Recent content by Sitty89

Thank you for your help and thank you especially for your service. I am in the Pittsburgh area if that helps.

I did not try lighting both ends on the AMNPS. I thought about it, but the Austin XL is new to me and I am trying to get things dialed in. I ordered the tube. Just hoping it makes some kind of difference. Fairly cheap experiment.

Thanks for this. I first used Pit Boss Competition pellets and am now using Lumberjack Apple. I also have a bag of Lumberjack Hickory ready to go. I smoked 2 pork butts with the Lumberjack Apple and just didn’t get enough smoke. I used the AMNPS as well. Just need more smoke!

Yeah, not enough smoke flavor at all. Extremely disappointing.

So even though I was able to get the AMNPS to burn for the entire smoke, it still won’t be as good?

I recently bought a pellet smoker (Pit Boss Austin XL) and am not getting the smoke flavor I want. Everyone talks about the tube smoker, which I am all about, but I already have an AMNPS from my MES days. I have used the AMNPS in the smoker for ribs and pork butt, but I don’t think I got good...

Thank you for that! That’s exactly the info I needed. Thinking of cold smoking another belly for an hour before I go to the smoker. Hoping that helps some. Thanks again!

The only other thing I can think of is the cure shrunk the thickness of the belly. It ended up being maybe an inch and a quarter thick.

I haven’t tried letting it run at the smoke setting which is lower than 200. But I still don’t understand why it would get up to temp so quickly.

Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I was shooting for 150 per several recommendations from various sources.

Yesterday I smoked some pork belly in my new Pit Boss Austin XL. I set the temp to 200 because I wanted a longer smoke. I verified that the temp was at or near 200 for the entire time. The problem is, it reached 150 in an hour and a half! I was hoping for at least. 3 hour smoke. One thing that...