What kind of tape hold up in a smoker? I've seen foil tape and I think I've even seen really thinn stainless steel tape. Do you use one of these? Also, Do you put your meat on this rack? Or a rack below this one so that the tips of the probes would be even with the top of the meat?
If I'm only using one rack, it will be the one that the probe sticks through, so the tip of the probe is about 2" to 3" below the meat, and not touching the metal rack too close to the tip of the probe. This is plenty close, because I don't want the cold meat to effect my Therms.
Hey Bear are they going to give you one to trial for them?.
What I gather from all this is that while my MES 30 is squeezed for cooking space, I'm also spared quite a few hassles that come with the MES 30 Gen 1. More than likely if/when I'm ready to replace my smoker I'll choose one of the new MES 40s since they'll still be more affordable than any other quality electric smoker.
This would work. I'm going to see if I can find it in the supermarkets. Also want to check out that grout brush.
This and the suggestion from Brickguy221 look good. I'll check to see if Lowe's carries this. OXO is a popular brand for kitchen gadgets and they make some of our favorites.
I put in a call this morning, sent some pictures directly to a customer service agent, and now waiting to hear back.. I'll let y'al know what I find out!
I'll let someone with a Gen #2.5 answer you on this, as I don't have to play the chip dumper pulling game with my Gen #1.
I have the 2.5 BT 40" Smoker. What you listed is basically what I do. On my last 2 smokes, I sat a bean can with both ends cut out over the vent on top. I don't know if it does anything beneficial or not, so maybe it is my eyes playing tricks, but it appears there is a bit more smoke coming out that way.
Rick, the brand name on mine is GUM, but looks exactly like the ones on Amazon. So identical that who ever makes them probably makes them for both places, maybe??? I find it at my local Grocery Store. Some Wal-Mart stores have them also
Keep an eye on that, especially in the Winter.
It may help the draft, but when I put the can on, I did it to see if it would help keep the wind from sucking the heat out of the vent.
It's hard to say, unless you watch it closely and see how both the Mav & the MES temps are cycling. One of the reasons is that the Maverick is more sensitive than the MES sensor, so the cycles are often bigger in both directions, and the MES therm is slower to react, so that would account for the variation. You could look at it one minute & they're close. Then 3 minutes later they could be 15° different than each other.
Thanks, Jim. I'm familiar with the GUM brand name. When we do our grocery shopping this weekend I'll look for this brush.
NOW I can visualize it. The next time I wheel my smoker out from the garage I'm going to do this. I just never think of this stuff so I've never thought to look through the chip loader through the hole. In a few weeks I'm going to smoke a couple of baby backs and that's when I'll take a look-see.
