Todd Phillips
TVWBB Pro
Is by far my most valuable cooker! That's right. Valuable! If I could only keep one, It would be Joe. How did I come to have this epiphany you ask?
Here is my at home setup plus a Primo XL that is built into the backyard.
I also have my catering and comp trailer
So let's break this down!
1) Primos $2000.00 Super versatile but they are a 300lbs fish bowl waiting to shatter. Takes a long time to move around temps. Does not like being moved
2) WSM $400.00Great bang for the buck barrel smoker. Just not that easy to chuck it in the car and go. Kind of a production to get it up and running and breaking it down. Not your guy for hot and heavy or single idems
3) Viking Gravity $4000.00 Outstanding cooker, Set it,feed it, and then walk away. 600lbs and only good for one temp/style of cook at a time. Half to run a Guru
4) Full size kettle $100-300.00Greats invention ever. Nothing you can't do on it. Just not on the mobile side and can be a fuel hog for the long run.
Now, for the Smokey Joe! $30.00 Very,very very compact and mobile. I half to carry very little to do everything all of they above do. Super easy and fastest grill out there to control and adjust temps. With one little pot I can make it a double stack smoker that will get me 5-6hrs of cook time direct or indirect. Fits most pizza stones. Fits up to 9inch cast iron skillets under the lid with handles. Fits most woks. IMO it cooks a better steak and spatchcock chicken then my Primo and Performer due to the grate height. Really nothing you can't do on it. So with all that being said and Im sure there a ton of people on here who could add more value to the Joe then I can. It's just the one I won't give up
Here is my at home setup plus a Primo XL that is built into the backyard.
I also have my catering and comp trailer
So let's break this down!
1) Primos $2000.00 Super versatile but they are a 300lbs fish bowl waiting to shatter. Takes a long time to move around temps. Does not like being moved
2) WSM $400.00Great bang for the buck barrel smoker. Just not that easy to chuck it in the car and go. Kind of a production to get it up and running and breaking it down. Not your guy for hot and heavy or single idems
3) Viking Gravity $4000.00 Outstanding cooker, Set it,feed it, and then walk away. 600lbs and only good for one temp/style of cook at a time. Half to run a Guru
4) Full size kettle $100-300.00Greats invention ever. Nothing you can't do on it. Just not on the mobile side and can be a fuel hog for the long run.
Now, for the Smokey Joe! $30.00 Very,very very compact and mobile. I half to carry very little to do everything all of they above do. Super easy and fastest grill out there to control and adjust temps. With one little pot I can make it a double stack smoker that will get me 5-6hrs of cook time direct or indirect. Fits most pizza stones. Fits up to 9inch cast iron skillets under the lid with handles. Fits most woks. IMO it cooks a better steak and spatchcock chicken then my Primo and Performer due to the grate height. Really nothing you can't do on it. So with all that being said and Im sure there a ton of people on here who could add more value to the Joe then I can. It's just the one I won't give up
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