Just BBQ ! (103)
Did I mention I won't waste any time here on Gas or Electric grills... or was that obvious? Even though 6 out of every 10 grills sold in America is a Gas grill, I still prefer a charcoal grill even if it's a cheap little hibachi used just for grilling. But if you still want to BBQ....
you might want to skip the vertical, charcoal water smoker and move right on up to a Horizonal Smoker. It is more expensive, larger and heavier but has several advantages I like. It's a covered and well ventilated grill suited for smoking, it has a much larger cooking surface, it has a separate "fire box" that you can use for charcoal or wood burning, you can add charcoal or wood without opening the lid to the cooking area, you can "Grill" with direct heat using just the cooking chamber or "Slo-Smoke-BBQ" using the fire box as a real indirect source of heat. Remember, with any grill that does not have a separate fire-box, (such as the famous round covered kettle grills or even the rectangular ones), when you cook indirectly on these grills by building your fire on one side of the grill and placing your meat on the other side so the meat is not directly over the fire... you have just cut the fire area and your cooking surface in half! About the only difference in Horizonal Smokers with fire-boxes is the more you pay for one the bigger it will be, the heavier it will be and the longer it will last. I like my Horizonal Smoker with fire-box attached even though my two cars have to share a good portion of their Garage with "it". (Boy, are they pissed-off about that!) And all that fire wood in my backyard will get burned in my smoker much faster than in my fireplace, I'm sure.
Just BBQ ! (104) will give you even another choice of BBQ Smokers to consider... so don't buy yet!
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