If you are eating the food right after smoking, you have become "desensitized" to the smoke flavor.... takes a day or 2 to get back to normal..... When I smoke bacon, it doesn't have much smoke.... A month later, when it hits the frying pan, holey kow !!! the house smells like so much smoke it's amazing..... Just a thought... DaveI have the amnps. And it's nice.just don't seem do get enough smoke flavor.
Never heard of charcoal pellets...?