So, I just remembered that I have one of those electric charcoal starter deals. Someone gave it to me a long time ago and I never used it. Well, I'm using it now in my free electric smoker. It burns wood and makes smoke, with a temp at the top grate at 120* steady. I may have a good cold-smoker when it gets cooler outside. It's about 88* degrees out right now, (thank god it finally rained last night and cooled off a bit, this 100+ ******** might be fun for some of you southern boys, but not for my Nebraska ass). Amazon was out of stock of the cheap hotplate, but now I think I want to smoke some cheese.