A friend gave me a new braunsfel smo...

I have one of these. In the fire box(lower left) I put my coals and hickory wood. I sometimes use cowbot charcoal (wonderful but burns quick) I put the meat in the main chamber closer towards the smoke pipe. The method is called indirect. I keep the temp around 200 and let it go all day. Note: After 2 hours I wrap my ham or turkey with foil to keep the meat from getting black. Helps cook the meat through and through. The only problem I had with mine was the tacky assed cheap metal legs that rusted out and left me with a legless solid cast iron smoker. I fixed tha by placing 4 landscape timers into the ground and bias cutting them to cradle that smoker. I placed 2x2s on each side to keep the timbers from spreading. Been like that for 5 years. Looks damn nice and i aint gotta worry about nobody rolling it out the yard. For big partys you can lay in some charcoal to the main chamber and hot dog hamburger sausage yerself crazy. Hooks up some nice chicken.
You could put fire in the firebox and grill on the provided grill and place the food in the big chamber to keep it warm. It is a marvelous machine, very versatile.