Great Outdoors Smoky Mountain

One of my favorite propane smokers is Landmann’s Great Outdoors Smoky Mountain (also known as the GOSM). It’s superb: it is easy to maintain and can create smoked meat that tastes like it was cooked on a wood-fired smoker. Brinkmann, Cajun Injector, Masterbuilt, and Char-Broil produce similar propane models.

Before you begin a smoking session, make sure your propane tank is full; I also suggest you keep a spare full tank. There’s nothing worse than getting a good start on a turkey only to realize an hour later that your fire has gone out and there’s no propane left in the tank, much less a spare tank in the barn. Allow this to happen on Christmas Day and you’ll be stuck finishing that smoked turkey in the house. Have fun explaining that to your house full of hungry guests who fully expect to be eating that wonderful, smoke-flavored bird just like they did last year, when your turkey was the hit of the party. Yeah, been there, done that (in case you can’t tell!). You should be able to get approximately 30 hours of use from a normal 20-pound tank of propane.