For my money I had to go for the Weber Smokey Mountain. Intake vents allow a load of Lump charcoal and wood chunks to burn at steady temps up to 8 hours or more. Have done meat, seafood and chipotles. http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/ http://www.weber.com/ http://www.exit109.com/~mstevens/butt/ At 10:23 PM 5/22/2003 -0500, Cuchulain Libby wrote: >From: "Frank J. Hashek" <fhashek@comcast.net> >Subject: [CH] Smoking chiles and dead animals > > > > Hi, > > > > If anyone has any advice on smokers, I would like some input. I will use >it > > for smoking some chiles (seasonally), smoke cooking of various veggies and > > for animal carcasses. > >I have a 1628cc model from www.tejassmokers.com and a big ol' lazyq from Big >Jim at www.lazyq.com , for normal use I would recommend the 2040cc from >Tejas. A small fire or even a hotplate in the firebox should be ok for cold >smoking... > >-Hound