BBQ smoker tubes offer an easy way to improve the performance of your pellet smoker or even turn your charcoal grill into a backyard smoker. Upgrade your garden kitchen today with our guide to the best pellet smoker tubes.
One of the best upgrades YOU can make to your pellet smoker today is a pellet smoker tube. Don’t be fooled by their small design – these little accessories can greatly improve the quality of your smoked pellet feed.
These add-ons can help enrich the levels of woody flavors and aromas in your pellet smoker and improve temperatures if you’re having heat retention issues in your smoker or grill.
Although I primarily use them to enhance my pellet smoker, they also come in handy for injecting some wood into a charcoal smoker or grill.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through 5 of the best out there today and give you some tips and tricks to get the most out of them. Let’s get into that.
- Best Pellet Grills: Lanney 12-Inch Stainless Steel
Stainless steel and excellent ventilation make this a great smoker tube for diffusing the aromas and flavor of the wood on your grill. - Runner Up: Carpathen Smoke Tube
Small square design that can turn any grill into a smoke. Perfect for propane grills or to confirm the performance of your pellet stove. - Best Budget Option: LizzQ Premium
Inexpensive and adaptable to any grill, this tube can still cook for up to 5 hours.
Lanney Pellet Tube Smoker
The LANNEY Pellet Tube Smoker features a hexagonal design, which is much more convenient than traditional round tube smokers. Thanks to its hexagonal shape, this pellet smoker does not roll and is easier to place on the grill.
In terms of quality and durability, the LANNEY Pelletsmoker is outstanding. Everything is made of stainless steel, making it very robust against heat, rust and physical abuse. You can expect years of service from this thing.
LANNEY also advertises this incense tube as having up to 5 hours of smoke, which is typical for incense tubes.
The Lanney Pellet Smoker Tube is also specifically designed for pellets, but works with wood chips. It’s 12 inches tall, so as long as you can fit wood fuel in it it will do the trick.
In addition to the smoke tube itself, LANNEY also includes some useful accessories in the package. You will get a silicone brush, a tube brush and a pair of hanging hooks. The hooks come in handy when your grill has little or no space to place the smoker.
There are deals for the Lanney Tube Grill with fewer accessories and that would be good if you are on a very tight budget. There is also a square tube smoker option available which should offer comparable smoking performance.
The LANNEY Pellet Smoker is also nice to look at and LANNEY offers a money back guarantee if you don’t like it.
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LIZZQ Premium Pellet Smoker Tube
The LIZZQ Pellet Tube Smoker appears to be identical to the LANNEY Pellet Tube Smoker. It’s again made in a non-roll hexagonal shape and should work well on any grill.
What sets the LIZZQ Pellet Smoker Tube apart is the accessories. There are no brushes or hooks here, just a free e-book of grilling tips and recipes. If you already have cleaning supplies, it probably doesn’t make sense to pay more for the LANNEY Smoker. The recipe book is also a nice bonus, but will be more useful for less experienced shoppers.
The materials and tube design of the LIZZQ Pellet Smoker are nothing new or extraordinary. This incense burner is made of stainless steel so it is abuse resistant and can be used for years. The size in the LIZZQ tube is again 12 inches, and LIZZQ also claims 5 hours of grilling.
Like LANNEY, LIZZQ offers a money-back guarantee on it, so even if it doesn’t work for YOU, YOU should be safe.
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- ✅ The Pellet Smoker can produce smoke for UP TO 5 HOURS SMOKE, perfect for both…
- ✅CAN BE USED WITH DIFFERENT WOOD PELLETS, such as cherry, hickory, mesquite, apple,…
Carpathen Smoker Tube
The incense tube from Carpathen has a rectangular shape, so it differs from hexagonal tubes in convenience and practicality.
Like the hexagonal smoking tubes, the Carpathen tube will not wrap around your grill. However, since it’s rectangular, you might be able to fit slightly larger pellets or chunks of charcoal into this thing. It is also better to consume charcoal irregularly.
