When I plug in my Bradley smoker into an outside outlet it trips the outlet. It never happened before and when I plug other items into the outlet they work fine. I plugged the bradley into an extension cord and plugged into an outlet inside my house and it worked fine. Any ideas why it keeps tripping the outside outlet?
if the outlet is a GFIC outlet, you may have a spurious current through ground,,, check it
What does that mean?
GFIC = Ground Fault interrupter Circuit, .. translation is if this circuit detects any voltage or current through through the grounding conductor ,, it will trip,.. it is a safety feature... which makes me think you may have a current or some type leakage of voltage going through ground,,, or even a faulty GFIC receptacle.
My guess, as Beefman suggested, is a bad GFCI. At least, I'd start with that assumption because it would be the easiest problem to correct.