I've had this before. Omg. Next level

on "Ask this old house" there was a guy that said he needs to refill his propane tank every two weeks.
sounded completely insane to me. Anyone that uses propane ever needed to refill their tank anywhere near that fast or was that just BS

There is a show on Food network (I think) that is all about bacon. The host travels around like GuyFerrari, but all the places he goes to do special bacon themes. One bar he went to in DC does a bacon night like once a month and everything was full of bacon. Even the desert was based on bacon.

I tried bacon and chocolate chip cookies. They were really good. You get the sweet with the crunchy salty flavor of the bacon. It was similar to having some sort of salty nuts in cookies

you like those salty nuts do ya?

I could see that happening. My grills large and uses a decent amount of propane. If i cooked on it once a day for two weeks straight itd be empty probably. Especially when smoking stuff. One pulled pork I did was 18 hours smoking. Went thru a whole tank.

They showed him cooking breakfast on the grill and he said he uses it all the time. Two weeks with a fair-sized grill isn't that long when it's a small tank (20 lb). I have a 40K BTU garage heater and it lasts about 12 hours when it's really cold outside, which is about right since a full 20 lb tank is good for about 430K BTU.

http://www.smokerbuilder.com/

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If you have any fab skills or know somebody that does, you can build a badass reverse flow out of scrap Propane tank, Compressor tank, Pipe and some scrap metal for cheap.

You can buy plans, or do the research yourself. There is a pit calc that will help you figure out how big all of your openings need to be. If you size everything right you will be able to get up to temp and maintain very easily and predictably.

Easily.  That's about how long mine lasts.  Figure I "grill" on it 5 days a week at 20-40 minutes each.  On the weekend it's going bbq for 4-6 hrs at a time.  So for a week I'm using it for roughly 12 hrs.   

did not think of smoking, never used my propane BBQ for that (only started smoking after I got a smoker) I guess that might be it.

 Yeah, it's not an ideal way to smoke.  I'd much rather have a wood smoker, but I don't. 

Using a gas grill does have it's advantages though, it's very easy to control the temperature, so for a beginner it's nice.  I just soak the wood in a bucket of water for a couple of hours, wrap it in foil pouch, poke some holes in the top of the foil and put it under the grates.  It works.  But it'll definitely chew up some propane.

My wife likes to grill too, but she doesn't want to deal with charcoal or wood, that's why I have a gas grill.  When you want to grill a lot, I don't think you can beat gas for the convenience.

agree, that is why I have a propane, traditional and a smoker. Coals/wood are definitely a lot more trouble, you can be done BBQing on a propane (or natural gas) BBQ before the coal is even ready.

Well, now you're just showin' off.  :)

I think I'm going to make a UDS out of a 55g drum this summer for a project.  There are a lot of sweet youtube videos.  

I may put mine on some sort of dolly so I can wheel it around.  My wife would have a caniption if I wanted to keep a 55g drum laying in the backyard.

Gas, does not grilling make. It makes for a convenient outdoor gas powered oven.
Wood, or briquettes, is grilling. How many pitmasters use gas? Uh huh. Thought so.

Yes, you can "grill" with gas.  A Pitmaster makes bbq, he doesn't grill.  

You can also use gas for bbq, you can easily put wood in a gas grill using foil or a woodbox.  Not the ideal way, but it works and it's still delicious.  

I prefer lump charcoal to briquettes. Briquettes were made popular by Henry Ford who used Model T wood scrapes and other products, including waste oil, pressed together to make briquettes. Ford Charcoal became Kingsford. Today Kingsford charcoal contains wood, anthracite and other coals, starch, borax, sodium nitrate, limestone, etc. Lump charcoal contains wood.

Gas grills are great places to store tools for your charcoal grill and smoker.