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Great BBQ Smoker Ideas...

An offset style bbq smoker can be a pain in the neck sometimes... they are big and heavy and require a lot of work to keep the fire going at a consistent temperature. They produce some good bbq, but a lot of bbq competitors and backyarders alike prefer something a little easier to operate. That's why there is a hot market for insulated vertical smokers like the Stumps and Big Green Egg. Also... pellet smokers like the Traeger Lil' Tex. Pellet smokers are usually not insulated, but they are very easy to use - just load up the hopper with pellets, set your desired temperature, and sit back and relbbq smokerax (almost).

An insulated vertical bbq smoker is just what it sounds like... a vertical smoker that has well insulated sides. The extra insulation maintains heat and moisture producing some pretty extraordinary bbq. These smokers can maintain the proper heat range for up to 16 hours on just one bag of charcoal! The Stumps smokers even have a new self feeding charcoal hopper. You can't get much easier than that except maybe on a Traeger. A vertical smoker usually has a heat source at the bottom, a water pan right over the heat source and then several racks in the cooking area with vents at the top. I used to own a Coleman gas vertical bbq smoker and it produced bbq smokersome of the best barbecue I have ever smoked. There's just something about that water pan which helps maintain the temperature and continuously bastes the meat during the cooking process. Did you know that water can never get above 212 deg F - the ideal smoking temperature for most barbequing?

If you want a bbq smoker that uses real wood "pellets" instead of charcoal, look into something like the Lil' Tex Traeger for $699. These things work just like a big offset smoker, but all you do is fill up a hopper with your favorite flavor of pellets and let it go! They even have an optional digital thermostat that will maintain an exact temperature without having to mess with vents, fireboxes, chopping wood, and chimney stacks. The standard control just has a low, medium, and high setting. They have many flavors of pellets available too... alder, apple, cherry, garlic, hickory, maple, mesquite, oak, onion and pecan. If you would like to learn all the fine details on how to bbq like a pro, read "Competition BBQ Secrets".

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