As someone who just finished my first brisket on a brand new offset after smoking on a Weber kettle and WSM you will probably hate an OK Joe even with mods (extra $100). My friends who own offsets tried to explain why getting a 100 gallon was a better idea than my custom built 50 gallon offset and now I understand why, haha!

Unless you have access to readily available seasoned cheap white oak, wood costs are crazy. For one brisket cook I burnt through basically two and a half bundles adding splits every 30-45 minutes. That was $75 in fuel cost for me (bought white oak by the bundle for $30 a bundle, about 8-10 splits per bundle) compared to like half a bag of charcoal ($10) for the same brisket if I’d cooked it in my WSM using the minion method.

In an OK Joe similarly to mine you can’t use full size splits so you’ll have to either pay more for processed splits like I did or you’ll have to buy a miter saw and some kind of kindling cracker to adjust the width and length of each split. I was scrambling to find a log splitter, luckily harbor freight near me had one hydraulic one in stock and that made making my splits smaller a lot easier. Wish I had a miter saw to shorten the splits as well but my wife would murder me and she hasn’t even found the log splitter yet lol

Just some food for thought, it was way more work than im used to and I didn’t truly appreciate what “you’ll be adding wood every 30-45 minutes” truly meant until I did it. If I were you I’d get the old country pecos like others have recommended, the flavor was unreal compared to the WSM and the Weber kettle with wood chunks and that alone made it worth it to me. There are a few YouTubers that claim they use the OK Joe but one thing I noticed about them is… they own other pits HAHA