18.5" One touch and Smokenator?


 
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Hi,

The Smokenator... some folks swear by them and other folks say they are a waste of money. To each his own, I guess.

I'm trying to find out more info about this product but all anyone seems totalk about is the Smokenator 1000 for the 22.5" kettles.

But they do make them for the 18.5" kettles too. Anyone have any experience with the 18.5" version?

Thanks.
 
Yep, they have it for the 18.5. 60 bucks!

No experience with this whatsoever but reviews are good from people who own them. But very similar (or better) results can be had for much less money (using pavers, firebricks, etc., as heat shields).

Jim Lampe made an baffle that I like much better than the Smokenator, in that he blocks air from beneath the food and has an open top area for the coals. Heat control should be the same or better than the 'nator.
 
I have one. Don't use it a lot but I want to start using it a little more. Works great for me. I fill the whole thing up with charcoal and use a bigger water pan on top. It makes a real moist enviroment in the kettle. Nothing like any other way I smoke on the kettle.
I have been using the ring of charcoal for low n slow cooks, works great.
 
Due to the shipping costs to OZ ($130)I knocked this up last week for $20.Works great
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And a heat deflector
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And the results
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Smokenator held temp at 250F for 7 hrs. Ribs turned out great.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mickey M:
I guess the Smokenator for the 18.5" is not real popular.

Nobody here owns one? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

People here would, as Joel Hogston did, most likely fabricate their own "Smokenator" or use a banked coal/firebrick method than purchase the commercial version.

I would think it'd be safe to look at the results of Joel's delicious ribs from his very nice Smokenator replica to get an idea of what the actual product will deliver.
 
Mickey M, I had the smokenator for my weber kettle, and liked it, but gave it away afetr a year. You can mimic that affect cheaper on your own, and it,s very easy. Here's what yuo do...assume yuo want to bank your charcoals across one third of the charcoal tray...

Get some firebricks (I got mine from Ace Hardware online, very cheap).

Cover two-thirds of the charcoal tray (the portion of the charcoal tray that will not have charcoal on it with tin foil.

Next to the tin foil, make a wall across the charcoal grate with the firebricks.

You dump your charcoal behind the wall of firebricks.

If you want to lower the temp even more, put a foil pan on the cooking grate, above the charcoal, and fill it with water.

There you go.

There used to be some great photos of this on an old thread here...try searching for smoking on a ketytle or something like that...

This method works great.
 
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