatherings
• Does not come with cold smoking plate

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All in all, this model is very efficient. Don’t let its small size fool you. It can produce some great tasting smoked ribs, just like a larger model, it’s only real drawback is its size. Obviously, this smoker isn’t capable of feeding everyone at your Sunday barbeque, but it’s not designed to. Instead, this compact model is more marketed to smaller families who don’t need a huge smoker but want a small model that can produce the same type of results, just in smaller quantities.

We gave this model a rating of four out of five stars.

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