Quote from: dickfoster on April 19, 2021, 03:42:19 PM
We're smokers not grillers. Smoking is all about low snd slow while grilling is fast and hot. Brarbeque is smoking, not grilling and grills aren't smokers and can't make barbeque. You can grill steaks but that ain't barbeque. Just smoking up a rack of ribs takes 6 hours. Briskets and pulled pork (pork shoulder) takes 12 hours or more.

I've done both, still do.  In my front yard is a salvaged propane tank that smokes or grills - it's big enough to put a 400lb whole hog, on a rack or the spit.  We use hickory - not pellets, small logs about the size of your fist.  Off to the side of the propane tank grill, there is a 2" pipe, connecting to a 2nd small tank, which I build the smoking fire in, for cold smoking cheddar, fish or meats.  This is my 3rd or 4th smoker/grill, hopefully my LAST.

Maybe you guys can afford to buy those things, I cannot, so I just build them, as cheaply as I can.

Quote from: Hoofer on April 19, 2021, 04:12:01 PM
I've done both, still do.  In my front yard is a salvaged propane tank that smokes or grills - it's big enough to put a 400lb whole hog, on a rack or the spit.  We use hickory - not pellets, small logs about the size of your fist.  Off to the side of the propane tank grill, there is a 2" pipe, connecting to a 2nd small tank, which I build the smoking fire in, for cold smoking cheddar, fish or meats.  This is my 3rd or 4th smoker/grill, hopefully my LAST.

Maybe you guys can afford to buy those things, I cannot, so I just build them, as cheaply as I can.

The last smoker I had was store bought but by the time I did what was necessary to make it work as it should I may as well have built it from scratch. When i got the pellet rig I donated my old rig it to a young guy. I had made a temperature contolled stoker fan for it so it worked very well for those long smokes. All I had to do was keep it fed with fuel. I did mostly lump and chunk smoking with it.

Well, alrighty, then, boys....