Ya Mon let's smoke some feesh

Does anyone use the cheapo brinkman smoker or are you guys all electric. Is there a tried and true technique out there. I end up throwing away half of what I'm trying to smoke.

I have a Webber kettle smoker that I got for free off of the side of the road...really.  I was struggling with charcoal as well, and Leahs dad showed me the way.  We went to Kmart and bought an single electric stove element thingy (kind of a hot plate dealie) for about $10 and then put the chips in a round metal cake pan.  Works awesome and ez to manage.

Just like this but we paid WAY less...http://www.everythingkitchens.com/toastmaster_range_burner_6420.html

I use a cheapo electric smoker from Home Depot as well (char broil brand). 

http://www.homedepot.com/prel80/HDUS/EN_US/diy_main/pg_diy.jsp?CNTTYPE=PROD_META&CNTKEY=misc%2fsearchResults.jsp&BV_SessionID=@@@@1119835146.1167805714@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdcaddjkkgddgjcgelceffdfgidgkj.0&MID=9876

Works just fine once you get the hang of it.  I added hooks for a third rack so I can do quite a bit of meat at one time.

I do the sturgeon jerky on it and set on medium during a 50 to 60 degree day the smoker stays at below 180 degrees or so, nice and slow. 

Blue- jess lemme know.

electric is super simple. the luhr-jensen big chief, little chief or mini-chief are well regarded by functional types if not gourmets.

I use a mini-chief, it will smoke a few lbs pretty easily.