Here are some important updates as of March 24, 2020:

• Customer service. Many of our team members have been set up to work from home, helping support the efforts to stem the spread of the virus.  We are maintaining customer service hours from 8:30a.m. to 3:30p.m. PST, Monday through Friday. You may experience slightly longer delays than usual, but we will attend to every enquiry as soon as possible. 
• E-commerce.  Due to many retail closures, we have have launched a new e-commerce website, allowing customers to order products directly from our warehouses.  These warehouses are large, and as an additional safeguard our warehouse staff members are adhering to social distancing and hand washing practices established by local health authorities. 
• Communication:  We have added an online chat feature within our website for customers looking for assistance and/or technical support.  We have also established a Facebook Messenger chat, which can be utilized via our Bradley Smoker Facebook page. These services will be monitored and maintained by internal and external customer service and technical support staff. Our 1-800 number has been automated, with options established to direct your calls to the most appropriate departments. 
• Safe product delivery. We have installed measures to ensure that products ordered online are delivered safely to your home. For most customers, this allows you to retrieve your items without having to interact with anyone directly. According to experts at the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control, the risk of infection from a package is “incredibly low”, and we are taking additional measures to ensure that our products are clean and handled with extreme care. 
• Staff members. We have established a working system that allows our team members to take your calls or answer emails and chats from home, helping contribute to our community’s efforts to stem the spread of the virus. While they may have limited ability to handle warranty and parts requests we will be attending to all requests as quickly as we are able.  

While we’re adjusting to these disruptions, we continue to be dedicated to serving our customers with minimal interruption. We will be posting updates to this page as things develop and deeply thank you for your support and patience. 

Wade Bradley

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A Perfect Combination of Herbs and Maple Wood

The Hunter’s Blend Bisquettes combine popular maple wood with rosemary, thyme and black pepper. As a result, you get a warm woodsy essence and aroma.

A combination of chili, cumin and maple wood! Chili Cumin Bisquettes is the choice to add more than enough flavour and heat to your smoked meals.

On the other hand, the Ginger Sesame Bisquettes pack a bold kick. It consists of a strong earthy mix of mesquite wood, ginger, and sesame.

Finally, the Caribbean Blend Bisquettes use mesquite wood and allspice, with a flavour palette similar to cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and pepper.

These four new Premium Bisquette flavours, as well as the Beer and Sage Bisquettes, are now available in 24-Packs or 48-Packs, for $12.99 and $24.99, respectively.

The Art of Smoking Food Without Any Hassle

Smoking food year-round is a growing trend. “The majority of grill owners (63%) enjoy using their grill or smoker year-round”.

They do that to improve flavour, for personal enjoyment and for entertaining family and friends (Rockbridge Associates Inc., 2015). As the weather begins to warm up, bring a new twist to your food! Try and smoke your meals with these Premium Bisquette flavours.

Bradley Smoker® has been perfecting the art of smoking foods for three decades. The automated wood dispensing system helps you to achieve the perfect smoke, stress free, every time. As a result, you can create delicious smoked food, without standing around outside for hours tending to it.

Now, with Bradley Premium Bisquettes, along with the original 12 types of hardwood bisquettes, you can achieve the perfect smoky taste with the additional flavour of herbs.

About Bradley Smoker®

Bradley Smoker® is a North American brand that specializes in premium meat and food smoking products. These include electric smokers, grills, wood bisquettes, cures, and smoking accessories. Whether you’re a foodie, a sportsman, an outdoors type or a chef, food smoking is a great way to enhance the flavour of homemade food and add that extra special taste.

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Combining maple wood with hops, the Premium Beer Bisquettes are perfect for beef,chicken, ribs, sausage, burgers and cheese. And for anything else you can think of.

A Combination of Wood and Sage

Premium Sage Bisquettes also contain maple wood with sage. As a result, lamb, pork, poultry and cured meats get exquisite flavours. Sage Bisquettes will give a new twist to a holiday feast. Even a hearty Winter stew becomes unique with smoked meat and vegetables.

Premium Sage Bisquettes will be available in 24-packs or 48-packs, for $12.99 and $24.99, respectively.

