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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy
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?
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Take the lazy mans approach and get an electric smoker. It's just a heating element sitting on some lava rock. It is permanently set to 220 so you generally gauge your cooking time based on that. It burns through the wood pretty fast so you have to replace it every couple of hours though it may not be necessary. I believe Lebowski has noted that the smoke won't penetrate after an hour.
This is the one I have.
http://www.amazon.com/Brinkmann-810-.../dp/B0009WG6RA