Hi All,
So I have done some smoking on my Weber gas BBQ with varying degrees of success using various methods of generating smoke.
I then went and got one of those dirt cheap smokers from eBay for about £25 and fired it up this weekend - Milk marinaded guinea fowl cooked on CPL Briquettes with a chuck of beech thrown in.
Turned out much better than expected, given the build quality of the BBQ (you can literally warp it a centimeter or so with your thumb and fore-finger, which is just as well as a centimeter or two appears to be the engineering tolerance of the thing. Also, strangely enough the built-in thermometer in the cheap thing is quite accurate, much better than the Weber one... odds...).
So obviously I'm already looking at upgrading to a better new toy, options seem to be a Brinkmann Smoke n' Grill for £75, a Pro Q for £200-300ish, or a Weber Smoky Mountain for about £350.
Whats the difference between these lot? How are the ProQ/WSM worth four times the price of the Brinkmann? Also, how do you regulate your temperatures?
My current el-cheapo thing is open-bottomed with a vent in the top. Can you regulate temperature effectively with the bottom and top vents on the ProQ/WSM?
Thanks!