Smoking Food Year-round Made Easier

Smoking food year-round is a growing trend. “The majority of grill owners (63%) enjoy using their grill or smoker year-round”. They do it to improve flavour, for personal enjoyment and for entertaining family and friends (Rockbridge Associates Inc., 2015).

During the upcoming Fall season, surprise your family and friends with a smoky spin on the classics, using these new Bradley Premium Bisquettes.

Bradley Smoker® has been perfecting the art of smoking foods for three decades. The automated wood dispensing system helps you achieve the perfect smoke, stress free, every time.

Perfectly Smoked Food with a Special Taste

Using an automatic smoker means you can create delicious smoked food, without standing around outside for hours tending to it. Besides, with Bradley Premium Bisquettes, along with the original 12 types of hardwood bisquettes, you can achieve the perfect smoky taste with the additional flavour of herbs.

About Bradley Smoker®

Bradley Smoker® is a North American brand that specializes in premium meat and food smoking products. These include electric smokers, grills, wood bisquettes, cures, and smoking accessories. Whether you’re a foodie, a sportsman, an outdoors type, or a chef, food smoking is a great way to enhance the flavour of homemade food. And with that extra special taste.

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Lisa Readie Mayer gives us an overview of the Canadian Barbecue Industry. Despite, or because of the country’s economic turmoil, interest in barbecuing remains high and is stoking sales.

If you’ve read the financial pages in the past year, you’ve likely seen some dire headlines about the Canadian economy:

“It’s Official: Canada is in a Recession” – Business Insider; 

“Canada’s Economic Outlook Downgraded” – The Canadian Press;

“Service Exports a Bright Spot Amid General Economic Gloom” – Bloomberg). Fortunately, the news has been looking brighter lately…

Read more of the article here.

Canadian ‘Que – Hearth & Home 

September 21, 2016 

by Lisa Readie Mayer 

Lisa Readie Mayer gives us an overview of the Canadian Barbecue Industry. Despite (or because) of the country’s economic turmoil, interest in barbecuing remains high and is stoking sales.

Moreover, if you’ve read the financial pages in the past year, you’ve likely seen some fearful headlines about the Canadian economy:

“It’s Official: Canada is in a Recession” – Business Insider; 

“Canada’s Economic Outlook Downgraded” – The Canadian Press;

“Service Exports a Bright Spot Amid General Economic Gloom” – Bloomberg). Fortunately, the news has been looking brighter lately…

Read more of the article here.

Canadian ‘Que – Hearth & Home 

September 21, 2016 

by Lisa Readie Mayer 

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The Bradley Smart Smoker is the new automatic, electric food smoker from Bradley Smoker®. It features innovative iSmoke Technology, that allows you to connect with and control the smoker from Bluetooth-enabled smartphones in real-time. This real-time control is the result of years of advancement and testing on existing smokers.

Real-time Control for the Best Tasting Smoked Food

The idea for this smoker came from our pursue for a consistent way to provide the best tasting smoked food. By controlling every detail of the process of food smoking, it’s possible to get delicious, consistent results, without a lot of hassle. 

Wade Bradley, owner of Bradley Smoker® shares the key to food smoking that he learned many years ago. “The secret to food smoking is you must control the smoke and heat, plain and simple”.

The best smoked flavour comes from cooking low ‘n slow, and with real-time control over temperature and smoke. You can relax or prepare the rest of your meal, without manually adjusting the smoker or adding wood all the time.

An Automatic Electric System for a Cleaner and Consistent Smoking

All Bradley smokers feature the innovative automatic feed system. A hinged burner drops smouldering wood bisquettes into a bowl of water, at regular intervals. As a result, it extinguishes the wood when it turns to ash. Consequently, the smoke burns cleaner, providing great smoked flavour and the best tasting food possible. In addition, two separate heating elements allow to continue cooking food in the smoker, even once the smoke has been shut off.

Ten Racks of Food with Advanced Monitoring System  

You can control settings from a user-friendly new touch screen on the front of the smoker, or from a smartphone with Bluetooth®. Settings display in real-time, so you’ll be able to bring out food at just the right moment and not overcook it. Another improvement is its larger capacity smokehouse, with room for 10 racks of food. Two removable, color-coded temperature probes allow you measure heat in different areas of the smokehouse simultaneously, for advanced monitoring.

