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Brinkmann 28″ Barrel Style Charcoal Grill Review
The Brinkmann 28" Barrel Style Charcoal Grill is a generic device offered in similar versions by other manufacturers. This one is smallish and stripped down to the basics. It has an adjustable height charcoal tray, removable ash pan and porcelain coated steel grates.
Char-Broil American Gourmet 800 Series Charcoal Grill Review
Char-Broil's American Gourmet 800 Series Charcoal Grill is a generic barrel style charcoal grill. This same design is offered by other manufacturers. We reviewed this model and award our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Bronze Medal.
Dyna-Glo Vertical Charcoal Offset Smoker Review
Dyna-Glo's Vertical Charcoal Offset Smoker is one of the few low-cost Vertical Offsets we've reviewed. We advise readers to avoid purchasing cheap horizontal barrel offsets, but this inexpensive vertical smoker should mitigate one of the primary flaws of horizontal offsets: heat travels upward not sideways.
Dyna-Glo Dual Zone Charcoal Grill Review
The Dyna-Glo Dual Zone Charcoal Grill looks good on paper, but we are skeptical of the quality from this manufacturer. The good news in our review is that it has two, independently adjustable charcoal trays, a unique feature which could be useful, and a removable firebox divider to isolate the two zones.
Dyna-Glo Charcoal Grill Review
Dyna-Glo makes basically the same grill for Lowe's under the Master Forge label. A lot of people like it, so we went to kick the tires for this review and were sorry to find it is about as flimsy as flimsy gets. It's so cheaply constructed that it made the POJ Char-Griller on display next to it look good.
Char-Broil 30″ Charcoal Grill Review
Char-broil's 30" Charcoal Grill provides ample capacity with 527 square inches of coated cast iron cook surface.
Smoke Hollow 30″ Vertical Propane Smoker Review
Smoke Hollow's 30" Vertical Propane Smoker is a generic, low cost device. We give it our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal. Unlike many gas smokers that have cast metal round burners, this one uses a 10,000 BTU stainless steel tube burner. The wood chip tray is long and rectangular to conform to the burner.
Char-Broil 3-Burner with Side Burner Review
It's not our first choice by any means, but if you really have a tight budget, you could sure do a lot worse. Many people who own one of these economy grills seem reasonably happy to accept them for what they are – made cheap to sell cheap, earning our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Bronze Medal.
Char-Griller Akorn Kamado Cooker with Cart Review
By replacing the heavy ceramic used for thousands of years with modern lightweight materials, Char-Griller appears to have created a cooker that performs pretty close to traditional Kamados at a fraction of the cost earning our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal Award. This model comes with a small cart.
Masterbuilt Dual Fuel Smoker Review
Masterbuilt's Dual Fuel Smoker has a "Flame Disc Bowl" located above the gas burner and under the water bowl. It can be used for wood chunks when smoking with gas or, alternatively, filled with charcoal. Hence the Dual Fuel moniker. We reviewed this model and award our AmazingRibs.com Silver Medal.
Vision Professional S-Series Kamado Review
Read our review of the Vision Professional S-Series Kamado which has some unique and interesting features not found on other ceramics. Their ProZone System is a slide out ash tray with dual intake dampers and a slot for the included electric fire starter. It can also convert to a gas grill! Vision S-Series earns our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal.
Landmann Smoky Mountain 34″ Two Drawer Vertical Gas Smoker Review
The Landmann (aka Great Outdoors) 34" Two Drawer Gas Vertical Smoker features a cast brass burner with rotary ignition. Lightweight construction give a flimsy feel to this cooker. Read our review. The main door uses magnets instead of a latch and there is no insulation. We give the Landmann Smoky Mountain 34" Vertical Gas Smoker our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Bronze Medal.
Englander 21-PG100 Review
Englander's 21-PG100 Pellet Smoker was designed in conjunction with Fast Eddie Maurin, whose award winning pellet smokers are well known on the competition circuit. We reviewed this model which indeed has many similarities to Fast Eddy's PG500. Unlike most pellet smokers both the PG100 and PG500 have one direct and two indirect zones.
Cajun Fryer, AKA R&V Works, Cajun Express Smoker Review
We reviewed this unusual device. The Cajun Express Smoker is a pressure cooker with smoke. Moisture is introduced into the double walled, sealed smoke box via a patented hydration system. Wood chips create smoke within the high pressure, humid environment cooking meats quickly while imparting smoke flavor and retaining moisture.Up Your BBQ IQ By Joining The Pitmaster Club
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