[RKDinOKC]

This is supposed to be a smoker roaster grill. It has a chamber to stick wood chips in for the smoking, or you can leave the chips out and roast stuff, or you can slap the grill on top and grill with or without the chips. Supposed to hold up to a 22lb Turkey. And if you roast the turkey, because it is infrared heat it is supposed to come out like it was deep fried, crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside without the mess and fuss of all that oil.

We used to have one of those grills with the lava rocks, and later added favor briquets as the lava rocks disintegrated away that we really liked. It was a little indirect but still had quite a bit of air flow. If place the flavor briquets in my current grill and it helps a little, but not all that much.

This thing has a liner with only a small hole in the bottom for juice to run into a catch can so all the heat is completely indirect or infrared. There is no air flow thru the smoker/roast/grilling area. With all the charcoal or wood smokers I've seen there is a fire box, then you adjust the temp by routing and amount of hot smoky air from the fire box thru the cooker area. This thing the gas flame heats up the metal cooker liner and there is no air exchange. The smoker box is a box inside the cooking area that hold the smoking wood chips. It's very different.