The Smokey Mountain Cooker is a vertical charcoal smoker with a deserved reputation: it holds 225 degrees for ten or twelve hours with almost no babysitting, which is why it turns up on competition barbecue circuits next to smokers costing five times as much.
Two 18-inch cooking grates stack a pork butt over a rack of ribs, roughly 481 square inches of space in total. The water pan between the charcoal and the food buffers the heat and keeps the chamber humid, and the built-in lid thermometer plus adjustable dampers let you steer the temperature without opening the door.
Bowl, center section and lid are porcelain-enameled steel. Weber manufactures its charcoal grills and smokers in the United States.