Expertise and Technical Innovation 

For 30 years, Bradley Smokers have been known as easy-to-use electric smokers that deliver consistent results. “You can think of it as smoking goes high-tech” says Steven Raichlen, author of The Barbecue Bible and the new Project Smoke. He is also the host of Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke, on Public Television.

Many cultures and cuisines from around the world have been smoking foods for hundreds of years. While people originally used it as a way to preserve and keep food without refrigeration, it has become popular again. The same happened with other homegrown methods, like pickling and fermenting foods. 

From Meat and Seafood to Cheese and Desserts, You Can Smoke Almost Any Kind of Food 

It’s possible to smoke a variety of foods, from meat and seafood to more unusual items like cheese, vegetables and desserts. This cooking technique isn’t one to be rushed, and lends itself to relaxed, casual gatherings of family and friends. It’s the essence of slow food, taking the time to share a homemade meal with those around to you.

About Bradley Smoker®

Bradley Smoker® is the premium brand of automatic electric food smokers in North America. You can find them in major retailers across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. You can also find them in the kitchens of gourmet chefs, barbecue fanatics, and do-it-yourself home cooks.

Bradley Smoker is a North American company that specializes in meat and food smoking products. These include electric smokers, grills, wood bisquettes, cures and smoking accessories. Whether you’re a foodie, a sportsman, an outdoors type or a chef, food smoking is a great way to enhance the flavour of homemade food and add that extra special taste.

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The Bradley Smoker Cookbook takes the art of smoking, a process that can be intimidating to the beginner, and demonstrates just how accessible it truly is.

With more than a hundred pages, the book features original photographs and recipes for soups, vegetable dishes, salads, wild game, fruit, clams and numerous other dishes. 

And the best news is that these recipes are from five of Bradley pro staff. In addition, there are even some ingredients that you wouldn’t typically associate with smoking.

From appetizers to desserts, The Bradley Smoker Cookbook features recipes that anyone can duplicate with their own smoker.

You can Pre Order it now at

https://www.north-america.bradleysmoker.com/product/bradley-smoker-cookbook/

Recipes include:

• Smoked Tuna and Avocado Salad
•  Smoked Sweet Chili Nuts
•  Elk Summer Sausage
•  Smoked Sea Salt Caramels
•  Cajun Smoked Catfish and many more!

Also Tips and Tricks on Food Smoking

On the top of that, you will find tips and tricks on food smoking in general, and the Bradley Smoker Bisquette Flavor Guide.

Whether you’re a veteran who is looking to get creative with your smoker, or a novice who is looking for new ways to enjoy your kitchen – this book is for you!

About the Bradley Pro Staffers

Lena Clayton is the co-owner of a full-service restaurant and catering business Cravings Restaurant + Lounge. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada.

A recipe developer, Steve Cylka is also a food photographer, and the author of “The Black Peppercorn”, a website featuring original recipes. He won the Courvoisier Collective Culinary Masterpieces Competition in 2012. Steve lives in Toronto, Ontario, in Canada.

Kathleen Donegan is the founder and chief writer at the blog “The Philly Foodist”, which celebrates local, seasonal, and humanely raised food. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

For the past 25 years, Brad Lockwood has been a commercial meat processor, as well as the past president of the PA Meat Processors Association. He is the current host of “Love of the Hunt TV”. Brad lives in Brookville, Pennsylvania.

Professional editor, writer and photographer in the outdoor sporting industry sporting, Jennifer L. S. Pearsall is also the publisher of the popular blog TheBaconAffairs.com. Pearsall. She resides in Waupaca, Wisconsin.

ISBN: 978-1-63220-715-9
Price: $19.99 USD / $23.99 CAD

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Being my first blog for Bradley, I had planned to put together an epic recipe or some form of “how to” which would make life in the kitchen easier. However, sometimes the universe has different plans for us.

