Char-Broil Gas Smoker

After unpacking this product, we had to pack it back up and lug it back to the store. The top was dented, the side was dented and the door didn't even fit right. DO NOT BUY.

Was easy to install and cooked great..... First time using I cooked a whole chicken, a boston butt and a rack of ribs... All three meats tasted sooo good.... Only thing is the manual said the water pan would hold water up to 4-6 hours.... In my case It was every one hour that I had to refill. But overall its worth every penny.

You will get what you pay for with this smoker. While it does work, it requires constant attention to maintain proper water & temperature levels. The all-in-one water & wood chip pan is a terrible design. With water in the pan, temperature will not go above 200 even on high. The water rapidly boils away (30-45min.) regardless of what the burner is set on. When more water is added, the temperature plummets until it starts to boil. If you let the water pan go dry, then the temperature will easily go above 275 even on low. It is easy to overfill the water pan and have water spill all over the burner, potentially putting out the flame. Forget about adding more wood chips, as they sit in the middle of the water-pan. There are better smokers to be had for a few dollars more.

was looking to pick up a smoker for about a yr. for the various game and fish we harvest. was shopping in the garden section and saw this smoker was listed for 139.00 normally but as I guess August is an off time or someone had made an error one of the boxes or perhaps the box being dirty on the outside had been marked down down to $74.00. We checked the box and it seemed factory sealed, so I brought it to the Courtesy Counter rather than the register and had them summon a manager. He checked it out and authorized the sale. Anyway got it home and took a day then assembled the unit the directions where straight forward. The unit itself was missing two nuts that were not in the sealed parts pack, One a nut that held the burner unit in place upon assembly, no biggie I had one of my own and in fact when crushing the box the missing nut fell out of the folded flap. The other (a one way) was one that should have been on the back of the "Chair-Broil Logo Plate" on the inside of the door. so much for quality control. Anyway fired it up after coating it down w/ cooking spray the temp is hard to maintain if you rely on the door gauge because the door thermometer is as others have stated OFF BY ABOUT 50 DEGREES, so you will need a decent oven rack one and that's what I used. The trail run I smoked three racks of ribs and sausages. I have no idea why the company would not make a unit with one that was accurate, but hey for the price I got it at it's good. I would say that they should include at least five shelves not three as if you want extra they sell them for like 40 bucks a pop. In summation I would say to totally cover the water /chip pan in tin foil prior to each use & then coat that two w/ cooking spray and keep the pan full of liquid as it's a hard to clean out if you let the thing run dry But over all I would say that this product although it does what it's supposed to is slightly overpriced at $139.00, and should retail for no more than $109.00, but that's me. Also there's no instruction guide for smoking things even a basic one would be a start so you'll have to get the stuff off the internet if your a starter like me.

Its a real pain to assemble. 6 pages of safety warnings with 1 page of use instructions. Apparently the only safe place to use it is in the middle if a football field otherwise you will be to close to something and violate the clearance restrictions. The door is difficult to open once the unit gets hot. Having said all that, the jerky and pork sholder I cooked turned out very well.