From Grill to Smoker

[BBQkev]

Looking for some advice. I have always been a BBQ guy (British style grill), in the last few years I have been smoking low 'n' slow in my Webber Kettle but more and more I'm interested in offset smoking and getting more smoking capacity than my kettle. Has anyone got any suggestions for a decent back garden offset smoker. I'm not looking to spend a fortune, maybe less than £200.

[JEC]

To be honest you will be hard pushed to find an offset for less than £200 that is worth buying, you'd be better of looking for a bullet style smoker, again will be a bit more than £200 but still lots cheaper than a decent offset. Check out the weber smokey mountain or the ProQ frontier.

[YetiDave]

Solid advice from JEC there. I would steer well clear of an offset unless you've got a high budget and an unlimited supply of seasoned hardwood.

[Tiny]

You may as well smoke by setting fire to the £200 rather than buy a cheap offset. If you have a Weber kettle there is an stacker available for about £100 that turns it into a bullet style smoker, or spend slightly less and build your own UDS.

Or spend slightly more and buy an GMG Daniel Boon, I just did and am well pleased......

Honestly cheap offsets, as sensible as putting your love spuds in an honey badgers mouth and whacking his with a rolled up towel, just don't do it......
Cheers
Tiny

[PyroBoris]

Honestly cheap offsets, as sensible as putting your love spuds in an honey badgers mouth and whacking his with a rolled up towel, just don't do it......
Cheers
Tiny

Honeybadgers are truly vicious beasts!

Use the money to make two UDS's, and place one slightly higher than other. Now you have two smokers and one is slightly offset. Use the remaining money to buy lots of meat! (and coal)

[PDC7]

I have to admit I was in the Range a couple of weeks ago and amongst all the cack there was a decent quality setup available (I estimate metal was almost 2mm thick)

This is the basic section:

http://www.therange.co.uk/bbq-chef-smok ... uct/110071

and this can be attached to turn it into and offset smoker:

(doesn't appear on website but is in store)

It may be worth taking a look if you are instore one day, i'm not saying it is any good, but I thought it looked decent.

total cost to collect would be under £200

[PyroBoris]

I've definitely seem worse BBQ's! This one even has a bottle opener on the front