re: Where do you buy your grill smoker from? What brand do you have?

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What the hell do you need all that for?

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Oddly enough I use it all. We have a lot of street/culdesac parties and shite like that.

But it was all so cheap, I couldn't pass it up.

If you want cooking to be easy, get a gas grill. Pretty easy to keep clean, easy to start, etc. Especially if you want to grill burgers, chicken, steaks, etc.

UNLESS, you want it to be easy and you plan to do more smoking and not so much grilling, then get a pellet grill. You may have to turn in your man card, but it didn't bother t00F that much, it probably won't be that bad for you, either.

If you want something versatile and want to learn to cook and are interested in the process of cooking - low and slow, two zone cooking, how to build and control a fire, etc, then get a Weber kettle or a kamado grill. A Weber Performer is a great option without that costs about what a low end gas grill would cost, but gives you a nice built in table and charcoal storage right in the grill.

I have an old country smoker and a Weber kettle. Old country when I want to work all day to get great meat and a Weber if I want to set and forget and still have solid meat.

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Actually the Weber Summit Kamado is on par with any ceramic cooker and in a lot of ways a lot better than those.

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I never said it wasn't

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That's not a grill, that's a tank.

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No chance those smokers have half inch steel. They’d weigh a literal ton or more.

Also, OP asks about a smoker and then only mentions grills.

Well because I used my cheap gas grill like a smoker with 3 burners I could go indirect heat using only one burner.
I grilled on it also

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If you want something versatile and want to learn to cook and are interested in the process of cooking - low and slow, two zone cooking, how to build and control a fire, etc,

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then get a Weber kettle or a kamado grill.

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Not what I expected after reading the first part.

Kamado all the way.

Old Smokey $45

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Not what I expected after reading the first part.

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I was thinking about the versatility aspect I guess. My gut tells me he grills more than smokes and wants the option to smoke. A kettle or Kamado does great at two zone cooking, smoking, pizza, you name it.