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Posted: 8/31/2014 8:11:00 AM EDT

Anyone have experience with these? I saw one at a store on a recent trip to Alabama and wow they're built like tanks! But do they really perform as advertised?

I'm in the market for a new propane grill and smoker. Buying this one would almost bust the budget for getting both but if it really works they way they say it does it might be worth it.

Cajun Express Smoker

ETA: I've tried to embed a youtube video three times and each time the screen locks up and I have to close it. Not sure what's going on but there is the cold link to youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJec25-8u80

Posted: 8/31/2014 8:14:06 AM EDT

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No experience, but as a fat man, I could endorse it.

Posted: 8/31/2014 8:15:49 AM EDT

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Baby back ribs in 30 minutes?

Yes please

Posted: 8/31/2014 2:05:43 PM EDT

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Bump for the early evening crew.

Posted: 8/31/2014 6:21:51 PM EDT

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Damn

Posted: 8/31/2014 6:30:16 PM EDT

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Would drastically reduce beer intake during cook. FAIL! $995 2 x FAIL!

Buy a webber smokey mountain. Thank me later.

Posted: 8/31/2014 6:33:59 PM EDT

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Oh fuck no. For the last time, Jesus get a damn Weber Smokey Mountain and be fucking done with it. How are you going to get smoke rings in a half hour? This isn't no pressure cooker verses slow cooker. There are a lot of damn steps to make good ribs, chicken, and brisket that involves more than some shitty short cooking time. You gotta add sauces, spices, butter, wrap, and or inject at different times in the cooking process. This seems to be the microwave of shitty smokers.

Do you microwave hot dogs brah? No, you don't if you want good ones. If this was a good way, all the competition guys would be using it. Do you know a $300 device that cooks winning ribs??? Yeah brah, the Weber Smokey Mountain!

Posted: 8/31/2014 6:40:21 PM EDT

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Would drastically reduce beer intake during cook. FAIL! $995 2 x FAIL!

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This man knows what he is talking about.

Posted: 8/31/2014 7:07:02 PM EDT

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All valid points.

Posted: 8/31/2014 7:50:34 PM EDT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJec25-8u80
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Posted: 8/31/2014 9:14:50 PM EDT

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Thanks,

Posted: 8/31/2014 9:26:35 PM EDT

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But I kinda like hanging around my smoker all day with a cold beer and some tunes.

This thing seems like an answer to a question no one asked.

Posted: 8/31/2014 10:10:11 PM EDT

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I am trying to figure out what the braided hose does here, in the back:

Is it connected to another burner?

Is it just some sort of bubbler, to push water, apple juice, beer vapors up into the main compartment?

When I can make it to a real computer, I'll be sure to download their brochure.

Posted: 8/31/2014 10:30:27 PM EDT

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My curiosity is getting the better of me:

I am already having visions of my plasmaCAM guy cutting out a octagon shape from a piece of say 1/8th to 1/4th inch thick steel.

The inside octagon piece becomes the back of the smoker. The piece it is cut from the middle of becomes the front:

Whatever the kerf was left by the plasma can easily get filled by the weld.

In short, the front octagon and the back octagon, together, basically become a jig to hold the bottom, sides, and top together as they are all being tacked together. Very clever, actually.

Hey, what can I say...right now, I am too cheap to spring for a Big Green Egg.

EDIT: because I am a tard at this hour...duh, octagon vs. hexagon

Posted: 9/1/2014 5:30:14 AM EDT

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No one is saying you can't do that. But at the end of the day you've quadrupled the amount of smoked meat you have to show for it.

Posted: 9/1/2014 6:08:45 AM EDT

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I am bumping this thread for the day walkers out and about surfing ARFcom on this Labor Day.

I did a google search and it appears that Bass Pro might carry these. I'll call first, but I might go check 'em out on Wednesday.

Posted: 9/1/2014 6:56:15 AM EDT

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I did a google search and it appears that Bass Pro might carry these. I'll call first, but I might go check 'em out on Wednesday.

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I have not seen them in the Bolingbrook or East Peoria stores but its been a while since I've been to either one of them.

Let me know if they have them.

Posted: 9/1/2014 7:01:21 AM EDT

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It looks like a pressure cooker, smoker, and a gas grill got together in a nasty drunken tequila love triangle and this was the pool of fuck mess that was leftover.

Posted: 9/1/2014 7:14:46 AM EDT

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Fail to see how it is a pressure cooker if it has an open hole in it venting smoke... Seems like a smoker with a gasket and a fancy door latch

Posted: 9/1/2014 7:43:14 AM EDT

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But I kinda like hanging around my smoker all day with a cold beer and some tunes.

This thing seems like an answer to a question no one asked.

No one is saying you can't do that. But at the end of the day you've quadrupled the amount of smoked meat you have to show for it.

Ehh, I dunno. I'm open to anything, I'd have to see this thing work, but still.

I get along just fine with a Weber kettle and a WSM. And holy shit, this thing is expensive, the small one is a $1000 bucks. That's a bit rich for my blood personally, if I lost all sense of reason or just had that kinda money to spend, I think I'd get a BGE and call it done.

Posted: 9/1/2014 1:54:17 PM EDT

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But I am still intrigued by the contraption in the back. In the other smoker thread that was floating around today in GD, it sounds like a lot of guys bathe their ribs/brisket/whatever in apple cider, but that means taking the meat out and wrapping it in foil. So I guess the contraption spritzes the meat with cider while still inside the Cajun Express.

Posted: 9/1/2014 2:07:23 PM EDT

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But I am still intrigued by the contraption in the back. In the other smoker thread that was floating around today in GD, it sounds like a lot of guys bathe their ribs/brisket/whatever in apple cider, but that means taking the meat out and wrapping it in foil. So I guess the contraption spritzes the meat with cider while still inside the Cajun Express.

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According to the manual on the website, that nylon hose goes into a catch bucket, to keep oily water from getting onto your deck or driveway or whatever.

Apparently it's sealed to where the smoke doesn't actually escape the cooking chamber. That I'm not sure about, seems like it may be easy to get more smoke flavor than you bargained for.

It draws moisture out of the container on the side of the thing, kinda functioning like the water pan in a bullet smoker I'd guess.

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