So a friend of mine has just started RVing and told me he's going to buy a small portable electrically powered smoker to take camping. After thinking about this for a while it occurred to me that neighbors may not enjoy smelling the smoke (aroma?) for hours at a time.How do you all feel about this sort of thing?Heck, maybe it's a moot point and the thing doesn't make that much smell?

Have done it, I see no problem. What is the difference between a smoker and a roaring fire in the fire pit in the evening? Answer... nothing.

I have a small electric smoker, and the aroma is usually pretty mild. It will normally consume a full pan of wood chips in 1 to 1-1/2 hours. If he places it so the wind blows it away from other campers, he should be okay. Just needs to use a little discretion.

I would personally never pay any attention to it. I have camped next to several people who do that and never has bothered me nor have I heard anyone else complain.

The smell of a neighbor's smoker would be much more enjoyable than listening to his generator.

Smoking meat and campfires are an essential part of the camping experience IMO. Smoking meat should never be done with thick choking smoke. Ideally the smoker will have thin blue smoke coming from it.

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path1
Explorer
Feb 21, 2014
We go to this one campground that when the salmon are in alot of people smoke them right at the campground.
Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Feb 21, 2014
I'd rather smell a smoker than smell the smoke from a campfire especially a smoldering one.

You're just jealous that your noobie RVng friend thought of it :B
LynnandCarol
Explorer
Feb 21, 2014
I rarely camp in a spot where my neighbor will be close enough to chock on my smoker. I like to stay in places where smoke be it meat smoking or campfire is part of the ambiance.
Merrykalia
Explorer II
Feb 21, 2014
I think it's great to smell stuff cooking on a smoker.....especially if the owners invite me over to eat!!!
DutchmenSport
Explorer
Feb 21, 2014
No problem here. It's part of the camping experience. If we didn't smell "things" cooking, smoking, brewing, I think camping would be a little boring.
fla-gypsy
Explorer
Feb 21, 2014
Smoking meat and campfires are an essential part of the camping experience IMO. Smoking meat should never be done with thick choking smoke. Ideally the smoker will have thin blue smoke coming from it.
korbe
Explorer
Feb 21, 2014
The smell of a neighbor's smoker would be much more enjoyable than listening to his generator.
dspencer
Explorer
Feb 21, 2014
I would personally never pay any attention to it. I have camped next to several people who do that and never has bothered me nor have I heard anyone else complain.
TucsonJim
Explorer II
Feb 21, 2014
I have a small electric smoker, and the aroma is usually pretty mild. It will normally consume a full pan of wood chips in 1 to 1-1/2 hours. If he places it so the wind blows it away from other campers, he should be okay. Just needs to use a little discretion.
donn0128
Explorer II
Feb 21, 2014
Have done it, I see no problem. What is the difference between a smoker and a roaring fire in the fire pit in the evening? Answer... nothing.

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