Hi Icefever, thank you for the welcome and advice people have been very kind and I would love to go to a meet some time.
Hi Wade,
thank you o much for the fantastic reply and the time you have clearly given without ever meeting me, what go around comes around and god things happy to good people.
so I live In Paisley just outside of Glasgow, my budget is anything, I don't want to buy a really expensive unit just because its expensive, I would rather be practical and try to get an understanding of the technique to understand what unit would best suit, this may change as I go along.....
I would be cooking for me and my family 3 kids and me and the wife, I have a large family who also meet every Sunday and from time to time I do cook for them so seven brothers and sisters and all the family that come with that.
So I to date have not used the smoker for smoking I did use it this year for cooking bbq and it was great. I have fired up the smoker unit at the side and messed around with air flow etc... to see how the temperature react.
I was going to try Spatchcock chicken at the weekend as advise ( also start easy and learn). I watched a TV program about building log cabins so I did just that, I have been watching Man Fire Food lately and although had the smoker before watching this has spurred me on.
again thanks to everyone for taking the time to help a stranger
john