Recommend me an inexpensive electric smoker

[41magsnub]

It is time...

What I will use it for primarily is wild game.  I'll probably bring home ~50 pheasants, sharptail grouse, and huns over the course of this season and hope to tag a couple of antelope this weekend.  Maybe a deer later on in the season as well.

I'm looking at a masterbuilt 30" model.  I'm not overloaded with space for something overly elaborate.

Any thoughts or recommendations?

[Scout26]

I'll probably bring home ~50 pheasants, sharptail grouse, and huns over the course of this season and hope to tag a couple of antelope this weekend.  Maybe a deer later on in the season as well.

Let me be the first to say "I hate you".  I couldn't get the STBX to agree to allow Robert to go on the youth deer hunt, and I probably won't get out to go deer hunting.  I *might* be able to take Robert Pheasant hunting once or twice this winter.

[41magsnub]

I should be looking at gas smokers too.  Charcoal is out, too much babying tweaking required.

[K Frame]

"I should be looking at gas smokers too."

Gas creates water vapor when it burns, which interferes with the smoke doing what you want it to do to the meat.

Stick with electric, such as a Brinkman. They're really inexpensive.

If, however, you want to go fiddleless charcoal, and are willing to pay for it, go with a ceramic smoker, such as a Big Green Egg.

Castlekey has one of them. They are VERY precise, can hold a fire and exact temperature for hours, and provide an excellent end product.

But they are NOT cheap.

[charby]

My cousin has a masterbuilt one, he likes it. He said you have to keep it out of the weather when not in use.

I'm actually thinking about one also.