Be nice if there was a way around all that smoking step, otherwise making corned beef would get you most of the way there.
Interesting timing as I’ve just been researching homemade pastrami recipes.
There was one that did not require a smoker. They oven-smoked it somehow.
I plan to try making pastrami next week. Have to time it properly as the smoker phase needs to occur on a weekend when I can attend it.