Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker | Weber 721001

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The Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker (a.k.a. the Weber Bullet) is a no frills, easy to use smoker grills appropriate for the novice or occasional food smoker.  The Weber Bullet uses a charcoal-based wet smoking system to make sure you meat, fish, or vegetable stay nice & moist during deep flavor smoking.

Weber is America’s best known barbecue grill company and has a solid, long-standing reputation for making quality charcoal and gas grills.  Since fewer people smoke food than barbecue, Weber smoker grills are not as widely known as Weber barbecue grills.  Still, he Weber smoker is known in food smoker community for providing excellent, affordable barbecue grills AND smokers for over 100 years.

The Weber 72101  smoker is very simple to use.  This Weber smoker uses a  time-tested charcoal, wet smoke method to cook your food.

First, simply add one half of a chimney measure  charcoal briquettes to the charcoal grate.  Light the other half chimney measure of briquettes while they are still in the chimney. Allow these to burn down for 5 to 10 minutes or so, until they to a red glow, then add them to the unlit charcoal briquettes on the grate.
Next add water and/or apple juice to the 2 gallon porcelain-enamel water pan. Make sure you’ve pre-lined the water pan with a double layer of aluminum foil, for easy clean-up.  Then you can also easily remove one foil layer while you’re cooking.

Place your food on the two large 17 inch smoker grill racks.

Finally add about  4 to 6 fist-sized pieces of smoking chips on top of the charcoal.

That’s really all there is to it!  One full load of charcoal briquettes lets you slow smoke your food for about 3 to 5 hours.

Also, many reviewers reported great results dry-smoking food by leaving the water pan empty. Then using a spay bottle to moisten their food with water and/or apple juice throughout the cooking process.

The Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker has a unique bullet-shape (thus its nickname, the Weber Bullet).  This Weber smoker is cleverly designed that way to make sure air and smoke constantly swirl and circulate around your food.  This lets the heat and smoke flavor is cook into your food deeply and efficiently.
You can further control cooking temperature and smoke amount of this weber smoker by adjusting the rust-proof vents located on the top of the lid and the bottom of the smoker base. Also, the built-in thermometer lets you easily track temperature during the entire cooking process.  As always, we recommend that you also use an external food temperature.

During smoking you will want to monitor your charcoal, wood, and water.  As they burn down, simply add more.  The large, spring-loaded and latched side door with a lever-handle lets you do this very easily.  Remember to use safety tongs when adding charcoal & wood.  Also the convenient ash tray makes clean-up really easy, too.

Even though this is a no-frills smoker, it is large enough to for most smoking duties.  The Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker is big enough to smoke both large turkey and a big ham, at the same time.

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Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker 18-1/2 Inch Smoker Grill Features, Specifications & Dimensions

~ Features & Specifications

• Weber 721001 Smokey Mountain Cooker Weight: 52 lbs
• Construction: Exterior & Interior – Heavy Gauge Steel With Porcelain Enamel Finish
• Cooking Capacity: 466 square inches; 2 racks (17.5″ diameter & 17″ inch diameter)
• Limited 10 Year Product Warranty:
  • Cooking / Charcoal grates 2 years
  • Bowl and lid against rust / burn-through 10 years
  • Nylon handles 10 years
  • All remaining parts 2 years

~ Dimensions:

• Exterior – 19 inch width x 19 inch depth x 41 inch height
• Interior – Top grill shelf – 17.5 inch diameter, bottom grill shelf – 17 inch diameter
• Combined Rack Area – 468 square inches

Weber  Smokey Mountain Bullet Smoker Grill Reviews:

After intensely combing the internet and speaking to our own local community of BBQ smoker grills fans we were able to put together over 100 reviews for the Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker 18-1/2 Inch BBQ Smoker Grill– both online and offline.

Over 90% of the reviewers gave the Weber 721001 smoker grill their highest rating.  About 8.5% gave this Weber smoker their second highest rating.

By far, the most frequent comment was how easy this weber smoker grill was to use, especially for grillers that are new to smoking food. Many said that this barbecue smoker was one of the easiest they’ve ever used and that the quality of the smoked food was very high and flavorful.

Many complimented Weber on the improvements they’ve made to the Weber 721001 since the original version.  These include the wider spring loaded side door, the built-in thermometer, and ash catch pan.

Most reviewers also reported that assembling the Weber smoker grill out of the box was very easy and “no problem”.

The few negative reviews concerning poor customer service experiences with the Weber helpline.  However these appeared to be very isolated events.  It seem that over the years the Weber  Smokey Mountain Cooker has built a large following of loyal users.

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With the 90% 5 star ratings and 8.5% 4 star ratings we found for the Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker and the huge following of happy, long time users, we are very confidently recommending this smoker to anyone looking for easy to use, no frills smoker grills.

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