Your reccomendations on smokers

[ashyannehand]

We have the cheapo from Wal-Mart, although it is not propaine. It is charcol but works great as long as you put only a little charcol in it and use wet wood chips. We use our all of the time. A chicken, slab of ribs and two large steaks will fit, so I am sure that a turkey will. The nake brand is Brinkmann Smoke N' Grill and it was about $30.

Happy Smokin'

 

[MissPrissy]

I purchased Great Outdoors Grill Company Smoky Mountain Gas Smoker for my husband for his brithday a few years ago. The company was bought out by another company but the smoker has been rated as one of the best buys.

I can smoke chickens, turkeys, ducks or geese in it as well as ribs, pork etc.

It is the wide body model and measures 34 inches wide.

I was looking on google just now and the best price going so far seems to be to order it from Walmart.com and have it shipped to your door.

We liked it so much that same year we sent one to my sister for her birthday and one to my dh's brother for his birthday.

They love them too.

If you get this one you will want to fill it up and then freeze some of the meats. Imagine this thing filled with smoked duck for fall and winter.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

I save branches from my apple trees and cure them to use to smoke a lot of our meats with. Delicious!

 

[beefy]

Brooke Shields once told me that smoking kills. And if your killed, youve lost a very important part of your life.

So i would quit smoking cold turkey if i was you. you can let it soak in the sink over night.

 

[Wildsky]

 

[FloridaChickenChick]

I have an electric smoker but would prefer propane to charcoal.

I started with a charcoal smoker. When we got the "new" electric one, I was amazed at how much better the flavor was with the steady temperature. Faster, too.

But I think it's possible to get great results whatever you use if you're happy poking about to keep the coals doing what they need to do.

Smoked salmon....yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[eggzettera]

Sorry for this but I really did get my smoker from Marlboro, back when they had you save miles....got beat to the punch on....Alton Brown serious easy cheap & home made smoker & the Brooke Sheilds quote....so great minds think alike, simple seldom differ.....

 

[PurpleChicken]

Thanks everyone for the responses. I was away from the computer for a while
so I never had a chance to respond. Good stuff there people.

That Big Green Egg looks nice but it's way more than I can afford to spend
on my first smoker. We have a Weber Mini Grill ($50) & a 1/2 off Lowes special
turkey fryer. Both stay outside on a patch of dirt all year long. Once I build
my next house and a deck we'll get the good stuff.

The one MissPrissy posted about looks exactly what I'm looking for. I'll have
to go check it out. I'll be asking for some smoking recipes soon.

Now for all the cancer stick responses:
My slow suicide of choice were Malboro Lights and Parliment Lights. I quit them
successfully after my son was born and then again after we bought our house.
If I'm gonna die early of something I would like it to be something fun like
drowning in my kayak, being grated along a highway after falling off my motorcycle,
being shot by my lover's husband (kidding), or waking up to my wife holding my
gun in my face. Heck, I'll even settle for a pickled liver. Hicup

But I totally support your right to the slow painful deaths most smokers end up with.
It's your body and your life.

P.S. I hope everyone realizes I'm being a sarcastic jerk here. I hated it so much
when people used to lecture me. It only made me wanna light one up worse.

 

[nautical_bouy]

It also depends on if you want to cold smoke or cook the food, I replaced my fridge smoker with a Luhr Jensen Big Chief, it's great for old style, brined salmon, jerkey, small batches of bacon, and for flavoring porkchops and poultry.
For the rest I have a Brinkman Smoken Pit, I put a gas burner in the fire box and did not like it, it just wasn't the same flavor and would get to hot, so I'm back to wood with that one.

 

[mirime]

Quote:
hehehe me too!

 

[purr]

Noooo wal-mart ,

wal-mart BAD!

now I need a cigerette