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Bradley Digital 6-Rack Smoker |  | Brand: Bradley
Category: Lawn & Patio
Department: MENS WATCHES
List Price: $599.00
Buy New: $469.90
as of 7/30/2010 13:26 CDT details
You Save: $129.10 (22%)
New (27) Refurbished (1) from $549.99
Seller: ADVENTURER'S BAG
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 6255
Country: USA
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 63
Dimensions (in): 18 x 20 x 42
Warranty: Full US Warranty by Bradley Technologies
MPN: BTDS108P
Model: BTDS108P
UPC: 689796990223
EAN: 0689796990223
ASIN: B000FK09EW
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Full Digital Control | | • | 6 Cooking Racks | | • | 8 hours of controlled cool smoke | | • | Cooks meat, chicken, pork and fish | | • | 9 different flavors of hardwoods |
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Product Description
Ah, savor the flavor of the great outdoors... it's a snap with this Bradley 6 - Rack Digital Smoker! The new 6-rack Digital Smoker gives you the advanced features of digital technology. Temperature, time, and smoke are now completely controllable so you can decide how much smoke you want, how long your food is going to be smoked for, and at what temperature. This baby is perfect for entertaining, creating gourmet foods in your own home, or just your enjoying flavor that smoking brings all for yourself! Trust my "taste-bud-testing", friend, the new Bradley Digital Smoker offers an easier and better way to automatically roast, smoke and barbecue in the outdoors... Smoking hot features! Powder epoxy steel exterior, polished stainless steel interior; Internal cooking volume: 3,432 cu. in.; Internal heater: 500 watt cooking element and 125 watt smoking element; Power specifications: 120 volt-60 Hz, 5.5 Amps; Maximum temperature is controllable up to 320 degrees F; Digital controls for temperature, time and smoke; 6 adjustable wire racks are included; Comes with user guide, recipe booklet, rectangular tray and drip bowl; Measures 20"w. x 18"d. x 42"h; weighs 62 1/2 lbs ETL and CE listed; 1-yr. limited warranty; Bisquettes and extra racks not included... order bisquettes and other supplies separately below. Order yours today! AVAILABLE SEPARATELY: Bradley 120-Pk. Flavored Bisquettes Bradley 60-Pk. Flavored Bisquettes Bradley 4 Jerky Racks Bradley 4 Jerky Racks, Teflon coat
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 12
 Works great every time ! July 27, 2010
Jeff N. Olsen (Atlanta)
Prev I had a charcoal smoker -- my results were always random -- with this unit --- perfect outcome every time -- and you can completely leave unit unattended -- mingle with your party/guests -- return at projected completion time -- and great results! I highly recommend this prdct
 Bradley Smoker Customer Service Helpful July 22, 2010
David S. Olsten
Had a problem with the unit not getting hot enough. One call to Bradley's customer service and I had a replacement heating element in a matter of days. Now that's what I call customer service! Also got their cold-smoke box accessory...that works great! I do wish they could correct the biscuits to load all the time. Sometimes they don't slide in on their own.
Great smoker July 6, 2010
Amazon Addict
I did a lot of research and this is the best deal. I am so glad I got the 6 rack versus the 4 rack...it is worth the investment. Very easy to use, just set and go. Make sure you buy a lot of pellets, I got the starter variety pack, but realized that it takes a lot more pellets, so I had to get the large box. Great instructions, still working on recipes for the perfect ribs, but this smoker was a great investment...was my hubby's Christmas present.
 Good for the price range, but don't expect perfection June 1, 2010
John S. Brandte (Deerfield, NH United States)
We just bought and used the Bradley Digital 6-Rack Smoker. Operation is really easy and straight forward. Seasoning takes a little over an hour. We smoked three packs of pork butt (6 pieces) plus some poppers. Overall, I would probably buy this again, but I am not really enamored with its performance.
The wood puck feeder works well. It did get a little jammed once, but it was easy to fix. You just need to keep everything clean and in line. The controls are very easy to use. If you are doing pork butts, you probably can't use all the racks.
