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OT: Smoker Recommendation
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<blockquote data-quote="froginaustin" data-source="post: 2878634" data-attributes="member: 785"><p>I used to have 3 or 4 wood/charcoal cookers, but wife announced that our yard looked like Fred Sanford's. I could only keep one.</p><p></p><p>Big Green Egg. It does a lot of things well. It will get very hot for grilling. For smoking or slow cooking with or without a baffle plate, if you put in a lot of fuel and watch it as the fire gets going, you can slow it down regulating air intake and exhaust when it gets to the temperature you want. It will hold a temperature for hours without a lot of further attention if it starts out with a belly full of fuel. I have had good luck with it holding temperatures as low as ~180 and as high as 350. I haven't tried to have it hold a temperature any hotter than 350.</p><p></p><p>Friends have a Kamado Joe. It has more nice features than an Egg, but doesn't seem to hold temperatures as well.</p><p></p><p>My Big Green Egg is fragile. Two baffle plates have broken. Each cracked into 2 pieces being carefully moved on or off the cooker. The ceramic liner is cracked and likely should be replaced. Replacement parts are available, but expensive.</p><p></p><p>The BGE that I have is not easily moved. It's fragile, and the shipping weight on the ceramic parts alone was 100 kilograms.</p><p></p><p>Although BGE instructions strongly discourage using any fuel but lump charcoal, but I have done very well mixing aromatic wood-- hickory, apple, cherry-- with lump charcoal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="froginaustin, post: 2878634, member: 785"] I used to have 3 or 4 wood/charcoal cookers, but wife announced that our yard looked like Fred Sanford's. I could only keep one. Big Green Egg. It does a lot of things well. It will get very hot for grilling. For smoking or slow cooking with or without a baffle plate, if you put in a lot of fuel and watch it as the fire gets going, you can slow it down regulating air intake and exhaust when it gets to the temperature you want. It will hold a temperature for hours without a lot of further attention if it starts out with a belly full of fuel. I have had good luck with it holding temperatures as low as ~180 and as high as 350. I haven't tried to have it hold a temperature any hotter than 350. Friends have a Kamado Joe. It has more nice features than an Egg, but doesn't seem to hold temperatures as well. My Big Green Egg is fragile. Two baffle plates have broken. Each cracked into 2 pieces being carefully moved on or off the cooker. The ceramic liner is cracked and likely should be replaced. Replacement parts are available, but expensive. The BGE that I have is not easily moved. It's fragile, and the shipping weight on the ceramic parts alone was 100 kilograms. Although BGE instructions strongly discourage using any fuel but lump charcoal, but I have done very well mixing aromatic wood-- hickory, apple, cherry-- with lump charcoal. [/QUOTE]
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