American Made Grills Alturi Stainless Steel Smoker Tray

Which grills does the SSMK-ALT smoker tray fit?

It is made for Alturi Series grills from American Made Grills. Check the series designation on your grill before ordering, since the tray is sized to sit below an Alturi cooking grate.

Where does the tray sit inside the grill?

Below the cooking grate, where the burner heats it directly. That placement is the whole point of the design: heat reaches the wood through the stainless body and smolders it rather than letting it catch and flame off.

Can I load it with pellets instead of wood chips?

Either one works. Pellets last longer per fill and do not need soaking, which makes them the easier choice on a long cook; chips behave the same way in the tray, they just need refilling sooner.

Which woods pair with which meats?

Hickory and oak for beef, apple and cherry for pork and poultry, and mesquite when you want the smoke loud. Nothing about loading the tray changes with the wood you choose.

Why use a tray instead of wrapping chips in foil?

Contact and containment, which a foil pouch gives you neither of. The stainless walls conduct burner heat straight into the wood and keep oxygen low enough that it smokes instead of burning, so you get twenty or thirty minutes of steady smoke rather than a short flare and then nothing.

Stainless also means it goes back in dirty and comes out clean, season after season, with no pouch to rebuild before each cook.