This topic brings up a funny memory for me... had been making sausage for about 12 years and always brought it in to a meat locker in Casselton to have it smoked. I never thought much of it, I did not have a smoker, didn't know anything about smoking. Met my wife and was planning the sausage and I brought up bringing it in to have smoked and she asked why not just do it yourself? That was probably about 1999, so I made a fridge smoker, we smoked sausage and everything went fine but now we had this smoker and were looking at only using it a few times a year. It was then we both decided we had to look into what other uses we could get out of a smoker. Since then we both totally dived in heads first into learning all we can about smoking, BBQ and grilling!