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    New member from the heart of BBQ Country...

    Boston, Massachusetts.

    I just signed up to aid my quest for a new smoker. I've used Webers, a Brinkman electric water smoker, and most recently a Bradley Smoker. However, the Bradley was torn up by a bear in my yard this spring. So I'm in search of a new machine. Quality wise the water smoker yielded my best BBQ, but it required lots of attention, as did the Weber. The Bradley required little attention, but yielded the least satisfactory results. I'm looking for high quality AND ease of use. I hope y'all can help me! I do a little bit of everything... ribs, chicken, salmon, trout, shoulder and brisket.
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    from Kansas

    Originally posted by Hambone View Post
    Boston, Massachusetts.

    I just signed up to aid my quest for a new smoker. I've used Webers, a Brinkman electric water smoker, and most recently a Bradley Smoker. However, the Bradley was torn up by a bear in my yard this spring. So I'm in search of a new machine. Quality wise the water smoker yielded my best BBQ, but it required lots of attention, as did the Weber. The Bradley required little attention, but yielded the least satisfactory results. I'm looking for high quality AND ease of use. I hope y'all can help me! I do a little bit of everything... ribs, chicken, salmon, trout, shoulder and brisket.
    Im not convinced that you will ever get top quality with little or no effort...But I'll never bash a guy for trying...
    Craig
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    • #3
      Good to see ya, Hambone!!-----

      I guess your torn up Bradley is proof that not all Bears are Nice Guys!!

      Bear
      Vietnam Vet---9th Inf. Div. Mekong Delta (1969)
      Easy to follow Step By Steps: Pulled Cured Boston Butt Ham and Buckboard Bacon--Smoked Salmon-- Bacon-On-A-Stick--Bacon (Extra Smokey)--Boneless Cured & Smoked Pork Chops & CB--Canadian Bacon & Dried Beef--Ham Twins (Double Smoked)--Double Smoked Hams X 4--Bear Logs (All Beef--Unstuffed)--Smoked Bear Loaf (All Beef-Mild Hot)--Prime Rib (My Best ever)--Another Prime Rib--Chucky (Pulled Beef)--Twin Chuckies--Pork and Beef Spares--Rare Beef (for Sammies)--Raspberry Chiffon Pie---


      Mom & 4 Cub litter---Potter County, PA:

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      • #4
        Welcome! You can get great Q with a minimal amount of effort from a Pellet cooker. Maybe something like a Yoder YS 480 or YS 640 would be fitting for you.
        Don

        Humphrey's Pint
        Weber Smokey Mountain 18.5"
        Weber Performer (Black Top, Stainless Steel Table Edition circa 2005)
        Blackstone Professional Series 36" Griddle
        Weber Spirit SP-310 Gas Grill
        Anova One Sous Vide
        AMPS
        Purple Thermapen
        Maverick ET-733
        DigIQ DX2
        Misfit #1674

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        • #5
          Hello and welcome!!!!!

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          • #6
            from Utah
            Masterbuilt Stainless Steel 40"
            Weber 22.5" WSM
            Weber Performer W/rotisserie X2
            Weber 22.5" Kettle Silver
            Weber 22.5" Kettle Gold
            Weber 1990 22.5" 3 Wheeler
            Weber 18.5" Kettle
            Weber 18.5" Bud Light Kettle
            Weber Smokey Joe
            GMG Daniel Boone
            Pit Barrel Cooker
            Maverick ET 73 and ET 732
            6X8 A Maze N Smoker and Tube Smoker
            Fastest Themapen on the market BLACK
            The Vortex

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            • #7
              Welcome from Florida!

              I recently purchased a Green Mountain Grills portable (Davy Crockett).
              http://greenmountaingrills.com/produ...davy-crockett/

              I've only used it a couple times but it works fine. I think it's a Treager with a new skin, but it has given me no problems and I kinda "tested it" when I first got it. Changed temps and finished hot (chiggen). They are pretty affordable, I got this one used, real cheap. It's intended for the hunt camp so I can go hunting for three or four hours and have din din ready when I get back. Runs on 12V also.

              It's not a real fire (lump or wood), might not get the same barque, but it works.
              Mark
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              "Likes smokey old pool rooms, clear mountain mornins. Little warm puppies, children and girls of the night"?
              Smoked-Meat Certified Sausage Head!

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              • #8
                from DelaWhere! I love my Webers, and my Klose stick burner... other than that, I got nuthin'...


                Drinks well with others



                ~ P4 ~

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                • #9
                  Welcome aboard...

                  As far as the water smokers, try sand in the pan during the colder months to keep temps constant, longer. All the water pan or ceramics do is provide a baffle for indirect heat.

                  Give it a shot and see what happens. Worked wonders for me in CO in the winter.
                  Pete
                  Large BGE
                  Char Broil Tru-Infrared Commercial series

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                  • #10
                    Great to have you join us Hambone, from North Dakota!

                    Originally posted by tadowdaddy View Post
                    Welcome! You can get great Q with a minimal amount of effort from a Pellet cooker. Maybe something like a Yoder YS 480 or YS 640 would be fitting for you.
                    I think the 10 gauge steel construction of a YS640's cook chamber would put up quite a challenge for a bear to damage...
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                    • #11
                      from Florida
                      Jim

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                      • #12
                        Hambone! you ready for a collard gig! throw that hambone in em & get after it...Cheers...glad ya with us!
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                        • #13
                          Greetings & from the parched wasteland of Arizona.
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                          Not to mention the occasional campfire

                          My --->
                          Paul

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                            The more complex and computerized the cooker, the more things that can go wrong with it, at what is usually a very inconvienent time.......
                            Once you go Weber....you never call customer service....

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                              from Washington
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