{"id":6559,"date":"2016-05-05T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extraordinarybbq.com\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:11:48","slug":"the-red-box-smoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extraordinarybbq.com\/the-red-box-smoker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Box Smoker Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wes

When I saw Mark Lambert<\/a> post a picture of his new Red Box Smoker, I immediately knew I had to have one. A good friend of mine – and frequent contributor to this site – Wes, has been in the market for a smaller smoker for some time now. I thought maybe we had finally hit the jackpot.<\/p>\n

I was right.<\/p>\n

First of all, I have to point out to those of you that will be purchasing this smoker and having it shipped – don’t worry – the packaging is solid, secure, and very impressive. I didn’t have to ship mine – I bought mine direct at the St. Louis BBQ Store<\/a>. Ron and his guys always take great care of me. But I had to take a few pics just to show you how impressed I was with the packaging. It also comes with some basic instructions on how to get your RBS all set up and ready to smoke.<\/p>\n

\"Wes

When Wes and I burned it out to season it, we had zero issue getting the temperature up above 300. With no water in the pan, in fact, we had it above 400 degrees for awhile. Because the RBS has the removable water pan, you can really control the temp and cook however you want.<\/p>\n

\"Wes

For our first cook, we really wanted to keep it clean, so we simply put an aluminum pan of water underneath our pork butt. This actually worked great. It caught the drippings and kept the cooking temp around 225-250 the entire cook. I can confidently say you will have no issue getting 6-8 hours on one load of coals, with your cooker at 250 or less.<\/p>\n

\"Wes

The pork butt turned out GREAT. We have since cooked chickens, more pork, ribs, wings and sausage on the RBS and it handles everything great.<\/p>\n

\"Wes

This cooker is just the right size for the backyard cook that wants to cook a couple of pork butts, or a couple of whole chickens, or a few racks of ribs…for the cook that wants competition quality performance, but doesn’t need the capacity…for the cook that wants to try direct cooking by removing the water pan, but also loves it low and slow…for the cook that doesn’t have a ton of room to store a huge cooker and wants to lift his smoker by himself without a trip to the emergency room…for the cook that wants a portable smoker to take with him camping, or to a park, or on vacation…and for the cook that doesn’t want to drop two grand on a smoker.<\/p>\n

Do you understand what I’m trying to say? THIS…is one flexible cooking machine. If you fit any of the above descriptions, I would absolutely recommend the Red Box Smoker to you without hesitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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