I personally own one of these great smokers and it is the best one I have ever owned. Its design makes it easy and flexible to use. The temperature range is adjustable so that you can smoke at moderately warm temperatures or run it up hot enough to bake a turkey or roast. It has a large water bowl for water smoking if you like that and a big enough chip tray to smoke for hours and there is no need for those chip pucks or pellets that other manufacturers use, meaning that I can buy or get my wood chips just about anywhere. I have smoked everything from trout to 22 lb turkeys in mine and everything tasted fantastic.