Most smokers are built by appliance manufacturers. This one was built by furniture makers. The Master Smoker Hinoki is carved from premium, knot-free Kiso hinoki — the same wood used in Japan's finest furniture, shrine architecture, and traditional baths — and it's made through an unusual collaboration: our own smoking craftsmen working directly with furniture artisans and a sawmill in Nagano, Japan's most respected hinoki-working region.

A Japanese smoking master's method for sweet, deeply aromatic cinnamon-smoked duck, brined and dehydrated with Pichit sheets, finished in a hinoki cypress smoker.