I'm having a catastrophe right now with my masterbuilt 30!

winkster2005 said:

So I fired it up this morning to put my pork butt in and got it to 230 degrees. I put my amazen 5x8 tray in half full and my 6 lb pork butt. I checked my thermometer and it went to 319 degrees and then it even went to 393 degrees which I find impossible. So I put it in the kitchen oven and it's reading within 30 degrees of the oven. Then. A few minutes later I notice my smoker is smoking a lot. I go out there and almost all of my half tray of pellets have burnt up with about half of them left charred black. I really don't know what's going on. The whole time I never went over 240 on the smoker. Can anyone help me?

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winkster2005 said:

So I fired it up this morning to put my pork butt in and got it to 230 degrees. I put my amazen 5x8 tray in half full and my 6 lb pork butt. I checked my thermometer and it went to 319 degrees and then it even went to 393 degrees which I find impossible. So I put it in the kitchen oven and it's reading within 30 degrees of the oven. Then. A few minutes later I notice my smoker is smoking a lot. I go out there and almost all of my half tray of pellets have burnt up with about half of them left charred black. I really don't know what's going on. The whole time I never went over 240 on the smoker. Can anyone help me?

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winkster2005 said:

Maybe I'm overreacting a little. This is only the aecpnd smoke ive done and im nervous. I'm in hour 4 and I still have some smoke and the internal temp is 150 per my old kitchen thermometer. That seems like a good temp for 4 hours in right?

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winkster2005 said:

My thermometer read 319 and 393 while my smoker read 240. I think I just freaked out. Things look good 5 hours and 155-160. Thanks guys for helping a greenhorn. I'll let you know how things go!

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