Hey eveyone,
It is finally time! Last time I shopped for a smoker was mid 90's. Ended up with the 18 inch version of the Smokey mountain. Have had a lot of fun doing some meats on it! It does not owe me a dime! I had to replace the charcoal pan twice, only recently lost the ability to have the water pan suspended....because the wall supports finally ripped through and the rest of the wall probably won't tolerate me trying to mount the brackets there. With that being said, I am pretty wide open as to what to replace it with. I would love to have a Yoder kingsman.......but my wallet laughs at me for such notions!! I have been looking at a similar set up, like the reverse flow longhorn, but very skeptical on char broil built things as none of the grills I have purchased from them have ever lasted that long, and none of them worked that well either for shorter periods!! In other words, they lasted longer than how well they worked.... I have looked at some RecTec smokers, pitboss, and traegers. Both horizontal and verticals. Verticals really have my attention at the moment though, because they seem to have so much more space to cook in. Please correct me if I'm wrong... Pellet or chip is also open. Any source of heat, but electric would be very last, because if I had no power, or power interruption occurred, I wouldn't take kindly to messing up a good piece of meat(s). I am somewhat capable with heat control with years behind me and the wsm!!! So fiddling with fire isn't a deterrent. What are recommendations? The sky is not the limit though!
It is finally time! Last time I shopped for a smoker was mid 90's. Ended up with the 18 inch version of the Smokey mountain. Have had a lot of fun doing some meats on it! It does not owe me a dime! I had to replace the charcoal pan twice, only recently lost the ability to have the water pan suspended....because the wall supports finally ripped through and the rest of the wall probably won't tolerate me trying to mount the brackets there. With that being said, I am pretty wide open as to what to replace it with. I would love to have a Yoder kingsman.......but my wallet laughs at me for such notions!! I have been looking at a similar set up, like the reverse flow longhorn, but very skeptical on char broil built things as none of the grills I have purchased from them have ever lasted that long, and none of them worked that well either for shorter periods!! In other words, they lasted longer than how well they worked.... I have looked at some RecTec smokers, pitboss, and traegers. Both horizontal and verticals. Verticals really have my attention at the moment though, because they seem to have so much more space to cook in. Please correct me if I'm wrong... Pellet or chip is also open. Any source of heat, but electric would be very last, because if I had no power, or power interruption occurred, I wouldn't take kindly to messing up a good piece of meat(s). I am somewhat capable with heat control with years behind me and the wsm!!! So fiddling with fire isn't a deterrent. What are recommendations? The sky is not the limit though!