The Army took me to TX for about three years and I fell in love with the State. True to lore, everything is bigger in TX, including the smoker I bought a year after leaving TX when I became nostalgic.
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I am super happy with my smoker. It is very heavy duty and won't go anywhere in my lifetime (hence the name). It is a wood smoker, so it requires a bit more work than a pellet smoker (from my understanding), but as Aaron Franklin of Franklin's BBQ in Austin said, part of the fun of smoking meat is getting to play with fire. I couldn't agree more.
To be fair, you pay for these smokers, but I think it's a question of value vs. price.