The down side is the temperature. The 500 watt heating element seems a little under powered for the big box and the smoker itself took hours and hours to come up to temperature (I am sure so much meat played a part). Additionally, for over 12 hours, we had a significant discrepancy between the Bradley temp readings and our separate dual probe thermometer.
Bottom line, the result was good, but next time we will start the smoking before bed two days earlier to give plenty of time to get the pork butt to 190 degrees. I will add that this is MUCH easier than the hardwood charcoal units as you you don't have to tend it all day, smell like smoke when you are done and you can even leave it to go to church!
 Disappointed customer / Poor Smoker Performance May 18, 2010
F. G. Orr (Vancouver, Canada)
I was really excited to get this product and spent over a year trying to get it to work. After a year and a bunch of research I came to the conclusion that the product is crap. You are welcome to do your own research but I think what you will find is that this product is very easy to use. However, the ease of use comes at the cost of a smoker that does an unsatisfactory job of actually smoking. As you know the key to good smoking is maintaing conistant heat and the Bradley is simply not designed to do this.
My list of issues are as follows:
1) The six rack smoker has the same heating element as the four rack smoker. So while it is significanlty larger it has no more power than the smaller model. I believe its heating element is only like 500 watts and I believe my wifes hair dryer has more power than that.
2) The heating element in the smoker is way underpowered for the six rack unit (and I suspect the four rack one as well). It takes over an hour to heat up to 200 degrees and then drops way down when you open it up to put the food in and takes well in excess of another hour to get back up to tempeture. It was so under powered that I would just leave the unit set at its highest setting, like 300 degrees, and I do not think I ever got the unit up past 250 degrees. Since it was so underpowered it took very long cook so that towards the end of my use with it, after the smoke had set, I would take the food out and put it on the gas barbque at 250 degrees to finish off.
3) Owing to the design every time you have to open the unit to check on the food you loss all of the heat (i.e. there is no effective heat sink) which then takes for ever heat up. Think about it, to service the unit you have to open the door competely allows all the heat to escape.
4) the design of the heating element creates hot spots along the back of unit and it is significanly hotter at the bottom than it is at the top. Bradley themselves recommend rotating the racks front to back and top to bottom to get an even cooking. This means you need to open the door which allows all the heat to escape.
5) the digital thermostat is located just above the heating element so it reads high. The spread between the tempeture reading on the digital unit and one taken manually from the top of the unit is like 30 degrees.
6) the digital thermostat has like a 20 degree varience between starting and stoping when it is at tempature. Do research, I read that people recommend buying the orginal and an after market digital thermostat which is far superiour and overall cheaper than buying the digital Bradley.
7) An electric smoker will not give you a smoke ring. The smoke ring comes from a chemical reaction related to the carbon burning off from charcol or wood. The smoke ring is a sign of good smoked food.
My reasoning for giving it 2 stars is because the smoke generator works wonderfully well.
The cons in my humble opinion so far out weight the pro's that a cheap guy like me gave the Bradley away. Spending almost $500 on a smoker to dump it becasue it does not do a good job hurts, expecially when all of the issues that I listed above are well documented on the net and I failed to do the detailed research before hand.
Rather than trying to modify the Bradley to try to get it to work I decided to buy a Weber Smokey Mountain. While WSM is lacking the electronics it is wonderful to use. It maintins the heat like an oven, I actually cannot believe how fast it heats up and how long it will maintain a constant tempeture without any adjustment. There is lots of support for the WSM on the internet and I really do not see it being any harder to use. Personally, I also like the idea of cooking with charcoal, it just adds to the mistique of smoking food and impresses the neighbors.
This product in my mind is just a gimmick which produces an unsatisfactory product. Please, do yourselves a favour and read the Bradley sites on the net and you will see all of the issue I mention above are documented and the modifications people are doing to deal with heat and tempeture issues. Knowledge is power.
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