Thought I would post a better pic of where I put the A-MAZE-N. There are two metal rods that go across the bottom of the MES40 which seemed like the perfect place for it.n So here are this mornings pictures.
Smoke Daddy or A-Maze-N smoker???
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So can you use the luhr jensen wood chips in the AMNS? Or are you pretty much stuck ordering the "dust" online. That is the only drawback I can see so far, ya just cant run to the store if your out.
You made a wise decision!
You're gonna love it!
That 5 pound bag should last a long time.
I'm not sure about a 6 X 8, but I would guess about 15 full loads.
Maybe 120 to 160 hours total.
roughly an average of 4 hours per smoke, could be up to 40 smokes.
Let us know how you like it,
Bear
That's an easy one to solve:
Get 10 pounds of dust.
Put 5 pounds in a different place.
When you run out of the first 5 pounds, go to the other place and get the other 5 pounds (kinda like going to the store to buy 5 more pounds). Also a good time to order more.
Saves on gas too. The only real drawback is shipping costs, and Todd does the best he can on that.
The more you get, the cheaper it is per pound.
I hope I'm not sounding rude coffee, but it reminds me of when I worked at Beth Steel.
They originally paid us every two weeks.
Then they changed it to every week.
A whole bunch of guys complained, "Now what am I going to do? I have my whole life, bills, and everything set up for getting paid every other week!!!"
I told them something similar. "Put one check in a safe place. Then when you get the next check, cash the two of them together, just like you would still be getting the two week check."
Bear
lexoutlaw
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just got my AMNS yesterday....have some bacon ready to go for the weekend. i wanted something just like you, and the AMNS seems to be the overwhelming choice.
i is a moose
Smoking Fanatic
I live by, and will die by, the saying: "Keep it simple stupid".
If it's more complex than I need, I will not own it, and if I cannot fix it on a length of plywood stretch across a couple saw-horses, then I would never buy it.
That rules out automatic smokers, and automatic transmissions.
The Amaze-N-Smoker is the perfect embodyment of "KISS", no moving parts to fail, no ridiculous timetables, and smoulders on its own cool enough for cold smoke.
If it's more complex than I need, I will not own it, and if I cannot fix it on a length of plywood stretch across a couple saw-horses, then I would never buy it.
That rules out automatic smokers, and automatic transmissions.
The Amaze-N-Smoker is the perfect embodyment of "KISS", no moving parts to fail, no ridiculous timetables, and smoulders on its own cool enough for cold smoke.
Coffee_ Junkie
Sorry, Luhr Jensen wood chips are just a little coarse to burn in the AMNS
I try to keep sawdust prices as fair as possible. There's a lot to sourcing, shipping, grinding, drying, mixing and bagging sawdust. This all takes time and costs money. I can't go to my local cabinet shops and load up my truck with sawdust. Their bins may contain hardwoods, pine, MDF, laminate and other nasty stuff. Cabinet shops are in the cabinet business, and not in the sawdust business. Much of this sawdust is used in heating pellets and animal bedding, but not good for smoking food!!
Many guys are ordering 5# of sawdust with their smoker, and this gets the price down to $2.60/lb.
Some customers have a buddy who supplies them with sawdust, or they may do some woodwork themselves. Sawdust from a table saw or miter saw is perfect. A 5 gallon bucket goes a very long way. You may know of a local cabinet shop that will let you have a bucket of sawdust for "FREE"!
Or, you could go to a certain website, and pay $10.79 for about 12 oz. of "Gourmet Sawdust" that most likely has flavor oils added to plain old maple or oak sawdust!!
Todd
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A lot of us order lots of different kinds of dust and running out would be a real rare occurrence, we would always have some flavor as a backup.
Also with the AMNS you have a great assortment of flavors to choose from, using chips it is not always easy to find some of the flavors Todd offers.
Also with the AMNS you have a great assortment of flavors to choose from, using chips it is not always easy to find some of the flavors Todd offers.
i is a moose
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that's very true. My favorite grocer has mesquite or apple chips only. The nearby Barbeques Galore has mesquite, hickory, apple, pecan, cherry and whiskey barrel, and quantities are far from guaranteed.
The wait for the shipping is killing me! My amazn smoker isn't supposed to show up till late tomorrow and I'm dieng for it to get here today! I have some baby backs in the fridge waiting for the christening of the new amazn with some hickory dust, or maybe cherry. I just can't decide. I feel like a kid on Christmas eve!
i is a moose
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Amazin is cured and doing it's job in my MES with two MOJO marinated babyback racks with two huge fatties and a stuffed lamb burger! I love this new toy! This thing is just amazing! (uh, yeah I know... that's its name) I love the even smoke. I had such a hard time maintaining an even smoke out of my MES. If I didn't see smoke, I'd add more chips until I had a billowing heavy white smoke coming out of the vent. No more! Problem solved! No more acidic heavy smoke flavor! I can't wait to try the flavor from the Cherry dust!
biteme7951
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