Newbie from NJ

Welcome to the SMF Family...Please add where you are to your profile, makes it easier to help you. You are going to love the MES. I would suggest you take the Free 5 Day eCourse and get yourself a good Digital probe Thermometer. The one that comes with the MES is pretty good but many users have seen variances from 5 to 20 degrees. Many of us use the Maverick 732 Dual Probe therm. It has a remote and one probe for Smoker temp and a second for Meat temp. The MES will generate smoke starting at around 180*F or higher but will require additional chips every 30-40 minutes. A great accessory is the A-MAZE-N Products AMNPS pellet smoke generator. This generator is inexpensive and having been designed with the MES in mind, will generate flavorful smoke at any temp between 0 and 300*F and will allow you to make smoke at the sub 100*F temps used for Cheese and Bacon. The MES can't do these on it's own. It will let you smoke for any amount of time up to 10+ hours without having to reload. This comes in real handy on those long Pork Butt and Beef Brisket Smokes.

BTW, I grew up in Piscataway NJ, Tp exit 10...

:welcome1: to SMF

Hello and  to SMF - glad to have you here