- May 6, 2020
- 50
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I have a natural gas well on my property, so I've been wanting to build a permanent brick grill/smoker for years. Now that I'm getting more into smoking, I'm wanting to pull the trigger on getting it done. I want to keep it very simple and inexpensive, so I was thinking of doing something very simple.
My primary question is how I can make one vertical unit both a grill and smoker.
I had 3 thoughts...
The first is that I could put a burner in the bottom and grill down at the bottom and smoke up in the top. That would be simple to build, but then I have to grill bent over and squatting, which is certainly not ideal lol
My second thought was to make the burner adjustable, so I can move it from the top to the bottom. That would surely work, but would be a complicated build.
My third thought is to set the burner a little low, but high enough to grill, and have a removable tray with lava rocks that I could put over the burner but under the grill rack and put wood chips on it for smoke. This seems like the easiest/best plan, but would the tray with lava rocks create a diffuse enough heat to cook indirectly? Or should I make it extra wide with space that isn't over the burner, like charcoal all to one side?
My primary question is how I can make one vertical unit both a grill and smoker.
I had 3 thoughts...
The first is that I could put a burner in the bottom and grill down at the bottom and smoke up in the top. That would be simple to build, but then I have to grill bent over and squatting, which is certainly not ideal lol
My second thought was to make the burner adjustable, so I can move it from the top to the bottom. That would surely work, but would be a complicated build.
My third thought is to set the burner a little low, but high enough to grill, and have a removable tray with lava rocks that I could put over the burner but under the grill rack and put wood chips on it for smoke. This seems like the easiest/best plan, but would the tray with lava rocks create a diffuse enough heat to cook indirectly? Or should I make it extra wide with space that isn't over the burner, like charcoal all to one side?