What Is A Bbq Smoker

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The term BBQ Smoker is a bit of a strange term. This is because the term BBQ has been corrupted over a period of time.

BBQ originally described the cooking of meat over a wood fire and therefore the meat was being smoked as it was cooked. There was no need for a BBQ smoker because the BBQ was the smoker. Because barbecuing meat got so popular and with the mass migrations of people into the confinement of the cities, household BBQ grills began to get popular. The most convenient form of fuel for these BBQ grills was another BBQ product called charcoal. Later the BBQ grills began using propane gas as the primary source of heat.

As people used these BBQ grilling products they began to find that the wood smoke taste was missing. Now there was a need of a BBQ product to help bring back the wood smoke to the BBQ grill and hence the BBQ smoker term was created.

A BBQ smoker can be anything from a tray made of aluminum foil, filled with wood chips and placed on top of the grill to the ultra modern and very practical SmokePistol®. The problem with the pan of wood chips is that it takes quite a while for ...
... the heat from the BBQ grill to get the wood chips smoking and once they start the smoke lasts for a very short time period. They are also messy.

There is a new BBQ product on the market called a GrillKicker™. This little BBQ smoker will make a lot of smoke for about ½ hour and it can be started with just a match. There is no need to even light the BBQ grill to get the GrillKicker™ smoking and this permits the user to cold smoke the food before cooking it as well as smoking the food while it is being cooked. This increased smoking time imparts more of the real BBQ flavor to the food.

Another clever BBQ smoker that has been around for about 5 years is the SmokePistol (www.smokepistol.com). The SmokePistol is a smoke generator that can be attached to any BBQ grill or smoker and this little unit will produce smoke continuously for over 4 hours on a single cartridge. The cartridge can then be replaced and the smoke continues for another 4 – 5 hours. The unit also has a smoke control on it which controls the amount of smoke being delivered making it the ultimate BBQ smoker.

So the BBQ smoker is now a standard BBQ product which would have never existed except for the change in our methods of BBQ.

For more information about BBQ Smoke Generator, please visit www.outcookerproducts.com