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Drum Smoker

Dawgtired
Dawgtired Posts: 680
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Any advantages over a BGE? If so, any particular brand you’d recommend?

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 37,788
    I have an Oklahoma Joe Bronco Drum smoker-replaced a Pit Barrel cooker with it.  Since it is a drum the way it cooks is different and the end flavour (nod) profile is different.  I hot smoke a fair amount of salmon and blind taste tests with neighbours (nod) the drum wins-same with smoked cream cheese.  It's great with chix wings as well.

    The drum can cook up to nine racks of ribs (I have an LBGE).  The cooking grid is about the same diameter as the LBGE, FWIW.  The best it can do on one load of charcoal is around 9-10 hours at 250-260*F (ambient outside temp around 50*F) so there are no big low and slow protein cooks.  

    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • mtasker
    mtasker Posts: 89
    I have a Pit Barrel Smoker and i love it.  It's a chicken cooking machine.  Very easy to run.
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  • Dawgtired
    Dawgtired Posts: 680
    I was looking at the Hunsaker. Pretty much crossed pellet grills off my wish list. So, just looking for a good excuse to buy another smoker.😁

    If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

    Ronald Reagan

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  • unoriginalusername
    unoriginalusername Posts: 1,156
    i have a hunsaker and like it... works much better than my 22" wsm decked out with upgrades trying to turn it into a hunsaker so my as well start there 
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,443
    Good to know, More ammo For my Beautiful Wife’s divorce attorney should she discover I have purchased one in the near future. 
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • ryantt
    ryantt Posts: 2,566
    Built a UDS 15yrs ago and still use it to this day.   I like it for briskets.  I get a great flavor and once I have my ball valve dialed in I can hold 275 for 12 hrs without touching it.  It’s a great cooker. 

    Just helped a friend build his, I think he had $125-$150 in it including to 22 inch Weber greats and a charcoal basket.  


    XL BGE, KJ classic, Joe Jr, UDS x2 


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