So, this thread is about smokers, smoking, and beautiful women...
Anyhow...
I have 3 smokers in my "fleet"

:
-Little Chief electric
-Oklahoma Joe offset stick/charcoal burner
-Charbroil analog insulated electric
The Charbroil analog electric is the newest; and it may outpace the Okie Joe as my workhorse, time will tell; I picked it up last month when Charbroil had a site sale for $159 and free shipping. So, far I'm very impressed with it for the cheap thing that it is. It has an amazing dynamic range. I got it up to near 400° in outside temps of 40° (no wind) and ran it steady as low as 135° for 2 hrs in the same weather. My main reason for the purchase was to get something economical that would let me pasteurize my jerky and snack sticks directly, without having to use the oven to flash roast at higher temps.
The Little Chief is a jerky machine, pure and simple, but it has a tough time keeping things safely heated in colder weather. It only has a 250 W element, whereas the new Charbroil is 1,200 W. That said, it really is the perfect, point solution for making jerky; since it runs at such a low, consistent, temperature: 165° in mild outdoor conditions. However, that same trait betrays it for cooking larger cuts of meat safely.
Okie Joe is a mass produced version of their classic offset smoker design, and it does great; I've made many memorable meals with it; but it's for those less busy days where you can babysit it and keep feeding it fuel and tweaking the vents.
Here's some pics showing temps in the new Charbroil electric, and lastly, a chuck roast I did in the Oklahoma Joe.
