As discussed above with an electric smoker you have to add either wood chips or pellets into the base of the smoker to actually get a smoky flavour into your food.
Electric smoker wood chips or pellets.
Some woods such as many fruit woods produce a mild muted flavor.
Both smoking tools are great offer a naturally smoky flavor and are relatively inexpensive to purchase.
If you have an electric smoker just throw them in the tray.
Rather than providing an even smoking flavor as wood pellets do wood chips provide bursts of its natural smoke flavors.
If not use some aluminum tin foil wrap it around either the chips or pellets prick some hole into it and let it smoke.
With a true pellet smoker on the other hand as all of the heat is coming from burning bbq wood pellets you will typically get a more intense smoky flavour from a pellet smoker.
But there are a handful of differences between the two tools that any smoker worth the name needs to be aware of.