As the author of a book barbecue, I asked all the time ... what is better to buy a barbecue smoker? My answer usually leads in the right direction and give them some places to begin your search.
I usually tell people to a barbecue smoker of the following ...
Big green egg - this is an isolated vertical smoking. They start at about $ 600 to $ 700 for the large model.
Traeger Pellet Smoking - This is a barbecue smoker that burns wood pellets. The Lil 'Tex $ 695 from Thedigital controls and large hoppers are a little 'more though.
Char-Broil Silver Smoker - This is an affordable, smaller offset type smokers, but is well constructed and produced some great D. Her down to Home Depot are $ 159.
Smoker strains - this is an isolated vertical smoker with a system of emphasis supplied coal. They start at $ 1,600.
Lang Smoker - This is a traditional offset smoker. And 'good metal thickness, but not isolated. This offset BBQSmoking is unique because it has a metal plate that covers the entire length of the smoker is directly under the meat rack. The smoke travels all the way to the other end of the smoker, the meat and on the same side of the fireplace hearth. The long-Model 60 starts at $ 2,195.
Fast Eddy by Cookshack - This is a nice BBQ Smoker pellets with a vertical style. Used by many of the top teams in competition barbecue. It is about $ 3295.
Southern Yankee - who is smoking Rotisserie Grilland there are many models to choose from. This train runs from behind towing granting large grids. They start at $ 3750 and from there.
And ... their final decision must do as a rule with the following factors ...
Price - the amount of money they spent on a smoker grill has a lot to do with your decision. I think the most bang for the buck is the Traeger Lil 'Tex BBQ Smoker - especially for BBQer yard. Although many teams use them BBQ as well.Whatever you do, do not go to Wal-Mart or Home Depot and buy one of these small offset smoker for $ 300 or less. They are ventilated very thin metal and the furnace is not good. You will have trouble producing good things on the grill.
Labor required - a traditional barbecue smoker offset requires a lot of work tend to focus. Some people prefer a traditional offset smoker on something that coal, pellets or burns propane. But I warn you ... I'm really hackingFirewood to feed the hungry beast. You need more than offset the fire in the smoker every 15-30 minutes to check. The Yankees of the South are made of wood or coal. This can be very difficult to smoke for a long night. Big Green Egg Smoker and strains will be long term, only a lot of coal. Of course, the Traeger and Fast Eddy pellets are burned, the fed automatically.
Isolated - Isolated BBQ Smoker burns a lot of time permits, giving a small eye may be closed along theNight smoking chest. The Big Green Egg and Stump are isolated and burn coal.
Dimensions - Find out how many square inches of cooking space to get for your money. Traeger Lil 'Tex BBQ smokers are nice, but you will need two or three of them, if you want to compete with them. Traeger has of course chosen by many larger models to choose from, including some commercial barbecue smoker.
Wood, pellet or coal - What kind of smoke flavor you like? Do you like coal or wood? Or maybea combination of both ... usually if you coal for heating and throw some pieces of wood on top for flavor, you get a good result. Duraflame lump charcoal and briquettes and hardwood are other options that produce a burn cleaner and hotter. Of course, real wood and wood pellets, the results are similar with real wood trunks.
Type - you have your vertical smoker, vertical smoker isolated, traditional offset smokers (compared to the chimney from the fireplace), long-offsetThe smokers, pellet smokers, smoker grill, smoker gas, and all kinds of combinations of these. What is BBQ Smoker suit your needs or requests?
Once you BBQ Smoker on what to decide, you need to learn how they do it well. A good start is to get a copy of "Competition BBQ Secrets" and how the pros do it on the competition barbecue circuit.
