Char-Broil Vertical Gas Smoker, Black

I bought this for Christmas and it arrived December 19th so I had time to break it in with a rack of St. Louis Ribs for familiarization. Proceeded to smoke a Rib-eye Roast for Christmas dinner and have subsequently smoked salmon, whole trout, Baby Back Ribs, bratwurst and duck breast. It is really easy to operate, although it does run a little hot, closer to 275 than to 225 which I would prefer. Only real negative is that it arrived in damaged packaging and as a result there was damage to the lower edge of the main box body that I am afraid will rust fairly quickly due to loss of paint in that area. It could definitely have been better boxed for shipping.

Delivery driver left the box in my driveway in front of the garage door. The box looked like its traveled through a war zone. Product was not as damaged as I expected, but not in perfect shape. the bottom and door were dented making assembly difficult. Where the legs screws are to be tightened it has limited space due to welded shelf rack in the way. I've used it twice so far, the temp is a little hard to keep consistent and the igniter has worked once out of many many attempts. Ended up using a candle lighter. Food taste great but will take some getting use to trying to maintain a good temp.

I like the smoker a lot! I've used it multiple times every weekend since it's arrived! Although it arrived damaged. It was shipped VIA FedEx and isn't Char-Broils fault but it was pretty banged up cosmetically. Hasn't changed the way the smoker works.

Excellent product well made and the food taste great!!

works beautifully. does not get too hot so no need to worry there. The biggest thing was the water was gone in no time. Then read the Manuel page 6 Put the wood chips or chunks in the bowl not the water! water goes around the wood chips. LOL was funny how many was doing it the same as us. WRONG WAY,