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Forget Fast Food, Slow Cooked Meats Are Best - Smoker Reviews

In the days of fast foods, pizza delivery in 30 minutes, and instant gratification a microwave provides, it's a welcome relief to see that people like you are still interested in enjoying the finer things in life - beef brisket that has been smoked for 12 to 18 hours out in the backyard on your brand-new Bradley smoker that is so moist and delicious and full of smoke flavor that you cannot think of a better meal out there.

But don't just run out there and buy any smoker you find. There is an art to smoking meat - ribs, chicken, briskets, sausage, turkeys and ham.

You cannot be in a rush when you want to smoke your barbecue. You cannot throw a gallon of lighter fluid on your charcoal bricks or wood chips and get that fire flaming hot as fast as you can in your Brinkman Smoke n Grill Smoker.

You have to be patient, you have to coddle your fire, you have to keep it so low that you can barely see any flames coming out of the briquettes.

The hardest thing about using a Great Outdoors Masterbuilt, Char Broil, or Weber smoker is learning "how to smoke." And this will take you some trial and error in the beginning. The art of perfectly smoked meats comes from learning how to create the correct temperature that will produce the best quality meats time and again.

Many of the new electric smokers come with a built-in thermometer that make this process a little easier. And that makes one less thing you have to buy to get started smoking.

Smoking meats to make the perfect barbecue for a beautiful summer day requires about 5 to 10 hours of adjusting the fire, adding enough charcoal, wood and water, and the right air mixture and a little bit of love to make barbecue that is so delicious your family will never want to eat barbecue at a restaurant ever again.

Once you develop the art and skills of smoking succulent barbecue every time, you can expand your smoking empire and move up to a BBQ smoker trailer or a 55 gallon drum smoker and cook for the whole softball team.

And then if you really want to get fancy you can move up to a Horizon or Cookshack commercial smoker and move on to barbecue contests and competitions and try and win prizes for your famous barbecue.

By the way, the ultimate Horizon Smokehouse restaurant smoker will set you back around $29,000. But that's getting ahead of ourselves. You can find a perfectly good Masterbuilt electric smoker for as low as $200. That is so inexpensive you won't even think about making a homemade smoker which could take you several weekends to build.

Now that we've sufficiently wet your appetite, take a look around this site for reviews of the best electric smokers, smoker costs and the benefits of each kind, and recommendations.