So instead, for my first blog I’m going to talk about my Mom. Not in the specific sense, although she was a fascinating woman and I’m not certain others would share my enthusiasm on the topic. But on how she indirectly made me realize something last night that I hadn’t really considered previously: Sometimes it’s bigger than the food.

A Passion for Cooking

We lost my mom back in 2004, long before she had ample time to teach me ‘everything she knew about cooking. But beyond the techniques and recipes I did manage to learn, she taught me about passion.

She demonstrated how food can be a personal expression, send a message, or simply allow you to give a piece of yourself to those you are cooking. Likewise an artist would express him/herself on canvas, we who love to cook do it through food.

I recall a conversation I had with her (in the kitchen of course) during the preparation of some holiday meal in the past. It began with an offhand comment something like “Why can’t I get my potatoes to taste like yours?”

One Secret Ingredient

She looked at me with a mischievous glint in her eye and replied “Because you are just making them for you and aren’t using my secret ingredient.”

Puzzled, I looked at her and said “I make them exactly the same way you do! What secret ingredient’ are you talking about?”. She returned to her gaze to whatever task was in front of her on the counter, and with a small smile she gave a one word reply; “Love”.

OK, OK, enough walking down memory lane.You may be wondering how any of this ties into the blog. What happened last night that led to my scrapping of the blog I’d written, and putting this one in its’ stead.

That’s where the Universe comes in

My wife Chantelle and I were unpacking our final Christmas decorations, while our girls were running around the house being kids. They were all excited rediscovering all of the forgotten treasures not seen since last year. Then, Chantelle looked at me and, after a heavy pause, said: “I wish we could make a Christmas dinner exactly like the ones your mom used to make for our girls” .

I briefly flashed back to those multi-course, extravagant, “wear your stretchy pants” celebrations of all things edible that mom would put together. So, I replied: “We can!”

A Treasure of Old Cookbooks and Handwritten Recipes

You see, I had all of my mom’s cookbooks tucked away. Not only the ‘Better Living’ or ‘Women’s Day’ genre books, but also the “Good enough to cut out” and “Important enough to be hand written” stacks of homemade notebooks.

Still in the box in which they’d rested all those years since we’d cleaned out her house! To be honest, I’d never used them. Maybe because I’d never needed them, as the internet makes finding recipes all too easy. Or because I thought they may make me melancholy.

Nevertheless, with a mission of a “mom’s Christmas dinner” on the roster, out came the books. In those books I found not only the recipes for onion-sage dressing and Parmesan green beans I was looking for, but I also saw the evidence of Mom’s ‘secret ingredient’ all through those books.

Sometimes, it’s Really More than Just Food

Hand written notes, additions and modifications were throughout, and I found myself thumbing through pages and pages. Pieces of her that made each of those dishes what they were.

That’s when it dawned on me! We all take pride in serving the best we can to our friends and loved ones. However, what I didn’t realize is that when we put our passion, our attention to detail, and our own ‘secret ingredient’ on those plates, we are providing more than food for the body.

Sometimes, it’s bigger than just the food. It’s a way of taking care of our loved ones, a way of showing that they are so important to us that we want to give them our best. Sometimes it’s just a simple “I love you”.

The Universe Part 2

Thirteen days before Christmas, and I was again looking through those books to take a photograph for this blog.

Among the dozens of newspaper-clipped recipes, there was apparently something that I’d missed. When I opened the cover of one book, there was a single loose piece of newsprint.

Thinking it was another recipe, I flipped it over to read it. It wasn’t another recipe, but an old clipping by an unknown author, from some unknown paper. However, the fact that my mom had saved it in her cookbook tells me that I missed another way that it’s bigger than the food: the time we share in the kitchen.

You know,I think I’ll cook with my girls tonight. Little do they know that unbeknownst to them, regardless of what they learn, I’ll be taking far more from it than they will.

Merry Christmas all.

Ryan Shervill
Writer & Editor
www.RyanShervill.com

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After listening to our loyal customers feedback, we found that a cart where you can put your smoker onto, and store the Bradley Bisquettes or other cooking instruments on the bottom, would be a great addition to our product line.

