Anybody recognize this thing

[buickmarti]

For sale locally by me.

Tried to google the name but nothing comes up.

Trying to figure out what is missing.

Looks light weight to have a fire in.

 

[pnut]

I don't think it's a forge. I could be wrong though. It could definitely be modified to use as a forge in any case. 

Pnut

[Anachronist58]

I am calling it a smoker grill.

Robert Taylor

[Frosty]

Put a round grill in and lid on it, and  it says smoker to me too. Alton Brown of "Good Eats" fame makes a version with a coffee can and a couple other things for smoking. Not the preserve your fish or  make jerky kind of cold smoke preservation smoking, the add a smoky punch to your dinner kind of smoking say you want smoked turkey. 

I do that sort of smoking in a roasting pan with a charcoal briquette and wood chips, the lit keeps the chips from flaring and the roasting rack allows contact on the whole surface. 

There are stove top tricks if anybody is interested but they should probably appear in Vulcan's Grill.

Frosty The Lucky.

[SLAG]

Smoking some Mandarin,  Hunan, and Szechuan dishes can be done by placing the food item on a raised "grill" placed inside a wok with a top.

Black tea leaves* are gently heated in that wok.

Peking Duck can be cooked in that kind of set-up.

A special smoker is, thus, not necessary.

SLAG.

* for example Lapsang Souchong tea leaves.

 

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

I showed it to my wife and she said it's a Spanish cooker, she should know as she is Hispanic descent. The name on the label is Latino.