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American Barbecue Systems Pit-Boss Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

American Barbecue System's Pit–Boss is a large capacity smoker suitable for residential and commercial use. Read our review here.

American Barbecue Systems Bar-Be-Cube Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

American Barbecue Systems Bar-Be-Cube is a charcoal cabinet or vertical smoker with a couple neat design twists. Read our review.

Cookshack SuperSmoker Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Read our review of the Cookshack SuperSmoker which is a mid-sized model with a 750 watt 7 amp heating element.

Kamado Joe Big Joe Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Kamado Joe BigJoe is a well crafted ceramic cooker that presents strong competition to other models. We award it our Best Value Gold Medal

Primo Large Round Kamado Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

The Primo Large Round Kamado is a high quality ceramic cooker. This model gets our AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal.

Stump’s XL Stretch Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Stump's XL Stretch smoker is a large, commercial capacity gravity fed charcoal smoker suitable for commercial use. Read our review here.

Stump’s Baby XL Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

As the name indicates, Stump's Baby XL is slightly larger than their popular Baby gravity feed charcoal smoker. A Gold Medal goes to Baby XL.

Stump’s Baby Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

The Stump's Baby is their smallest gravity feed charcoal smoker. Read our review. An AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal goes to this Baby.

Camp Chef Explorer EX60LW Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

We reviewed Camp Chef's Explorer EX60LW which is one of their most popular outdoor cooking systems. It earns our Gold Medal Award.

Masterbuilt 30″ Electric Digital Stainless Steel Smokehouse Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Read our review of the Masterbuilt 30" Electric Smokehouse here. It's loaded with bells and whistles we appreciate.

Cookshack AmeriQue Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Cookshacks are the gold standard for electric smokers earning our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medals. Read our review of the AmeriQue.

Char-Broil Classic 480 Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Many people have and seem happy to accept this grill for what it is – made cheap to sell cheap and hopefully last at least a few years.

The Good-One Marshall Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

The Good-One Marshall is a big combo grill and smoker recommended for hunting clubs, tailgating, competitions, or light commercial use.

The Good-One Patio Junior Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Read our review of this cleverly designed charcoal unit that uses the same concepts of an offset smoker, but it works better.

Ole Hickory Ace BP Review

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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester

Unlike Ole Hickory's large smokers with rotating carousel shelves, the Ace BP has three slide out, 26.5" x 26.5" nickel-chrome cooking racks.

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