hahabogus wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> Question about smoking, and I'm serious, does it create a
>> lot of smoke, like the whole neighborhood gets smoked out,
>> or knows you're smoking something?
>
> Well there is a smouldering fire...so I'd say yes anybody in the
> general area would know somebody was smoking; just like anybody would
> know if you had a fireplace lit or were BBQing. But no column of
> smoke visible for miles kinda thing. Your neighbours wouldn't need
> gasmasks or be anymore put off than if you BBQ and they could smell
> that. I sit beside my smoker..well maybe a foot away, so there can't
> be that much smoke (I have lung problems...remember). But there are
> small clouds of smoke, but not dense thick choking clouds...more
> along the lines of campfire clouds of smoke.

Thanks! I've wondered about that anyway, if I got a smoker would
it annoy the neighbors, but what actually prompted me to ask is that
one of my not-so-close neighbors has been burning wood for days to
the point it's smoking out like a half an acre. Much thick smoke.

Don't know what they're doing and thought If that's what smoking
food is like, it's not for me.

>Your neighbors could
> still enjoy thier backyard...hell you could enjoy your back yard. A
> more common complaint might be you drank too much beer and got rowdy
> while tending the smoker.

(laugh) Not likely.

> PS No the fire trucks won't be racing to your door...not THAT much
> smoke.

Heh. I wouldn't want that. Thank you!

nancy