Orion 19inch Bullet Smoker


 
Garvin R

Garvin R

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Looks like Orion Cookers have branched out into bullet smokers! 19inch Diameter cooker all stainless.

Garvin
 
Had one of the original Orion's years ago. Great build quality and surprisingly good results for what it was.

*EDIT* After watching*- Not for me, too gadgety, too many parts, don't like the two part lid, and I'm just annoyed as to how he says "chiminey".
 
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As cool as $500 stainless steel, integrated hanging rack and 19" grates sound: That cooker does not look like I could take it out of the box, assemble, load with a pork shoulder, go to bed and wake up to wrap my pork butt. After using WSMs - that's my expectation for a stock charcoal cooker.

The ball valve drain might be some maintenance and I am scratching my head over the charcoal chamber's capacity. My 14" WSM can hold way more than that 19" cooker in terms of fuel capacity - unless I didn't understand the video.
 
The original Orion is quite interesting and took me a while to figure out how it could possibly smoke / cook food with a sealed chamber and coals on the outside. Sort of like pressure smoking. I kept seeing people using lighter fluid and was like ***? There was a cheap used one for sale by me a few years ago and I should have bought it just to play with it.
 
Nothing looks better than a brand new stainless steel appliance right out of the box. In addition to the comments above, I can foresee what weather, smoke and fat is going to do to it after a couple of cooks. No thank you.
 
Heating element looks small. Be interesting to see it cook. That being said Weber really needs to do a stainless kettle like the OG George’s kettle with red stand. If they did it right I couldn’t turn it down.F794CA26-C4A4-40A8-87C4-FB3BF00B6C31.jpegBD91BA68-759F-44C2-8FD4-3FDCF0A95968.jpeg
 
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C Lewis said:
*EDIT* After watching*- Not for me, too gadgety, too many parts, don't like the two part lid, and I'm just annoyed as to how he says "chiminey".
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The middle section overlaps the base section, & the top section overlaps the middle section.
I bet he has grate fun cleaning the outside of that ..........'thing'. Not!!
No thanks.
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Pass. I have spent a lot of time with southerners playing Bluegrass Music for over forty years but this yokel makes me want to run screaming into the night! there’s 8 minutes of my life I will never get back.
Not a fan of the design either, cleaning it will be miserable, the ball valve is ridiculous, the riveted top vent will be fine until it isn’t. No, this is definitely a “No Sale” for me.
The guy needs to learn how to edit and might need a writer as well. What A waste! Chiminey 🤪!
 
It looks okay, I guess. I'd be curious how long a burn you can get on one load of charcoal. More than a load and it'd be pretty hard to put back together. The ball valve looks like it's just there to drain water. A lot of insulated cabinet smokers use them as vents.
 
As a vent in an insulated unit the ball valve makes perfect sense but, I hate to think just how foul that would get when used with water. The grease would be revolting.
 
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