Two years ago, GE gave us an appliance that lets you smoke foods right from the comfort of your kitchen countertop. Problem is, it’s meant to mostly serve as an indoor smoker, which means you’ll have to keep it on the counter along with the air fryer, oven, and all sorts of other appliances. The SmoqeX looks to streamline that kitchen setup.
Like the GE Profile Smoker, this appliance lets you cook food using electric heating elements while burning pellets on an attached chamber to add smoky flavor to your dish. Unlike it, this one is, basically, a multi-purpose air fryer oven, allowing you to do so much more than just smoking using the same appliance.
The SmoqeX has a taller profile than the standard countertop oven, allowing you to cook food at multiple levels. The cooking chamber has a 26-quart capacity, so there’s enough space in there to cook big meals for the whole family, with a small attached section on the side housing the display, capacitive controls, and a pellet tank that’s accessible by opening the top lid. It uses electric heaters to cook food without producing heavy smoke, while two built-in fans circulate the temperature evenly, much like a standard convection oven. As with many modern ovens, it offers precise temperature and time controls, allowing you to cook food exactly the way you like.
For smoking, you can set it to burn a small amount of pellets while you cook, with the same dual fans inside circulating the smoke, so it can flavor all the food you have inside the cooking area. You can set how much smoke it produces from the control panel (it offers six levels), by the way, so you can go lighter or heavier on the smoky flavor, depending on your what you feel like eating for the day, with built-in smoke management minimizing the amount of smoke that escapes out into the kitchen.
The SmoqeX lets you set the timer for low-and-slow cooking up to 12 hours at a time, all while coming with presets for brisket, pork ribs, pork butt, wings, chicken, salmon, cold smoke, and jerky. Simply put, this should help simplify smoking for more inexperienced users. Even better, it’s designed to serve as a multi-purpose oven, so it has multiple functions beyond smoking. Specifically, it lets you choose settings for Grilling, Airfrying, Roasting, Broiling, Baking, Dehydrating, and Reheating, allowing you to use it for a whole host of dishes.
To further make it easier for novice cooks, the appliance comes with a meat probe, so you can precisely monitor the meat you’re cooking inside at any point. Other features include a sealed opening (smoke won’t easily get out), two removable racks with four placement levels, an air frying basket, a removable dip tray for easily getting rid of grease and crumbs, and three heating elements that can reach a combined maximum temperature of 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Aside from the included items, they also offer optional accessories like a grilling plate, a dehydration tray set, and a chicken stand.
A Kickstarter campaign is currently running for SmoqeX. You can reserve a unit for pledges starting at $575.
