While preparing for your yearly allotment of pork and beef, check out [Brett Beauregard]’s custom heater elements he built for a DIY wood smoker. This build follows the very successful smoker ...

Many also come with an offset smoker, which has a firebox on the side for indirect heat. This is great for low and slow smoking. Choosing the best type of wood for smoking can be a bit of an art ...

For his DIY smoker, which he first came up ... A hot plate to heat a cast iron skillet (which holds your wood chips) is placed at the bottom. An aluminum pie plate with holes punched in it covers ...