Napoleon Prestige Pro Question

Hi everyone - I recently purchased a Prestige Pro 665.
Theres a lot I am enjoying about the grill.

One thing I am struggling with i show to use the integrated smoker drawer - and I am wondering if there are any Prestige Pro owners out there who have success with it?

I fully understand this is not real smoking. But on my Weber gas grill I have had good success adding some flavor by using smoker boxes with wood chips, and I would like to continue this with the Napoleon.

I can just user smoker boxes like I always have, but I like the idea of trying to get the integrated tray to work. However, no matter what I try (Napoleon recommends soaking chips which I have...) even on the lowest burner setting the chips are catching fire and burning up very quickly - as opposed to lasting for 45 mins -1 hr of light smoke, which is what Napoleon says should be happening.

Would love any thoughts, thanks!

Dweverett said:

How long are you soaking the chips?

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Hi thanks for the reply.
I have tried everything from not soaking at all, to soaking for an hour to soaking for about 2.5 hours.
I am reluctant to soak for too long as a lot of the advice I have read suggests that it will only create smoldering smoke/steam, not real wood chip smoke...

its basically a pull out drawer that you load with chips and then slide bac into the front of the grill alongside the burner tubes. It then has its own dedicated burner right under the drawer to heat it - I try turning it on temporarily and then once it starts to smoke, turning off the dedicated burner, but it catches fire quickly (or if I turn off the burner earlier, doesnt get hot enough to smoke the chips)

thank you both for these responses.
I do agree that the design seems to be pretty lacking.
I have tried to follow the Napoleon video instructions of turning off as soon as the smoke starts - not always easy to tell, and often either stops smoking right then, or catches fire!
I will try the pellets...and welcome any other advice. Thanks all.