A steel drum and a few plumbing parts make up this no-weld smoker you can build with just a few hours of work. Add meat and smoldering wood—and get ready to feast. By Joe Kohl-Riggs Updated: Jul ...

I constructed my smoker out of 10-ga. sheet steel on a frame of 1-in. thinwall square tubing. One caution about barrels--unless you can acquire a genuine food-grade barrel, make your own.

This no-weld plan shows you how to build a smoker out of a 55-gallon drum. Ugly Drum Smokers (or UDS for short) are just what they sound like: ugly. And made out of a 55-gallon drum.

The Pit Barrel Cooker takes its simple design inspiration from the “Ugly Drum Smoker”, whose enthusiasts build their own cookers out of steel storage drums that produce “absolutely amazing ...