Smoker

[Pope n Young]

Im thinking about buying a smoker soon. Any suggestions on brand name, what to look for, gas or electric?

[buck1765]

I'm not sure on the best brand, but I do know from experience that you should try stay away from any that require you take the cover off to check your chips or the items that you are smoking. Several brands have seperate doors. Stainless, while expensive, hold up the best and one that has some insulation retains your heat. Not sure about gas -vs- electric. I have always used electric. They are easy to use and you don't have to worry about running out of gas. The charcoal style with a seperate charcaol chamber give off the best taste (or so I hae heard) but require more work. hope this helps. Happy smoking.

[shamrocker]

I have been smoking with a Bradley Smoker that I purchased from Cabelas 5 years ago. It is electric and it works awesome. My family has been making our own summer sausge and brats with it. A freind has a similar smoker that is LP one thing that I noticed with LP is that it gets a lot hotter so it has to be wathced a little more carefully. Mine uses chips that feed in from the outside. They burn like 20 min. appeace just load the tray up and it is all self operated. Chips are also purcahsed at cabelas you get like 120 chips for 25 bucks. (40 hours of smoking).

[Jore]

I have an H20 smoker and it works great. I know that friends of mine are pretty happy with the electric smokers. It is less work. You like messing around with the fire and having control over the amount of smoke. My next smoker I am going to make out of a 200 gallon fuel oil barrel.