Cold Smoking without a cold smoke adapter

[zueth]

I want to cold smoke some steaks and haven't purchased the cold smoke adapter and don't feel like building one just yet.

Can I just put ice cubes in the bowl will that be sufficient?

What is the ideal temp? what is too high?

[beefmann]

zeuth, yes you  can put ice cubes in the water  bowl and cold smoke that  way, Generally i do not use ice, I turn on the smoke generator, run it for a 3 hour  smoke .. then start the cooking process and comes out quite well, im sure others will chime in on this as well.

[zueth]

I was also thinking that I could put a disposable tray on the bottom and fill up with ice?

what are everybody's thoughts?

[Quarlow]

Zueth it will work. whatever it takes to keep the temps below 95 degrees. That is the max I would go for temp. And if you find the temp going up just open the door for a minute or two. You can make a real quick cold smoker with just a card board box and piece of dryer pipe.

[GusRobin]

I've filled up the water bowl with ice water, and added a pan of ice on the lowest rack. If it still gets too warm you can open the door to bring down the temp.

[zueth]

I put in a pan of ice water and it never got above 75, worked good, thanks for the input.