Used 10 briquettes to cure the smoker (36 left in the box and 2 in the stack) and never used it again. Planned to smoke salmon in it but my buddy with the boat had a heart attack and we never went out again. Plus my wife is convinced that smoking meat causes cancer. She wanted me to sell it but I wanted to hang onto it "just in case". Now we're moving to a townhouse and I don't have room for it, so it's gotta go. My loss, your gain.