Electric Smokers?

[jpshaw]

You guys have any thoughts or opinions (or recipes) for electric smokers? I have always used my upright Cajun Cooker for smoking but the wife bought this electric a decade ago and I would like to try it. It would be nice to cover the element with soaked wood chips, load the two racks and plug the thing in.

[jglass]

I have this one but have only had the chance to use it once.

I use a stovetop smoker quiet a bit.

[Mama Mangia]

I felt the same way when I bought my first electric char-b-q - but it grew on me quickly. It's nice to use when you can't get outside to grill because your house is buried in snow!

[jpshaw]

Mine is 100% outside. It's just an upright smoker but with an electric element in the bottom. Your element is covered with "lava rock" and you cover that with soaked wood chips. It belches out smoke just like a charcoal smoker only you don't have to light it or keep adding charcoal. You do have to add more wood chips if you run it for a long time.

[Mama Mangia]

I used to want a stove with the built in grill and the huge overhead hood for venting till I found out that is you are using the grill you can't get your stove burners or oven to heat up! A friend of mine has a BBQ pit (restaurant) where they BBQ everything outside no matter what the weather. Because of our weather here, they cook on the good days and freeze everything (which I am against) and then warm it on the grill with sauce as they get orders. They have huge freezers stocked with cooked meats.

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

I do not know anything about Electric Smokers, but when I do get a Smoker I want one just like Rick's...he has the REAL THING I have seen pictures!!!!

[jglass]

Yeah if you use the one I have for long you have to reload the chips.
If I had the place I would 110% prefer the real thing.

[jpshaw]

I do not know anything about Electric Smokers, but when I do get a Smoker I want one just like Rick's...he has the REAL THING I have seen pictures!!!!

I have seen Ricks too. It is what I call a "Side box smoker" and I've wanted one for years. I hint every Christmas and Fathers day but everyone says; You have two, what do you want another one for. I didn't buy either of the other ones. I want to give them away and get the side box. The side box is for the fire and the main box is for the meat.

[jglass]

I smoked the hamburger and garlic I used in hotdog sauce the other day. It was the best hotdog sauce ever. I did the same thing later in the week for chili.

[PaniniGuy]

Electrics are nice for when you want total temperature control. If you do it right with wood chips, you really can get good results!