Weber Q smoking help

Points:

A- you can't cook slow enough
B- you have zero temp control because of the gaping holes around it
C- you cannot properly smoke anything in it. Even of you get a chip smoker set in there, it givea a little flavor to whatever you GRILL, but that's not the same thing.

Buy or build a real smoker and you'll be allot happier

I'm working with a local fabrication shop to build a hitch carrier for my Weber Smokey Mountain. That should be a great smoking solution while camping. I've got plenty of smokers, but the WSM is still my favorite.

I like my little weber Q that I use for camping, but it doesn't do low and slow, or smoking in any real way. I've found for ribs and stuff, I can generally get good results slow baking them in my dutch oven for awhile,then using the grill just to sear them immediately prior to eating.

The camping time of year is tough on my diet to say the least. I'm staying in this week to avoid the crowds, but my next weekend trip has baby back ribs on the menu, along with dutch oven baked potatoes and corn on the cob, followed up by peach cobbler, alamode of course. The things you have to do while camped high in the mountains, it's a rough life....

GrumpyGator wrote:
The Weber Q is a grill, not a smoker. Big difference.

X2. No way to "smoke" meat on a grill such as the weber Q that I know of. Too small, will get too hot under the top, hard to control temps, etc.

The Weber Q is a grill, not a smoker. Big difference.

It is not two burners, but one continuous burner. I don't know of any way to stop half of it without doing it permanently