TYPES OF GRILLS AND SMOKES: CONSIDERATION OF THE PROS AND CONS

Cooking meat in the outdoors, whether it be grilling, smoking, barbequing or over a campfire, is a great way to prepare meat of all types, including venison. Outdoor cooking has become so popular that there are now dozens of different styles of backyard grills and smokers available. There are also several different ways that many of these can be used to achieve the kind of flavor and tenderness that you might be looking for, so shopping for a new grill or smoker can be confusing and difficult. To complicate things further, there are now grill/smoker combinations that offer more than one heat source on the same unit to prepare products simultaneously with different cooking methods.

To help clarify things a bit, let’s consider the pros and cons of some of the most common grills and smokers currently available. Before you start shopping, however, consider how you will be using the unit. This will help to avoid getting caught up in the excitement of viewing the “latest