Char-Broil 140 755 Oklahoma Joe’s® Highland Smoker, Black Finish.,145 x 85 x 135 cm

Just amazing. Great value for money and with a few minor modifications can perform as well as far more expensive alternatives.

I have used this Oklahoma Joes Highland smoker about twice a week for the last 4 months. The product came in a very large box and is very heavy. It was well packaged and easy enough to put together. I fitted some seal around the main chamber lid to keep the smoke in better. Having never used a smoker like this before I found it a little difficult to manage the heat in the main chamber but found that I had more consistency with higher quality coals. I also fitted another thermometer and found that this helps with judging for an even cook. I have used the BBQ to smoke and grill and it works perfectly in either configuration. The fire door vents and the chimney vent can be adjusted to keep a decent set of coals going for a very long time for those all-day smokes.I did make a separate fire basket to keep the hot coals away from the outer, which works a treat. Some of the paint has come off the underbelly of the beast but a quick spray with some Hammerite bbq paint has put this right before putting it away for the winter.There is loads of room in the main chamber for cooking even really big slabs of meat. The firebox is a good size and can accommodate a full bag of charcoal and a couple of sticks if required. Overall very happy.

It arrived in one big sturdy cardboard box but it had taken some damage somewhere along its journey with a few holes & compression dents in the heavy duty cardboard which did its job & protected the unit inside.It's heavy & will require 2 people at stages of its build. The legs & wheels are the single biggest let down & have caused me frustration with the poor alignment causing the legs to not fit properly & I will have to drill new holes to fix. The wheels wobble everywhere when you move it in to place & are reminiscent of Coco the clowns car where you expect them to fall off at any given minute.Lots of screws & bolts (provided) but it's pretty straight forwards to put together (easier with two people), also benefits with the application of a food safe sealant around the joins & smoker tape around the lids of the two chambers.There's a few minor niggles that I'll straighten out over time but for the most part It's a cracking piece of kit to get in to long duration food smoking with & is a significant upgrade to my barrel smoker. It looks great in the garden & friends always remark about it when visiting. Its big enough to be able to provide enough food for 10 people (from personal experience) but you could probably do more quite easily.I've since purchased a cover for it which has been designed specifically for it & an extra thermometer as it only comes with one despite having two thermometer ports.

Brilliant product

After managing to pull off some smoked ribs on a standard BBQ, my wife thought it would be a good idea to get a proper smoker and showed me one online. So I told her I'd do some research and the Oaklahoma Joe's came up time and time again as a good entry level.I visited a place that sells BBQ's as I'd whittled my shortlist down to two (this and a char-griller) so I could see them both in the flesh (or metal in this case). I decided then that the Oaklahoma Joe's was the way to go as the steel was a bit thicker which meant it would hold it's heat better.I picked this up during Amazon Prime Day and bagged a really good bargain, it was delivered really quickly (so quick I didn't have enough time to clear space in the shed).I managed to build it up myself relatively easily by resting it on the polystyrene that protected it in transit to get the legs on. I would recommend having help when attaching the Firebox to the main smoking chamber as it is really heavy. I managed to prop it up on a chair and some polystyrene again when I bolted mine together.Make sure you season your smoker before you use it, this will get rid of any residual chemicals left over from the manufacturing process and ensure you don't spoil your food the first time you cook on it. There's videos on YouTube and you can also find a guide on the Oaklahoma Joe's website.When it comes to fuel for cooking, the benefit of an offset smoker is the ability to use real wood. I used kiln dried Oak firewood. I cut mine down to thinner splits as larger ones can smoulder instead of burn.Space! So much grill space on this thing. I managed to fit 8 racks of beef ribs on in a single cook easily. The grates are ceramic coated, non stick and very heavy. There's even grates for the Firebox so you can actually grill/sear whilst smoking.I would recommend buying a seal for around the smoke chamber door to help keep the smoke in, but I wouldn't worry too much about trying to seal every gap on the unit.There are some minor things to look out for though. The temperature differences from one side to the other are drastic, so make sure you rotate your meat during cooking.Also, you can wrap one of the grates from the Firebox in tinfoil and use this as a baffle plate where the heat enters the smoke chamber just to get the heat down a little and reduce the intensity.There are plenty of mods available for these smokers, but as a starting point for anyone looking to get started in the addictive world of smoking meat, you can't go wrong.

After a lot of research online, i decided on the OKJ Highland. I seasoned it as per the instructions and lots of YouTube instruction and also purchased the mod kit to help seal the door, add the additional temp gauge and seal the joints. And now it works brilliantly. Yes the paint flakes off the firebox, bit if you re season it after use it will not rust.I absolutely love using it and have done some fantastic briskets and pulled pork joints that are several levels above anything you can buy for the oven.Now, a few months into ownership and I am looking at the next mods to increase the amount of grill space on bbqmods.comI would buy another in a heartbeat, but I don't think I will ever need too.