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Old 07-07-2008, 01:25 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy View Post
For the non-smoker.....how much attention needs to be given to smoking apparatus? If it is smoking for 2-5 hours, do you need to be checking on it all the time? It sounds delicious, but what if you don't have 5 hours to go back and forth to the backyard?

I would really like to get a smoker and I know there was a great discussion on smokers here a while ago. But it sounds really time consuming. Maybe I am missing the boat, though? It is more "set it and forget it" or are you checking it out every 15 minutes?
I second the recommendation for an electric smoker. I used to have a Brinkman like YOhio's and it was quite consistent. I bought this one:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Outd...436872&sr=1-32

a while back but I don't like it. It tend to dry out the meat. My brother bought this one at Cabelas and he loves it:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...oker&noImage=0

It has a thermostat and the door seals in the moisture. Set the temp and forget it.
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