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Char Broil Offset Smoker American Gourmet Grill | 
 enlarge | Brand: Char-Broil
Category: Lawn & Patio
Buy New: $122.49
as of 9/10/2010 04:30:42 EDT details
New (2) from $122.49
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 415313
Color: Black
Shipping Weight (lbs): 47.7
Dimensions (in): 17.5 x 46.3 x 43.8
Model: 10201570
UPC: 099143015705
EAN: 0099143015705
ASIN: B00365FI9E
Release Date: January 17, 2010
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 288 square inches primary cooking area with 138 square inches of secondary cooking area | | • | Porcelain coated cooking grate with chrome swingaway | | • | Clean-out door for easy ash remoal | | • | Steel firebox for offset heat and slow smoke flavor | | • | Convenient side shelf |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Char Broil American Gourmet Offset Smoker represents a great option for the "beginner" smoker or those who don't need to feed an army every time you cook. The offset fire box allows for classic indirect cooking thgough the transmission of smoke, flavor, and low heat, through the cooking chamber. The cooking chamber is covered by a 288 sq. in. porcelain wire cooking grate. There is a simple door for easy ash removal as well as a convenient side shelf. As with all grills, we recommend keeping the firebox clean to help avoid flare up as well as using a grill cover to protect your invesent.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great for smaller families June 25, 2010
Tammie L. Grindle (Albrightsville, pa, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was surprised at how easy this was to put together took less than 30mins. The only issue I had was having to season the grill before usage , time consumeing!!! Once past that venture the how to grill/smoke/bbq instructural booklet was helpfull. As a single mom I never owned my own grill or took on the cook out chef role. Having the easy guidlines that came with this grill was so very helpfull. All in all I would purchase this again and have recommend it to my single mom friends.
 A form to build a smoker with. April 18, 2010
Dick Foster (Los Gatos California)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had no illusions that I would be able to buy a decent smoker for this kind of price but I didn't want to spend $1000+ for one nor did I want to start from scratch and build one from surplus propane tanks or 55 gallon drums either.
I also wanted something on the smaller side as there is just the two of us to cook for usually. I don't usually cook for big crowds, church groups or the whole neighborhood. Not that I'm not good enough because I'm a pretty decent cook if I do say so and most people who eat my cooking say so too.
We got one of these at our local WalMart store. I got it home, put it together and built a wood fire in the fire box to find out what it would do, exactly what it's short comings were and what extent of those shortcomings were. There were many and it was indeed pretty dismal. I could see clearly this thing was, as I suspected it would be, a piece of junk the moment I opened the box.
After doing some research on the web and reading up on several modifications for this type offset of smoker grill, I took it to my garage and performed several modifications to it to make it function as it should. Mainly those consisted of moving the smoke stack to a location that made more sense for smoking and adding some thickness to the sheet metal so it didn't waste all the fuel put into it just to burn the paint off the outside but would use some of it for cooking instead. As it came it was only good for converting fuel to waste heat and as I said burning the paint off so it would soon soon dissolve into a pile of rusted overly thin sheet metal.
If you're the handy type and want to get one of these to use as a form to build a smoker around as I did, then go ahead and buy it. Just remember that you get just exactly what you pay for and this thing, as it comes, is just another piece of junk off the boat from China.
Don't, by any means delude, yourself into thinking you're going to buy a decent smoker for this sort of price. Buying this unit is just a start toward getting a smoker, you're not really getting a smoker. Not without some more effort on your part and spending a little more money for materials.
After I am satisfied I am finished with it and have a few more cooking sessions under my belt, I will detail everything I did to it and just exactly how on one of the sites dedicated to smoking meat. Till then if you are the handy type there are several mods detailed for the several units like this one on the web. I will just mention here that it is important to add some sheet metal if you want it to function well and last any amount of time.
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