am looking for a smoker that is a little less labor intensive
and might not require quite the tending .
Mr. De_Vries, I have an inexpensive electric smoker designed primarily for curing/smoking sausages that only goes to maybe 230* degrees at the most and with the addition of hardwood sawdust in the tray provided will produce very,very tasty moist tender ribs, pulled pork and brisket albeit without the classic smokering and bark that many folks desire. TENDER is its strong point.
I'm just using it as an example as an old refrigerator with a hot plate in it will do the same thing.Its a heat source.
You stated you were looking into electric smokers so for me a pellet smoker would fall most definitely under that heading with several good ones on the market ATM. With quality digital controllers available on some models they are truly set it and forget it.
I did a FREE simple mod to my pellet hopper and it can run literally indefinitely without tending and that's a very strong point in my opinion.
