Most Need Supplies For Cooking On Masterbuilt Gasser

bigger water pan and better chip pan.meat

search on the term  "masterbuilt xl mods" lots of good stuff if that is teh one you have

Tin foil

Some cheap drip pans .. Tinfoil pie plates to start .. You can move up to re-usable weber drip pans .. But you want to keep then on the small side

A good pair BBQ mitts or a set of ove gloves ( eBay from china ... Dirt cheap )

A tinfoil tray 12 x 8 that you can punch holes in ( about the size of a pencil eraser) or a frog mat or two .. To hold a fattie, wings or fish

Pickling vinegar ( bit more acid ). Will clean the smoke off anything you want to sparkle ..

Most important is access to the search button on this form .. Great folks here .. Lots of experience


Fire extinguisher for the deck ( safety first )
Camera for q-view
Some salvaged trays for moving q to and from the kitchen
A suitcase full of spices :-)


Have fun ....

Ross

P.S. Nice gas purchase .. I just bought a et-732 also.

In my propane smoker I put sand in the water pan instead of water and it has helped maintain more consistent temps a lot, I use a disposable foil baking pan with a little water sitting on top of the sand pan to catch drippings.

Once you get it set up I would run it with your Mav and check temps to get a feel for it. You might want to add a needle valve if you have a hard time dialing in the temps with the factory valve. My GOSM had a hard time with small adjustments until I went to the needle valve.

Actual drippings ... :-)


Go to the profile pages for Chef jimmyj , Daveomak, etc. Look at their stored pictures .. See their smokers in action .. See what they use in an every day smoke .. Check out other q-view pics and you will get ideas as to what people use in their smokers as well. Todd posts on here also .. His picks also provide hands on experience.

This is real world info ..

Pie plates are cheap .. Supermarket tinfoil pans are reasonable but of light construction .. Weber or Napoleon grill pans are of a heavy material can easily be reused , moved safely when full of drippings, and cleaned ( if the Mrs. or a guest do not toss them ) but they cost twice as much. The small weber drip pan is also a great size for my MES 30 .. But you have a lot more draft around room in your XL so the large webber may be the ticket for you ...

Old pizza pans , the ones with holes can act as a frog mat also ..

Some posts state if you do a lot of fish the smoker can get a bit of a fish cure .. So if this happens ( your pic would indicate it may ). Then the vinegar will clean the smoker easily and you can burn it in again .. Over and over ....

I had three to for months of reading to get ready for my first smoke due to weather and my wanting a shelter , so I found a life time of info here on this site .. My first smokes went with out a hitch .. But alas in my waiting period I must have bought about a ton of sausage making gear .. That was great on it's own :-)

Ross

wood chucks! anyone say that yet?

You will be on the Mainland side of Newfoundland and Labrador .. The Labrador part .. The Newfoundland part is a large island .. It also still has vast undisturbed land tracks and Caribou in small numbers , but they are not in large herds so hunting them is not as easy to plan for.. Your guides may even be taking you into Quebec for the actual hunt .... Newfoundland & Labrador has really been cut back on Caribou kills this year. I live on the west coast of the Island part. Bring a sweater and some fly dope :-). Cook in the day .. Freeze at night .. I think you have to use a 12 gauge on the flies as a .30-30 or 7mm only make them mad. Actually the same Caribou cross the invisible border and can be hunted in Quebec until they wander back to the Labrador side ...

Ross

P.S. I am surrounded by salmon rivers ( we can keep three salmon a year, large ones must be released ) moose are everywhere , trout by the net full , and I do not fish or hunt .. Did as a kid in Nova Scotia , but that was 45 years ago. I will most likely smoke a salmon or two this year for my brother in law, but he travels home from across Canada to do that fishing. I am not a stranger to the woods .. Just not a hunter .. Funny how it works .. You will spend big $ to come here an licence up ( hire a guide , pay camp fee ) and I have all the opportunity to do same for next to $.00 cost and pass it up ...

:-)

Ross