"Scooter" > wrote:
>I keep seeing this stovetop smoker thing on the cooking shows:
>
> http://www.cameronsmoker.com/Stovetop%20Smoker.aspx
>
> Do you have one? Does it work? Love it? Hate it? Worth the US$50?

I've got one of these, and I've had it for about 15 years. I originally got
it to smoke fish in it, but I haven't done that in years. Now I use it
mostly for smoking chicken breasts which I have marinated in a lemon mustard
marinade. If I do it right, I can then take the "drippings" and make a sauce
out of those.

I always like the inner pan below the grid with aluminum foil to make clean
up easier. The smoker can tend to leak smoke, and there are some
instructions for bending the lid back to try and minimize this. But having
an exhaust fan is still a good idea, especially if you have smoke detectors
in the area that tend to go off.

Overall, I probably wouldn't get it again, as I don't use it enough. But
part of the reason I don't use it so much is because I forget I even have it
(it's stored in a pantry closet). I think I have too much cooking equipment
for my own good.

One caution with it is it gets pretty hot on the bottom and can discolor the
stove top because it is much larger than a burner. The discoloration of the
stove top in my case is because of abuse of the stove top by a prior owner
of the house. Never use steel wool or such on porcelain enamel. It will
scratch, and then the scratches will fill up with grease. The grease will be
invisible until it is overheated, turning it brown. Then every little
scratch in the stove top becomes visible.

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