The Bradley Smoker Cart:

– A versatile side cart or kitchen island
– Sturdy steel frame with wooden top
– Towel bar on one end
– Rolls easily so you can move it as desired
– Two wheel lock for safety and stability
– Easy to clean

– Opens and folds in seconds

The Bradley Smoker Cart will be available very soon, stay tuned!

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I was a pastor for 15 years and a couple years ago we decided to make a change. My wife went back to teaching and I started the food blog and recipe development full time.

We live in Toronto and have 3 kids. We live a happy life, filled with hockey, football, dance classes, piano and drum lessons. In between those, we strive to sit around the table for some meaningful family time, while we eat some tasty food, that was probably smoked!

The Most Embarrassing Food/Cook Story

Wow – I have a few! There was one time that we had a bunch of people over for dinner and I was grilling some ribs (before I owned a Bradley!). I set them up on the side of the grill for indirect grilling, or so I thought I had. When I went back, the ribs were completely charred and totally inedible. The meal quickly turned into a vegetarian dinner.

So you have this great blog. Tell us how and why you started this

I have loved to cook for years and I always enjoy creating new recipes. There were friends and family members who asked for my recipes, so I decided to start a blog and post up the recipes.

It was just a hobby back then and the photos of the food were atrocious. Ha ha. But, over time, I fell in love with blogging about food and sharing my creations with the readers. It has been great to see it develop and the readership grow. Besides, I love developing partnerships with companies like Bradley Smokers.

The Goal for the Blog

I remembered when I first got into smoking, I spent a lot of time looking all over the web for tips, spice rub and marinade recipes, smoking temperatures, times and more. There is a lot of information out there and sometimes it can even seem overwhelming for people new to smoking.

A Resource Centre to Provide Information for the New Smoker

I want this blog to be a resource centre providing lots of information for the new smoker. Along with that, there are many veteran smokers out there who have lots of experience and I hope that this blog is relevant for them as well. Modernist cooking is changing the way we prepare food and even smoking is evolving. I want to explore how we can integrate smoking into foods that we might not traditionally think to smoke. It should be fun!

A Passion for Food 

When I was young, my family went on vacation to New Orleans and Biloxi. On that trip I had so many new food experiences, things like oysters, crawfish, gumbo, jambalaya and other Cajun/Creole dishes.

I remember once we were home, there were times that my dad would be in the kitchen, cooking some of those dishes I ate on the trip. I never cared much before, but after our vacation, I found myself looking over his shoulder more frequently learning how to make some of those memorable dishes.

A Special Passion for Food Smoking

I think that it is the combination of the flavours and the tenderness of the meat. Smoking imparts a wonderful flavour into the meat that is complemented with spice rubs and various BBQ sauces. Along with the flavour, smoking is often done at low temperatures and over a long period of time, which results in tender, fall off the bone meat. I also love how smoke can add a new flavour profile to a dish. I remember the first time I smoked some tomatoes to make creamy tomato soup – the smoke flavour totally transformed that soup. It was so delicious!

The Favorite Thing to Smoke

Pork! That is probably broader than you were asking, but it is hard for me to narrow it down more than that. I love to smoke pretty much anything pork including ribs, pork butt (pulled pork – oh yeah!), tenderloin and even ground pork for some tasty smoked fatties. A close second is salmon. Jalapeno poppers are great as well. Oh, yeah, chicken wings too. Okay, I think I should stop now.

Why Bradley Smokers

I love the Bradley Smoker for their ease of use. They truly have a ‘set it and ‘forget it’ functionality which is outstanding for low and slow cooking.

I smoke lots of pork butts and brisket that require hours and hours of smoking. It is amazing that, with the Bradley, I can set the temperature, fill the smoker tower with lots of wood bisquettes and they advance automatically. I do this all the time for long overnight smoking. I can go to sleep with total assurance that the Bradley Smoker is working away, keeping the temperature steady and smoke flowing. On top of the ease of use, I am really impressed that the Bradley Smoker is able to produce consistently great results each time, from everything including meat, fish, cheese, nuts and more!

A message to get across to all those food smoke fanatics out there

Keep smoking! Smoking is continuing to grow all over the world and units like Bradley Smokers make it more accessible than ever!

Visit my website : www.theblackpeppercorn.com

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