Smoker recommendations

Speaking of homemade did CDM use a old freezer or fridge, I think I recall him doing Linguica with great success

Sure miss that guy on site ..fond memories of Tequila shots at Albion

Marv too

+1, some of the best memories I cherish were hanging with Antonio.


FM1 also built some cool smokers out of discarded BBQ's, ones that had a stainless steel doors below the grill were easy to convert.  To fire up the wood chips, he cut the heating element out of a little chief with a sawzall 

Yeah I believe that !  Andy is an awesome guy at fabricating with metal 

Too bad nobody likes him.

Speaking of homemade did CDM use a old freezer or fridge, I think I recall him doing Linguica with great success

Sure miss that guy on site ..fond memories of Tequila shots at Albion

Marv too

It was his father-in-law that had the smoke room.  I was always begging Antonio to get me the recipe.  Apparently he was sworn to secrecy.

-Allen

I begged for the recipe, too! Antonio wouldn’t budge.

My first smoker was made out of a Dishwasher box. Just poked some holes in the sides and ran some dowels thru to set the racks from the oven on. Cut a door in the base, slid in an electric hot plate with a cast iron pan full of smoking chips. Worked perfect!
Kevin

The cold smoke unit I bought is a smoke beast

The outlet is 1/2” copper and it was almost clogged after the break-in run. I put 1/2” pipe into the side of the Weber but it really could use a 1” pipe outlet. Not sure I can modify it. After running smoke into the Weber last night the pipe fittings were dripping oil probably the oil used to press the pellets. It basically sweat-fitted the fittings to the pipe

Offset chargriller here.
Not sure I would call it a cold smoke rig tho...

I will 2 nd for the Tragger.
Been thinking of finding a donation and taking the mechanism etc and make a bigger unit
Only thing with Tragger is cant leave out side the pellets crumble due to moisture
Love the set and forget 

I'll second not leaving one outside, ( at least not the fuel)
 my son just had that issue over thanksgiving and the feed shoot lit up...
Aka Don't set and forget

Our big traeger kept shutting down w a lot of expensive fish inside so you had to babysit it more than a big chief

It was the electronics. The t-rep at Costco told me bring it back they’ve fixed the problem. I returned it and brought home the updated version and it was just as dysfunctional as the first one. That was several years back so maybe they fixed it by now

These were their big smokers so was a project to do the returns

Shopping for our new grill I avoided all the digital shit

My Treager is old, and controller went out first year.   Sent me a new one and been fine since.   Bush 2 was President when I got it.  I smoke cheese and fish would do well also with a smoke tube.   Tube on one side and cheese on other side, cold night.   Smoke for about 1.5 hours.   A little less than a half tube.

My first smoker was made out of a Dishwasher box. Just poked some holes in the sides and ran some dowels thru to set the racks from the oven on. Cut a door in the base, slid in an electric hot plate with a cast iron pan full of smoking chips. Worked perfect!
Kevin

Good Eats method! 

I am a Weber guy and have smoked on everything from the Little Joe, to the 22 inch Kettle (which I still use) and I still have my 18 inch Smokey Mountain aka bullet.   The 22 inch kettle is beyond diverse from direct to indirect heat, smoke, roast, get the optional rotisserie and you have a unviersal tool. Is it the best, there are others that do it better, but none I have seen that does all of it well.