A cheap Aldi spoker - Bargain or not?

[piecost76]

Hi, at a place I stay in France, they have an excellent but sadly discontinued high quality Brinkmann smoker BBQ which is ace. Real old school engineering & thick steel which helps keep the temperature. I have smoked all sorts in it - chicken, beef, burgers, salmon etc. - all perfect!

So I want to replicate this at home & without spending serious money, what do we think of this for £50?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/smoker-barbecue/p/069834022...

Waste if time or good for occasional use?

Cheers!

[mrsshpub]

The cooking area doesn't look very big.

[David A]

Suspect it will be quite flimsy, really you want a holiday/buiness trip to Texas, you can then buy one of these. Take the legs off and fire box, wrap in bubble wrap and check it in as part of your hold luggage allowance. I did probably 12+ years ago and its still going strong, even the grill plates are stupidly hefty.

In short the metal is very thick and sturdy vs. UK BBQs


edit - here it is - complete with luggage tag still on!

Edited by David A on Friday 22 April 12:29

[21TonyK]

I am still debating it myself. But, I know that it will just get left outside and rust away in a year so probably won't bother Although... I do have a 6 week summer holiday to fill with food experiments so maybe?

[don4l]

I use This... in a standard BBQ. It seems to do the job just fine.

Are the ones shown above going to do a better job?

[ibisti]

don4l said:

I use This... in a standard BBQ. It seems to do the job just fine.

Are the ones shown above going to do a better job?

That's for cold smoking, the smoker in the pic is used mainly for hof smoking where the food cooks and is smoked at the same time. The one on the hot smoked site ( I have one ) is to add a smoked flavour with out cooking the product, like cheese, fish or cheese.