I have a electric Brinkman Gourmet smoker. I have used this smoker the past 6 or so years, and have made some excellent meals with it. Its oldfaithul considering I paid 65 dollars for It and it lasted this long, versus the masterbuilt which made it just a little over a year. Anyway as the ham finished smoking I reached over and grabbed the plug to unplug the smoker, It was blazing hot, and burned my hand. I Immediately took the outlet cover off, pulled the outlet and the box and checked the wall, everything was OK. Scared the you know what out of me. I found replacement elements for cheap so I'm going to try that, as this has never been a issue before. So a word of caution out there, always check your appliances, and be safe when smoking meat. The good lord was on my side today.