I see a number of you with the pellet smokers post pictures , I have been playing with an old wood/charcoal offset smoker
I got it for free as it had a rust hole in the far end of the cook chamber near the chimney

I patched that up and it is working fine

My question is , how many of you are running

Gas/LP
Electric
wood/charcoal
pellet

what do you run and what do you see as the pros and cons of the unit you have?

Electric, all pros and no cons with my experience. I like the set and forget aspect. I’ve had LP and offset wood, the LP would not hold temp in cold weather, didn’t like the constant babysitting of the off set wood smoker. Eric

Ive got a electric master built and a pit boss pellet grill/smoker.i like youcan set the temp and basically let it smoke and dont have to baby sit it the pit boss has a bigger cooking/smoking area then the master built.i dont like the idea of having to depend on electricity for either 1 of them to run and pellets can be pricey and ive noticed differnces in different brands of pellets.i did buy a bag of charcoal pellets last year to try and they worked OK.ive never used 1 like you just acquired but have thought about getting 1.i gave my dad a charcoal/wood grill/smoker years ago that he never used still sitting in the corner of the garage.its a upright barrel type since he passed a couple years ago I could probably get it if I wanted.

Smokey Mountain cooker. Charcoal and wood. Not many cons. Get your dampers set and it'll smoke for hours.

I smoke fish and only use wood. Pro's it tastes excellent. Wood grows everywhere on my land so i never run out of fuel. Con's... None for me, I enjoy sitting outside in all weather tending the smoker. Fish usually take between 9-11 hours depending on thickness of fish and i never let the temp climb above 180°F.

… offset wood pit

… because I’m heterosexual

No gas and no glued up pellets are touching my meat.

Charcoal for the Weber, or hardwood for the offset smoker.



yeah, but you start it with lighter fluid, so that makes you a hetero-metrosexual.

ol' dad

I had an offset wood smoker, lot of time needed to run it..now use a Smoky Mountain, charcoal and wood, works good, and you don't need to baby sit it.

All wood baby, reverse flow stick cooker/smoker.

Charcoal/wood pit smoker for me. Like Dan said, once you get your dampers set everything works great.

I have a propane, a big offset and a smaller PK charcoal/wood grill. Wood imparts the best flavor of any of them. A bit of a learning curve with wood/charcoal when it comes to smoking on them. As far needing to babysit them, if its a well built good quality smoker they dont take alot of babysitting once you learn to operate them. I can smoke for 8 hrs without adding fuel or adjusting the temperature. You can get thermometers that blue tooth to your phone or unit in the house were you can set alarms for high and low temps. Like everything quality results usually take a bit more work but the flavor of meat smoked with real wood is worth it for me. If you are willing to give up a bit of quality for the easy button pellet grill are the next step down. But then you also have electronics to operate and fail. I use the propane only when we are doing large batches of heavily seasoned products like summer sausage and deer sticks when the other smokers are already full.

I have a Green Mountain pellet smoker.

It's not the wifi model

It's not bad

I still prefer a stick burner and will buy another one someday.

The last stick burner I replaced the bottom 4 times. When it came due again there wasn't enough good steel to work with so it went to the scrap yard.

I have a gas grill and a pellet smoker and charcoal bullet smokers and small lp smokers and a big ol large hog smoker.

Pellet smokers are easy and don't require any babysitting, its like setting an oven temp... great for an all day cook on something you don't have to babysit like a pork butt, but kinda but slow for making some steaks and pork chops for dinner.

They make electric models that are basically an outdoor oven.

Mines not wifi or anything but it has a readout for a probe you can plug into and read off of the grill. The make thermometers that work with your phone separate than the cooker stand alone on amazon im sure.

Depends what Im doing as to which one I use.

Green mountain pellet grill.Works great for everything.I think I’ve replaced every part on it and they all require parts from time to time.

Very nice Flatlander, did you make that smoker?

Stick burning offset here.

I have an electric smoker and an offset wood/charcoal smoker. As for taste, there really is no comparison between wood and electric. So, when I have time, I prefer using the wood one. That said, I also like my electric one.... especially for long cooks like whole butts or briskets if I have neither the time nor desire to tend a fire.

IMO the only benefit to anything over wood is that is doesn't require constant tending.

Webber smokey mountain cooker natural lump charcoal

I've had a Traeger pellet grill for about 8 years now. I use it pretty regularly and have no issues with it.

My last smoker (don't have it now) was a gas Masterbuilt. It was a verticle smoker and would hold 12 chickens. Smoked a lot of tuna in it.

We used to have a "bring your own chicken" party. Neighborhood couples brought two whole chickens to our house the day before to be brined. I smoked them the following day, and we partied that night. Each couple got a whole chicken to eat and another whole chicken to take home with them.