My suggestion, for the easiest smoker setup, is to pick up a Masterbuilt Digital electric smoker from Bass Pro, and to order a A-Maze-N Pelet Smoker (AMNPS) to provide your smoke inside. I turn on my smoker around 10 PM, and set it to 220 degrees. Put a nice rub on an 8 pound pork shoulder (or two!) and load them into the smoker. This is when you light your AMNPS so it can put out a nice amount of smoke for the next 11 hours. That's it. Go to bed, and don't think about it again until lunch or dinner time the next day, when it will be ready to eat (200F). If you want to hold it hot, for a later dinner time, wrap it in foil, and put it back into the smoker set at 150 degrees until you are ready to pull it. It's just stupidly easy to make great BBQ every-single-time. The AMNPS can use whatever hardwood pellets you like, and works great with Traeger's. Complete setup could run you $250ish.

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