On 15-Feb-2005, "phyteach" > wrote:

> Saw something new at Home Despot (;-)) today. It is an offset firebox
> horizontal smoker from char-broil for 150 bucks. It has ~800 (IIRC)
> square inches of cook surface, dampers, grates and all that. Anybody
> have any experience with this unit? I also noticed that the door to
> the firebox has 1/16 gap all the way around. That is, the door that
> you would add more wood, on the vertical side away from the food
> surface. Is this a bad sign? The unit appears to be made of a fairly
> heavy gauge steel. Any thoughts?
>
> Scott

Scott, you didn't mention what model name from Char-Broil is on the
cooker. I suspect it is the Char-Broil Silver which by design is exactly
like my New Braunfels Silver. (Char-Broil bought out New Braunfels)
There should be no (zero) gap around the firebox door or lid. When
you shut that cooker down it should seal up pretty good and snuff
the fire in short order. Mine does. Your comment about the vertical
side baffles me. Mine is two horizontal tanks, a larger one for the
cook chamber and a smaller one for the fire chamber. New Braunfels
used to make a 'Bandera' model that featured a vertical smoke
chamber on the opposite end from the firebox with a horizontal
cook chamber in the middle. The Char-Broil website shows only
three smokers. All are horizontal only with a firebox on the left end.


Brick (Keep the shiny side up)

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