Hello,
I'm from North Central iowa and am fairly new to smoking meat. I started out on a cheap electric smoker a couple years ago that had too thin of a wall that was difficult to get up to temperature and maintain. I did manage to smoke a few ribs with fairly good success but my smoking was pretty much limited to warm days with no wind. I have since moved up to a MES 30 a few months ago and absolutely love it!
Now that I have it and have found this forum, I am soaking up all kinds of good information as to how and what to smoke. So far, I have smoked a meatloaf, ribs, beans, ABT's and even tried a fatty (all good). I'm planning on a test run this weekend with a pork butt that will be my first pulled pork. I hope it goes well since I volunteered to do pulled pork for about 50 people in a couple weeks. With the info I've seen on this forum, I have no doubt that it will turn out well.
I never really thought much about doing any cold smokes, but I wil definitley try some smoked cheese in the near future (after I order one of the A-Maze-N Pellet Smokers to compliment my MES 30).
Thanks to everyone who contributes to this forum to help new guys like me!
I'm from North Central iowa and am fairly new to smoking meat. I started out on a cheap electric smoker a couple years ago that had too thin of a wall that was difficult to get up to temperature and maintain. I did manage to smoke a few ribs with fairly good success but my smoking was pretty much limited to warm days with no wind. I have since moved up to a MES 30 a few months ago and absolutely love it!
Now that I have it and have found this forum, I am soaking up all kinds of good information as to how and what to smoke. So far, I have smoked a meatloaf, ribs, beans, ABT's and even tried a fatty (all good). I'm planning on a test run this weekend with a pork butt that will be my first pulled pork. I hope it goes well since I volunteered to do pulled pork for about 50 people in a couple weeks. With the info I've seen on this forum, I have no doubt that it will turn out well.
I never really thought much about doing any cold smokes, but I wil definitley try some smoked cheese in the near future (after I order one of the A-Maze-N Pellet Smokers to compliment my MES 30).
Thanks to everyone who contributes to this forum to help new guys like me!
