Will placing a tube of smoldering pellets in your cooking chamber add more smoke flavor to your food? Sure! Is it going to be a smoke flavor you're going to be happy with? Maybe, maybe not.

The thing with pellet smoking tubes is the type of smoke that they produce is not to everyone's taste. Trying to explain that with words is obviously very hard to do, and also because everyone's personal preferences are different...

Unlike the fire in the pellet burn pot, which can be managed with the introduction of new fuel and air, a pellet smoking tube once lit is completely unregulated. As such, the smoke produced may come across as acrid to some.

Then again, a pellet smoking tube is a cheap option to test for yourself, and only after testing it will you be able to determine if you actually like the quality of smoke it will produce.