Below this, YOU can roll up the hexagonal smoking tubes to reposition them on the grill, while the square tubes need to be lifted.
However, these differences are fairly small and we don’t think they matter to most people. The Carpathen Tube grills like the hexagonal smoker. It’s 12 inches again and lasts 5 hours, so nothing to mention in terms of performance.
Carpathen also includes several freebies with this smoker tube: a meat temperature chart, a recipe book, a guide to marinades and sauces, a smoker tube instruction manual and a canvas bag. The same guides are helpful for less experienced buyers.
Carpathen also offers a money back guarantee on this incense burner which is nice.
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Skoo Pellet Smoker Tube
The Skoo Pellet Smoker Tube is a good alternative to the previously reviewed Lanney Tube. This product includes a tube brush along with a hook and instructions for use, making it virtually identical to the Lanney tube. YOU should choose one or the other incense burner based on current prices and availability.
Remarkably, the Skoo Pellet Smoker Tube has a Skoo logo on the side, which distinguishes it from other tubes on this list. The area around the logo is solid, which can reduce smoke a bit. But in practice we don’t think you’ll be able to tell the difference.
The Skoo Pellet Smoker also arguably looks better and more unique thanks to the logo, but we prefer the simpler design of the other smoker tubes.
Skoo then backs its products with a money-back guarantee, so if you don’t like this tube even for grilling, your investment should be safe.
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Kaduf Pellet Smoker Tube
Finally we have the Kaduf Pellet Smoker Tube. At the time of this review, this smoker tube was slightly more expensive than other hex smoker tubes on the list, so it may be of better quality. This could make the tube more durable, but in practice I don’t think you’ll notice much of a difference. After all, smoking tubes don’t have to be precision engineered to work.
Regardless, the Kaduf Pellet Pipe features a familiar 12-inch design advertised with 5 hours of smoke. The Kaduf tube’s design doesn’t really make sense: Like previous picks, it doesn’t roll and is made of stainless steel to resist heat and corrosion.
Along with the tube itself, Kaduf comes with a quick start guide and recipe e-book, which is great for beginners.
However, unlike the above brands, Kaduf doesn’t seem to offer a money-back guarantee; At least it doesn’t say so in the product description. But you should be fine – this incense tube IS identical to the above tubes and WILL BE with proper use.
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- SIMPLE, SAFE AND DELICIOUS SMOKING – The Digital’s small size makes it easy to use on any grill…
What is a Pellet Tube Smoker?
Pellet tube smokers are special lightweight devices designed to sit on top of your grill’s grates, producing additional smoke and heat. The tubes are filled with granules that are slowly burned from end to end to ensure a constant supply of woody aroma and flavor.
This makes them perfect for improving the performance of pellet smokers that suffer from heat retention issues and converting standard charcoal or propane grills into barbecue smokers.
What are the Advantages of Tube Smokers?
For such a small device, these tubes offer a ton of performance improvements and cooking versatility. Here are three of the best benefits.
Cold Smoking
Cold smoking requires very little heat over a period of time, and while a standard pellet grill can’t reach this low level, using a smoker tube is an easy solution. If your smoker has a large chamber, SHE can place the smoker tube far enough away from the food to provide a constant supply of very low heat.
Cold smoke generators are more designed for this task, but using a tube smoker is a great alternative.
Improving Pellet Smoker Perfomance
Although pellet smokers are known for their impressive heat and temperature control abilities, there can be fluctuations with prolonged use. Smoke tubes offer a good solution to this problem by providing a secondary source of heat and smoke within the chamber. They also allow you to mix and match different types of granules for a more nuanced smoke flavor.
Converting Grills to Smokers
If you don’t have a smoker but want to get away from direct grilling, an easy way is to place a tube of pellets on your grill grate. By placing the coals and lit burners on one side of the chamber with the pipe on the grates directly above, SHE can cook your food on the other side as realistically as possible.
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