I watched an episode of Man, Fire, Food last night and there was a piece on smoker seasoning. The guy in the show had lost one of his smokers to a fire and had to replace it. They had seasoned the new smoker a few times and did a food test between food smoked on that smoker versus one of the old units. The results were that the food tastes were clearly discernible between the 2 per blind taste testing. It might make you think twice about ever cleaning the inside of your smoker.
