Tropit, I feel the smoker is pretty darn safe -- is electric and does not smoke bomb the house or neighborhood.
Sure, ours is overkill because of the hubby, but this is what we have:
https://www.pitboss-grills.com/produ...d-pellet-grill
LOL he assembled it inside our 3-season porch and then discovered it was too wide to get through the door! He had to take the entire sliding door unit (both sides) out. But we do use it, both for full cooks and for smoke flavors, and big pieces/sizes of meat from pork belly to brisket.
The burn and the pellets are all contained and there is no live fire/spark anywhere. The pellets are easy to source, Costco carries a reasonable flavor, which is what we are using now.
And yum! Onebyone, I started making my owned corned beef during covid and hubby's eating changes. I did look at briskets at costco but decided the price was bit higher than I wanted -- and there was a case of pork loins with $5 off (basically 50 cents per pound?) at the register. Which will be dinner tomorrow, just cut one portion into chops and grill them (have frozen the rest). We also corn pork, adding more ginger and some other things to the brine/spice mix, that works better with shoulder/dark pork than the loin.
Turkey will be done resting as soon as I finish this post
