There's No Need To Get A Fancy Smoker When You Can Just Smoke Meat With 500 Cigarettes
If you've been following along for long enough, then you know how much I love the craft of barbecue. Starting the fire, getting a proper trim on the meat, using a great blend of seasonings but still letting the meat do most of the talking, regulating the temperatures, understanding when you need to ramp it up or cool it off, having the feel for when that fat all renders down to the perfect point of adding a ton of flavor with a buttery texture. You can get as in depth with the actual process of cooking barbecue as you want.
But at the end of the day, smoking meat is really just about two things. Smoke + meat. It doesn't really matter how you get there, just as long as you are using smoke as your primary method for cooking the meat. It could be on an offset smoker, it could be on a kettle grill, it could be in a pellet cooker, or you could create some sort of bong chamber to use the smoke from 500 cigarettes like this guy did here.
All things considered, 500 cigarettes are probably going to end up costing you more than it would be to just go to your nearest Home Depot and grabbing the cheapest smoker they have for sale. Average price for a pack of smokes in the US is $8. 20 cigarettes in a pack. Carry the 1 and that brings you to about $200. You could probably find a janky pit and a bag of charcoal for around $150. But let's say you have an occasion coming up and you want to do something special--what better way to bring everybody together than to give your guests matching lung cancer diagnoses with some cigarette steaks? It's smoke, it's meat, that's barbecue. And at the end of the day, you're still doing more fire management than pellet smoker users.
Oh and by the way--I just want to mention here that despite how it might taste and how much cancer it might give you, the steak that was left in there for the full 500 cigarette smoke bath absolutely looked the best. It had the most color out of all of them. In fact, the control steak easily looked the worst.