Americana Stainless Steel Charcoal Water Smoker

Haven't had a chance to use the smoker yet ----- but my husband is very happy with it and it has more features than the one he had previously found ----- Thanks

The pluses here are price and ease of assembly, even for me. The smoker has an outside heat guage that is convenient, if general: the settings are warm, ideal and hot. So, it's not a thermometer but useful enough.Some negatives have to include cheesy material and insecure fittings that result in any number of leaky spots, even along seams. The smoker has a vent, but you don't really need it because of the ill fitting parts. My biggest complaint, though, is the material itself, because the thing is so lightweight that cooking in a stiff enough wind might be an invitation to a conflgration.Ok, I guess, if you are an occasional enthusiast, but for those who are serious about outdoor cooking, skip this and step up and spend some money like I'm fixing to do.

Stainless steel great improvement. Classic design as good as ever. Always been my favorite. But aluminum sliding door jams due to differential heating of metals. Included recipe book not good. I made smoked turkey that called for salting meat prior to cooking and oiling carcass. Produced inedible salted turkey, not much smoked flavor.

There is truly not a way to control the heat and if you have a breeze/wind all the smoke and heat just blows out the bottom. It would be extremely helpful if there were an actual temperate gauge, not just a heat indicator, which really does nothing at all. No matter what the indicator never went above the warm reading.I'm a personal chef and pretty crafty and creative, but this just don't work.

I will be using the smoker for everything that I like to smoke!

Very well made stainless steel smoker. Could have been made by an aircraft mfg co.....

Easy to assemble. Heavey gage steel

Lid fits too tight for charcoal to be able to get air to hold ideal temperature. Quality of stainless steel isn't what we expected.