The western style heavy duty smoker barbecue offers various food preparation options on the one hand you can grill food traditionally on the cooking grate placed directly above the embers on the other hand meat can also be cooked in the smoke coming out of the fire this is possible due to the special design of the smoker smoke is generated from burning wood in the smaller and rather deeper fire chamber the smoke escapes upward into the greater smoking chamber where the food to be smoked i