Vertical Smoker With Side Fire Box

Benefits of using a vertical smoker.

Vertical smoker with side fire box.

The char griller e1224 can be used as a grill and a smoker convenient for anyone that wants to not only smoke their food. Don t sit them directly on top of your coals just yet. So if you put on six slabs of ribs some will be done way sooner than the others. Once your coals are lit dump them out of the chimney smoker into the fire box.

On the other hand using a vertical smoker offers greater temperature control. Electric smokers are essentially box smokers or vertical smokers with a steel hot plate for thermal generation. The space provided by the char griller e1224 is split with 580 sq in for the main cooking area and 250 sq. These vertical smokers are designed that you can add more wood than you need and with the insulation plate separating the firebox and main chamber you will not get fast temp swings or falloff when the smoker is running low of wood.

Because there is no burning there is no cellulose lignin char or even oxygen combusted there are no combustion gases. It is a good idea to dump them on the far side of the fire box so you don t have to keep reaching over the fire when tending to it. This offset smoker belongs to the classic horizontal group with a firebox on the left side and a 2 wheel system on the bottom for more portability. For this i would recommend you get the masterbuilt electric smoker which is also in our top brands post.

These verticals react very slowly to changes in temps and wood inputs making for a more relaxing cooking experience. You can easily raise or lower the temperature of a vertical smoker to achieve the sweet spot for your meats and veggies. Most pitmasters will agree that controlling the temperature is more difficult with a horizontal smoker. Of cooking space over 5 chrome plated cooking grates through the main vertical smoking chamber this vertical design also features 6 chrome plated hooks at the top of the smoking chamber to hang sausages hams racks of ribs and other large items.

Place a couple of pieces of the wood you plan to smoke in the fire box. It weighs a total of 57 pounds which is great considering its total cooking surface of 800 square inches. So heat and smoke exit the firebox on one side and try to go up making the side of the cooking chamber next to the firebox much hotter than the side next to the chimney. Inches for the side firebox.