[QUOTE=Slab Slinger;3942696]Hmmm. I didn’t know they were getting bad reviews. Just sounds like a cool name to me!! The few reviews I’ve seen on Academy are kind of neutral. I will have check out the reviews on Walmart.
I've been looking at those Bradley digital smokers, they seem to get really good reviews. The biggest drawback to me is they require the briquettes you have to buy from them. Uses one briquette every 20 minutes and they ain't cheap compared to wood chips or pellets. It is nice you can load it and it will smoke 9 hours continually without any tending. Also, the few bad reviews are really bad, complaining mostly about poor heating elements and the door and handles falling off. Nothing built to last anymore it seems like.