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The only thing I would change is spending the extra $50 for the steel cabinet. Had to re-enforce some of the hinges because the particle board was too week.

Thanks, took about 3 days with some help from my friends. They emptied my shop fridge too 

During the long cold winter I came up with a plan to get my MES off the ground and have a work surface handy. Had some counter-top from my kitchen remodel project to use and I bought a cabinet from Menard's.  Cut the counter-top to fit the cabinet and cut the back splash off for the piece...

Thanks porkfat. I haven't tried the coco yet. Just trying a few different ways to see what works best for me.

I'll give them a big BLT and they won't ever leave me alone.

The romain was very crisp. My basement bedroom is about 65 deg all the time. I harvest the lettuce by cutting the outside leaves only. after a while they look like palm trees.

This last winter I was really craving some freash salad greens and didn't like the choices at the store. So after doing some reasearch I decided to set up a salad garden in our unused basement bedroom. The wife told me right away no dirt so I set up a Flood and drain (or eb and flow) hydroponic...

Here's some pictures. I smoked the all ribs for 2 hours using apple wood and a little hickory chips. The ribs that I just spritzed with apple juice and added some squeeze butter after 2 hours in the foil. The ribs that I put brown sugar, honey and squeeze butter under and over. The ribs...

The ribs came out fantastic! The 1st time I got tender, juicy ribs. Love my MES and want to thank everybody on this forum for all the information.

Picked up 2 full racks of babybacks for the weekend. I got them all rubbed down with a little yellow mustard and plenty of rib rub. Been in my MES for 2 hours at about 225. Used mostly applewood chips with some hickory. Got them wrapped in foil now. Trying it out 3 ways. 2 pieces I just...

Decided to try some pizza style fatties. Used sweet Italian sausage. Devided it into 2 half pound portions and flattened them out in quart zip bags. Made one for the wife with, pasta sauce provalone cheese pepperonie slices mushrooms black olives mozzarella cheese freash basil I had...

Looking at the newsletter I got yesterday and saw the recipe for Personnel size fatties so I decided to try it. This is the 1st time I've tried fatties and it looked good. Used 1/2 lb breakfast sausage from our local meat shop Some pickeled banana peppers (I didn't have any jalapenos) Medium...

Are you growing lettuce in the float bed? I've seen videos of comercial setups.

Wow Piney, that's a nice setup. A lot bigger than mine. I grow a dirt garden but decided to try hydroponics this year. Satrted a flood and drain system for lettuce and spinich in January when we had 3 feet of snow. And started a tomato plant and Thai pepper plant and put them in a bucket...

I like the sissors sharpener on this one.