Home made smoker

[Benton]

(03-01-2021, 04:29 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Last time I got a 55 gallon drum to use to burn trash I could not even cut a hole in the bottom of it.  Those things are tough as shit.

I ended up using my .38 to make some vent holes in the bottom.

Oh yeah, those things last forever. I remember my grandparents had the same barrel they burned garbage in for 30+ years. Thing stood up to heat, rain, whatever.

(03-01-2021, 07:47 PM)Sled21 Wrote: The sell them.....  https://pitbarrelcooker.com/collections/cookers

They do, but some people like the challenge of making one. Personally, I just replace my cannister smoker whenever the bottom rusts out. But I get where people like to make their own. For those folks, it's hard to find a "food grade" kind of a drum that doesn't cost as much as just buying a decent smoker.