Question: What is a smoker?
Answer: A smoker is an apparatus that provides a temperature controlled, smoky environment for the smoking of food. A smoker is a piece of cooking equipment for making barbecue. Now there are lots of different kinds of smoker from small electric units to large smoker rigs big enough to feed an army, literally. Smokers are powered by a wide variety of fuels from electricity, propane or natural gas, wood, charcoal, and pellets. Regardless of the fuel the job of a smoker and the person who tends it is to maintain a stable smoking temperature some where around 225 degrees F. Their must also be smoke. The traditional smokers burn wood to create both heat and smoke and cook your food. Electric smokers need to have wood added to a heated chamber to produce smoke. Technically any piece of cooking equipment that can hold a low temperature for several hours and create smoke is a smoker.
