06-09-2005, 10:30 PM
The first question you need to ask is what do you intend to smoke? I barbecue about every week and have been doing a fair bit of barbecue catering lately (barbecue--not grilling).
The WSM (Weber Smokey Mountain) is the only vertical bullet smoker worth buying, though it has a fairly small capacity. And while it burns charcoal, you can still get 12- to 20- hour burn times using the Minion Method.
The smoker in Pat's picture is ideal for jerkey, but it's a fair-weathered smoker and you need to cure most meats that you smoke in it due to the low temps and extended smoke times. You can buy them at any Wal-Mart.
Even though I have a few nice smokers for smoking ribs, briskets, pork butts, etc, I still use my Little Chief for jerkey.
Last, smoking recipes are not smoker-specific. So if you want smoked salmon, any good smoking cookbook will work.
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The WSM (Weber Smokey Mountain) is the only vertical bullet smoker worth buying, though it has a fairly small capacity. And while it burns charcoal, you can still get 12- to 20- hour burn times using the Minion Method.
The smoker in Pat's picture is ideal for jerkey, but it's a fair-weathered smoker and you need to cure most meats that you smoke in it due to the low temps and extended smoke times. You can buy them at any Wal-Mart.
Even though I have a few nice smokers for smoking ribs, briskets, pork butts, etc, I still use my Little Chief for jerkey.
Last, smoking recipes are not smoker-specific. So if you want smoked salmon, any good smoking cookbook will work.
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