How Do You Smoke a Brisket in an Electric Smoker? 2022 Guide and Tips

You want to be able to smoke a brisket in an electric smoker and have it taste as delicious as it smells. You want to have the freedom of cooking a whole brisket on your schedule. You want to avoid buying pre-smoked meats from the grocery store.

But you don’t know anything about smoking meat. How should you start? What temperature should you start at? And how do you maintain the right heat and smoke throughout the entire process?

There is so much to learn about smoking meat that you might get overwhelmed and give up before you ever get started. The good news is, you don’t need to be an expert to smoke a whole brisket. All you have to do is follow a few simple steps and you can have a perfectly smoked whole brisket without any problems. You will have more time to enjoy the food because there is nothing more relaxing than having a good barbecue with friends and family.

To help you avoid all that…

In this article, I would like to reveal some simple tips you can use to smoke a whole brisket in an electric smoker. These tips are easy to follow and even if you are a complete novice when it comes to smoking meats, you should still be able to achieve great results in just a few short minutes. Once you learn these techniques, you will be able to smoke meats at home without getting burned or having to leave the house just to get your barbecue fix.

Sounds good?

Let’s dive in…

Tips to Smoke a Whole Brisket in an Electric Smoker?

If you are working on making your first smoked brisket, and wanted to know how to smoke it in an electric smoker. You simply need to get the brisket ready, but it seems like it takes forever for it to cook.

When put in the oven (after about 10 hours of smoking), it looks very similar to when smoking it in the wood smoker, but doesn’t seem to have developed any of the flavors that come from smoking it for that amount of time.

It also seems like it takes much longer to cook. It feels like it’s taking 20-30 minutes per pound, whereas in the wood smoker it takes about 30 minutes per pound to cook to my taste.

So the first thing is… it will take longer to smoke a whole brisket in an electric smoker because it doesn’t use heat the same way as the wood smoker.

With the wood smoker, the hot smoke rises and you can feel the heat rising off the meat. This is not the case with the electric smoker because it heats the air around the meat.

So, when you cook a whole brisket in the electric smoker, there is no smoke rising to give the meat some flavor

How do we solve this?

The good news is that if you’ve ever smoked a brisket before then you already know how to get this done. There are a couple of key points to note:

1. Put Brisket on a Rack:

Firstly, you need to put the brisket on a higher rack than you would normally put it on

This will ensure the smoke has plenty of room to rise around the brisket, so it gets lots of smoke flavoring.

It’s important to keep your cooker as cool as possible, but still as hot as possible. You don’t want to end up with a cold brisket.

2. Take Care of Smoking Process:

Secondly, you need to be very careful about your smoking process. It needs to be slow and steady. So even if you have an electric cooker with more power than a wood one, you’ll have to be careful with the temperature and time you’re smoking.

3. Use Higher Rack for Delicious Meal:

If you have a higher rack, and the heat is set a bit higher than you normally use, then you should end up with a much better result. 

To Sum Up!

So you’ve finally committed to getting into the barbecue game. You bought yourself a decent grill and now you’re ready to get serious about barbecuing.

But what is a brisket? And what makes a perfect one? Is it the perfect cut of meat? Does it have to be smoked at exactly 225 degrees for exactly 2 hours and 15 minutes?

Not at all! By using the above guide you can easily smoke the perfect brisket and create that sweet and smoky flavor. You won’t have to own a commercial electric smoker if you don’t want to. You’ll be able to use a cheap grill and an inexpensive electric smoker instead.

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