But when I sold my old house that had a concrete patio (easy to hose off) and bought a townhouse with a wood deck, I purchased a two burner gas grill for the ease of cleaning and ease of use and I loved it.
I also purchased a cast iron smoker box. You can get wood chips that come in variety – hickory, apple wood, cherry wood, etc., and soak them for a while in water (or apple juice or beer, whatever you want) and put the wet chips in the smoker box when heating up the grill.
The smoke imparts the desired smokiness to the food without all the mess.
That being said, I wouldn’t mind having a charcoal or a gas grill or a smoker. But I now live in a second floor apartment and can’t have a grill. Although people with first floor concrete patios can and on a beautiful sunny 80 degree day like today, the smell of other people grilling makes me near crazy.
So you are saying this smoker box attaches to the gas grill and puts flavored smoke in it??