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The Bradley Smoker range has proven to be a hit amongst those who enjoy preparing restaurant grade smoked food, the main benefits of the Bradley range compared to standard smokers are their running costs and ease of use, compared to other smokers and grills Bradley smokers generally take less time to maintain after you’ve finished using them.

The smokers can be used for infusing unique flavors into your meat, seafood and vegetables with the use of a variety of wood bisquettes.  Once you have a Bradley set up to cook you’re free to go off and do more important things and then you can come back to enjoy your food, here’s our rundown of the most popular Bradley Smokers out there.

Bradley BTIS1 Original Smoker

Although the BTIS1 isn’t the largest or most technically advanced of the Bradley Smokers it doesn’t seem to matter, the BTIS1 is the most popular in the Bradley smoker range and has four racks inside for smoking your food, the smoker comes with a drip tray and is capable of cooking your food with the use of either hot or cold smoke.  As with all the smokers in the range you can really experiment with the flavor of your foods due to the varieties of wood bisquettes some of which include pecan, hickory and mesquite.

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Bradley BTDS76P 4 Rack Digital Smoker

The Bradley digital smoker range gives you more control over how much smoke and heat is applied to your food during the cooking process, the temperature gauge found on the standard model is replaced with a digital readout and touch pad for controlling its functions.  As with other models in the range you can use the digital smoker with a variety of wood bisquettes, simply set the smoker up for cooking then come back and enjoy.

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Bradley BTDS108P 6 Rack Digital Smoker

The Bradley 6 rack digital smoker has an obvious advantage in that it allows you to smoke larger amounts of food at once, because of this you get more value from the wood bisquettes you decide to use for smoking your food.  The Bradley six rack smoker has many of the same advantages as its four rack counterpart such as a digital display and a touch pad for controlling the smokers functions, as with other smokers in the range the six rack smoker cooks your food slowly and doesn’t require constant monitoring.

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The Bradley 6-rack digital smoker is for those who like to smoke as much food as possible when firing up their machine, if your passionate about smoked food it makes sense to get as much food as possible smoked so you get as much value as you can from your power source and bisquettes.

Whether you want to prepare your own smoked salmon, Boston butt, chicken, lamb or vegetables you’ll find the Bradley smoker is a worthy piece of hardware, at 62 and a half pounds the unit isn’t too difficult to move around and you can put a fair amount of food inside it as it stands at 42 inches high and is 20 inches wide.

The unit does a particularly good job at smoking turkeys as it turns the meat juicy and infuses it with distinct flavors from the bisquettes, try breaking with tradition at Christmas or thanksgiving by smoking your turkey and it’s very likely everyone who tries it will enjoy every last mouthful.

As with other smokers in the Bradley range you simply set your food to cook and come back in a few hours, as you don’t need to watch over the food as its cooking you can spend the time doing whatever you want.  After you have topped up the tube that leads to the bisquette drive guide the smoker automatically loads the bisquettes on as needed, the smoker can be cleaned much more easily than many barbecues and leaves around much less waste.

The smoker has a 500-watt cooking element and can reach temperatures up to 320F and when you’re cooking your food you can use either hot or cold smoke, the inside of the smoker is made of stainless steel while its exterior is composed of powder epoxy steel.  As with other smokers in the range you can really experiment with food as there is a significant variety of wood bisquettes to choose from, mesquite allows you to make sothwest smoked venison while hickory can be used for making smoked Asian ribs.

Like other smokers in the range the six rack should undergo a seasoning process before you cook any food in it, the seasoning process takes about an hour and brings better results than what you would get if you cooked food in it the first time you turn it on.  Seasoning the Bradley digital smoker is an ongoing process and the flavor of food cooked in it improves over time, to get you started the smoker also includes recipes for you try out your culinary skills.

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The Bradley 4 rack digital smoker is another member of the Bradley range capable of infusing your food with special smoky flavors, the smoker is capable of smoking seafood, kebabs, chicken and vegetables and there are an abundance of different wood bisquettes that can be used with it for varying your foods flavor.

