Stlsportster
Babbling Farker
As usual, perusing the Farkbook, LetItGo, Craigslist listings for some awesome steal.
Find a guy with a Good One Open Range smoker. Now you don’t see or hear about them much on this forum but there are a few posts here and there. Decent fan following on the interwebs and good reviews from some blogs and AmazingRibs.
It’s an over/under charcoal design with a long narrow firebox running the length of the smoke box. Controlled by a damper, and a few spinner vents. Supposed to hold 10lbs of charcoal and give you about 8 hours at a rock steady temp. You can also direct grill over the firebox.
So he doesn’t have many pictures and it shows a little surface rust. He has it priced about 30% of a new one. So I connect today and go see it.
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First, it’s smaller than I thought. There are two racks in the smoke chamber. It would hold about 2-3 racks of ribs on each shelf, perhaps two briskets or 3-4 butts. I’m thinking about it for unattended cooks or for chicken and reverse searing.
He’s kept it outside uncovered. The rust on the firebox is fairly light surface rust. The grates and drip pan in the smoke chamber are rusted lightly. The firebox is another story. Both grates pretty rusted, and the ash pan is a mess. He had it out of the smoker leaning against a shed. It was soaking wet. Bottom of the ash pan was very rusted. He told me it had been sitting with ash and water in it. Damn. The spinners were tight, but not stuck so I think could be saved. He also told me one of the tires was low.
Just not sure. It sounds kinda fun. I could use the grill for kebabs or skewers like Sako does sometimes. But I don’t really need it. Might dump the propane gasser I haven’t used in a year if I pick it up...but it could be a rusted mess.
What say ye!
Find a guy with a Good One Open Range smoker. Now you don’t see or hear about them much on this forum but there are a few posts here and there. Decent fan following on the interwebs and good reviews from some blogs and AmazingRibs.
It’s an over/under charcoal design with a long narrow firebox running the length of the smoke box. Controlled by a damper, and a few spinner vents. Supposed to hold 10lbs of charcoal and give you about 8 hours at a rock steady temp. You can also direct grill over the firebox.
So he doesn’t have many pictures and it shows a little surface rust. He has it priced about 30% of a new one. So I connect today and go see it.
View attachment 173432
View attachment 173433
First, it’s smaller than I thought. There are two racks in the smoke chamber. It would hold about 2-3 racks of ribs on each shelf, perhaps two briskets or 3-4 butts. I’m thinking about it for unattended cooks or for chicken and reverse searing.
He’s kept it outside uncovered. The rust on the firebox is fairly light surface rust. The grates and drip pan in the smoke chamber are rusted lightly. The firebox is another story. Both grates pretty rusted, and the ash pan is a mess. He had it out of the smoker leaning against a shed. It was soaking wet. Bottom of the ash pan was very rusted. He told me it had been sitting with ash and water in it. Damn. The spinners were tight, but not stuck so I think could be saved. He also told me one of the tires was low.
Just not sure. It sounds kinda fun. I could use the grill for kebabs or skewers like Sako does sometimes. But I don’t really need it. Might dump the propane gasser I haven’t used in a year if I pick it up...but it could be a rusted mess.
What say ye!
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