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    Upgrading

    I did the microwave thing and even put a bunch of pellets on a cookie sheet in the oven for a bit to make sure they were dried out as much as possible. Tray burned just fine outside on my patio for hours. soon as I put it in the MES on the bottom or 1 rack up it would smoke for 5-10 minutes...
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    Upgrading

    I've had my MES40 1 year now and even got the A-MAZE-N tray and tried different types of wood pellets in it. For some reason I can not keep the amazen tray to stay burning. I light it with a gas torch and let it burn for several minutes. get plenty of hot little coals going, fire burns to a...
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    Pit Boss pellets irritating me.

    I smoked a 22 lbs turkey over night for our Christmas dinner. I put some pellets in a double thick freezer ziplock bag and took after it with the spiked end of a meat tenderizer hammer. Turned it into crumbs. not quite dust but crumbs. Worked awesome. packed it in the Amazen tray pretty good...
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    Pit Boss pellets irritating me.

    I've seen the mail box mods but not ready to start modding my MES. I have a Gen 1 MES 140S. Meat drippings arnt getting it. I have the water pan in it but no water and a foil pan sitting on the rack over the water pan. I put my amazen tray on the pan under the water pan off to the left. When...
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    Pit Boss pellets irritating me.

    An hour in smoking with the Traeger pellets and still smoking strong. Lots of good blue smoke. Even have a little smoke coming out the wood chip loader tube with the loader 75% in. Figured air flow would be going in through the loader and out the top but there is also the hole in the back of...
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    Pit Boss pellets irritating me.

    No, I have a tray on the rack below the ham to catch the drippings and the pellet tray is on bottom off to the side out of the way. First smoking i had with the pit boss pellets i had trouble and did the microwave trick for a couple minutes a couple different times and no difference. Second...
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    Pit Boss pellets irritating me.

    Bought a new 40 lb bag of Pit Boss competition mix pellets for my MES and the last 2 smokings I've had a tough time getting them to stay lit. I light one end of my A MAZE N tray with my torch and let it burn for a good 5 minutes before blowing the fire out so it can smolder and it has plenty of...
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    Wood chips vs Pellets

    I just did my first smoking in my MES 40 yesterday and used the A MAZE N tray and got 12.5 hours off 1 full tray. If its not giving off enough smoke for you then you can burn the pellets from both ends of the tray for double the smoke and get about 6 hours out of it before needing to refill the...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    That's what i plan on next time for larger pieces of meats I smoke is burn both ends at the same time for more smoke. or add the A MAZE N tube in also. Yes we have Dicks Sporting goods here in fact there's one maybe a half mile from my house. And a large super store just a few miles away. We...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    Well first smoking in MES I would call a success. I let it rest for at least 40 mins. unwrapped it and grabbed the bone and it pulled right out clean. Started grabbing chunks and putting it in the pan to shred. wife grabs the hand help potato masher to shred it. its just smooshed and fell...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    Just pulled it out at 210 internal temp and almost didn't get it out of the pan in 1 piece to foil it and let it rest. It just started falling apart so i grabbed 2 big spatulas to get it out of the pan. The bone I tried to pull out, got it half way out and realized if i pull it out then it...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    My A MAZE N 5x8 tray is on hour 11 with whatever pellets came in it when I bought it. I'm assuming probably a competition blend. but about an inch left in the last row so I had to go to Big R store right down the road from me and bought a 40 lbs bag of Pit Boss competition blend wood pellets...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    I cranked up the temp at noon to 275 and the meat temp is now at 200 and seems to be climbing about 10 degrees every hour. About another hour and a half it should be above 210 internal temp. Gives me an hour + to let it rest and then I can shred it for dinner. Temp difference between my Taylor...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    Thank you. I'm kind of taking everyone's suggestions and blending them together to see how this first smoke comes out and make adjustments where needed for my taste. My MES is the 40 inch smoker. I dont think i could deal with the 30 inch as it would be to small for me. I do Thanksgiving and...
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    First smoking in my new Gen 1 MES 40.

    Ya I just used my MAPP gas torch to light the pellets this morning. Had to break it out anyway. Went to turn on the MES and got the AEE1 error on the display. LUCKILY i had already just happened to see a post about the AEE1 error and how to fix it. I used the torch to warm up the thermostat...
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