You’ll be both surprised and inspired by the fabulous concoctions that can be created with the smoker, the design of the smoker makes the process of cooking food very easy and once you have it all set up ready to smoke your food there’s very little else you need to do.  The smoker allows you to take slow cooking to the extreme so you can go off and do other things while your food undergoes the smoking process, simply set up the smoker and food, go away for a few hours and when you come back the food is cooked and smoked to perfection.

Thankfully you don’t need to be on hand to add wood bisquettes to the smoker as you can add plenty of these to the tube that leads to their drive guide, the interface for controlling the functions of the grill is a touch pad that includes a digital display.  From the touch pad you control functions on the smoker such as the cooking time, the cooking temperature and you can use it to turn the smoker on or off.  The display also tells you at a glance the temperature of the Bradley smoker and how much time is left remaining before your food is cooked.

As with other smokers in the range it is recommended that you put the Bradley digital smoker through an initial seasoning process, the initial seasoning process takes about an hour and is to ensure that you get the best flavor from the food you cook in the smoker after it has been used for the first time.  You can cook food with the smoker with the use of either hot or cold smoke and the racks included have the capacity to hold a significant amount of food, the smoker has a 500-watt cooking element that runs on electricity and its interior is composed of stainless steel.

If you’re all thumbs with barbecuing food and don’t like to spend a lot time watching over it while its being cooked the digital smoker offers a great alternative, there are plenty of varieties of bisquettes to choose from for smoking your food and these include, hickory, maple, mesquite and pecan to name a few.  There are also a number of accessories that you can get for the smoker in order to get the most from it such as a Bradley cooking DVD full of recipes, a digital thermometer with a meat probe and jerky racks.

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The Bradley BTIS1 original smoker enables cooks and chefs to infuse foods such as vegetables, fish, meat and cheese with unique flavors, the flavor of your food is determined by what variety of bisquette you decide to use with the smoker.  The Bradley range has become very popular amongst people who enjoy smoking their food and the original smoker is still a very popular choice, the smoker is very easy to operate and has four racks enabling you to smoke a fair amount of food all at once.

If you’ve never tried smoking food in this fashion you should be in for a pleasant surprise, during times when you’re feeling lazy and don’t want to check on the food you’re cooking you’ll definitely appreciate the smoker as it takes less time and effort to set up than many types of barbecue or grill.  You can marinade your food prior to smoking it if you want to add your own special flavor, when it’s ready place it in the smoker and then come back in a few hours and it’s ready to eat.

The BTIS1 Bradley Smoker has a 500-watt heating element and can reach temperatures up to 320 degrees Fahrenheit, the smoker also has a thermometer for monitoring its temperature and this is built into the door so you can check it at a glance.  You can leave the BTIS1 running for up to eight hours without having to tend to it and it is capable of producing either hot or cold smoke, the smoker box is quite light at 40lbs so you can move it around when necessary without too much effort.

Initially before cooking food in the smoker Bradley recommend that you put it through a seasoning process, this is so you get the best results and flavor when cooking food with it for the first time.  Due to the smokers design there’s very little for you to monitor during the cooking process, you can load multiple wood bisquettes into the smoker and it will automatically position each one over its bisquette burner every twenty minutes.

Smoked venison, maple glazed ham and oak smoked salmon are just a fraction of culinary extravagances you can expect to make in the smoker, if you like experimenting with smoky flavors you’ll appreciate the fact that there are at least 8 varieties of wood bisquette you can use with it, some of the bisquette varieties you can use for smoking your food include maple, hickory, mesquite and pecan.

To get you up and running the smoker includes a user guide and a recipe booklet for you to test your culinary skills, the BTIS1 has a switch positioned at the front for setting its cooking temperature and a button for advancing the bisquettes, once you have the Bradley up and running all you really need to do is resist opening its door when you get a waft of your foods aroma.

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