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 - Great food every time!Excellent size and easy to use. Able to hold enough fuel for several hours of cooking. Rating: - awesome!!!! My Husband's Favorite Item Ever!I purchased this item when it was a flash buy it was a good price yet still for me expensive,so i was a little leary. But, This item is great! My husband sings its praises every time he uses it. He was a great bbq chef before this brought him up one more step. Everything cooked on it comes out tender juicy and delicous. Rating: - This is one sweet little smokerI have looked for a smoker for some time, ruling out the Weber because of its price. Then my wife suprised me with the Weber 2820 for my birthday. Set up and assemby takes about 5 minutes. The shell of the smoker is a heavy guage enameled steel. The racks are sturdy and heavy guage steel also. One caveat, I normally use a gas bbq so haven't purchased charcoal for some time. Without much thought I picked up a bag of 'matchlight' type of charcoal. The manual does warn about not using lighter fluid. Well my first batch of smoked ribs had a distinct lighter fluid taste and smell. Go with the regular briquets. You can really load up the two racks with meat and fish, do use a meat thermometer to insure not over or under cooking. I didn't get this smoker with the intention of bbq'ing or steaming, so can't comment on that. But I can tell you that this in a fine little smoker!!!! Rating: - Very Good Smoker & Holds Temp PerfectlyI've never smoked before and since getting this 2 weeks ago, have smoked a ham and pork ribs. I watched how to prepare the meats and use the WSM at virtualweberbullet.com. The Weber Smokey Mountain Smoker is just awesome. I was really surprised how it holds the temperature so well. I was able to cook the ribs for 4 hours and have the temp hold around 225 degrees by adjusting the 3 vents at the bottom. Use a little Apple Wood and it will give some great flavor to the meats. I also suggest getting a wireless thermometer like the MAVERICK ET-73 that you can use to measure the meat and the air temp. Amazon shipped both at a great price. There is a larger one coming out in October. Rating: - Very pleased with the Smokey Mountain CookerI finally had the chance to use my new WSM cooker this last weekend. I cooked pork spare ribs for about 4-4.5 hours. I was surprised at how good the ribs tasted. I cooked 3 full slabs of ribs and everyone was impressed with the results. I had done quite a bit of research prior to using it for the first time, and it paid off. One note: When I received my WSM, the packaging was in great shape. However, the first time I put it together I could tell the middle section was out of round (as other reviewers have warned about). Mine was very minor and I was able to gently shape it so it was a snug fit all around. It worked great my first time cooking and I had no problems with the out of round issue after the minor correction. I would highly recommend this product for a first timer like myself who wants to get into cooking with smoke.
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