Serious barbecuers use different wood species for smoking, to impart the desired flavors. A problem can arise if they forget what species they last loaded into their smoker. That's why barbecue supply company The Pit Bros sell magnets like these that you can slap onto the side of the hopper:
It's effective, if inelegant. A huge design improvement is this 3D-printed Pellet Pal:
Takes up less space, uses less materials, and cheaper than buying the individual magnets. Win-win-win.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Great Example of a Thoughtful Product Design Improvement: The 3D-Printed Pellet Pal
Why not align the orientation of the type so they can both read horizontally?
The user could just print a list of woods, glue it to the smoker, and then place a small red magnet on the appropriate wood name. Ink and glue chosen to be UV and heat proof respectively, of course.
If the cover plate was translucent so that all the text could be read, the user could select a wood more quickly.