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These two mods turn the MES into an incredibly great smoker. After the first time you use it you will ask yourself why you waited to do them!

There are a couple of mods that can be done to the MES that can make it a much better cooker than it is out of the box.PID controller and mailbox mod are something to consider in the future.

Here is another vote to keep your current MES. You can actually consider this an opportunity to upgrade your rig. If you replace the heating element, get a PID, and attach a mailbox mod, you'll be set. (I use a Masterbuilt Slow Smoke attachment, not a mailbox. The crucial thing is to...

To be clear, I didn't say anything about the Amazen pellet/dust style add and add-on mods like the mailbox not working. As a metalworker, I could have Frankensteined my MES to the hilt...even built my own smoker altogether. Like the OP, I bought a ready to go smoker, not wanting to do any more...

Yep, have done the 2 mods. Auber PID and mailbox for smoke tube or tray. I use this smoker way more than my RT pellet grill. Very accurate low temp control for sausage, jerky, fish, etc.

I'm also on the bandwagon for buying an Auber PID. This one with the multipurpose sensor is the least expensive option that will definitely handle the electrical power pull of an MES40: https://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14_28&products_id=110 Do the simple rewire...

A question: When you say cold smoker are you referring to the Masterbuilt attachment? If you're looking for a little more room find yourself a used 40" MES and put it on a waist high table to avoid bending over. If you're using the MB cold smoker attachment mount it,otherwise I'd do the...

I was thinking about that. I have someone picking up my 30” today because I’m moving to a suburb of Houston next weekend. Keeping my MB cold smoker attachment. I also have an Amazon smoke tube for pellets. I rarely use it though. It’s a bit of a pain to get and keep going and I like flipping the...

Hello from RI. The MES is a fairly simple smoker to use and I'm going on the assumption that you're using it as is,no mods of any type. Smoke flavor or lack of can depend on a few things.You mentioned one and that's duration of smoke.Another is amount of smoke being produced on a load.Also...

I hope that's where the mailbox mod will help out. Right now I have the puck burner attached to my Bradley and a pellet tray in the bottom where the water bowl would go. There's enough airflow for burning pucks, but that tray put out a fair amount more smoke tonight. I guess I need to find a...

Thanks, but I've been smoking the usual stuff for several years on my Kamado Joe. I just bought this because I want to get into sausages. Appreciate the help.

...you want something not to expensive, hard to mess up, and allows you to produce good food while learning about your setup and getting mailbox mods, pids, etc. all setup and tweaked with your smoker. It's best to avoid more difficult or long smoking items until you are rocking and rolling on...

...Smoking It model 2 in hopes I can get a more consistent, "lazy mans" product. I don't possess the skills or desire to do any of the MES mailbox mods and the like and it seems for not that much more dough I can get a well insulated box that goes as low at 100 which interests me greatly. You...

Electric cabinet smokers show up on Facebook market and garage sales. Can even advertise for a non working unit. Most of the time it is wiring not the element. Look up mailbox modification for electric smokers. A tray with sawdust will run 10 hours. There is many threads on modifying gas...

MES has a cold smoke attachment box that feeds into the wood hopper on the side. I use it exclusively for everything, including cold smoking cheese. Fill it, turn it on ond it goes for a lot longer than the built in chip feeder. Bought it on Amazon for about $50 and it's made by MES.

I just looked it up on the Bradley smoker site. It appears as though the puck burner gets up around 550f and will raise the temperature of an empty box to about 120f. Of course you have other variables that affect the box temperature so it kinda depends. Ambient temp, temp of the food you put...

It will with some mods. a MB Electric was my first smoker. I got tired of the "mild" smoke flavor (they do work though and beats oven-baked stuff) and since moved on, but this is what you can do...

I have upgraded to the 900 watt tempco heater and modified the generator to accomodate small screw to metal tins that I modified as well to fill with pellets. I use them instead of Biquettes. They are slightly taller and no as big in diameter so would no run through the unmodified generator...

I have finished all the mods to my MES30 smoker, just have to complete the now toolbox mod not mailbox mod, the cheapest mailboxes I could find in my town are $40 so I decided to check out the local thrift stores and found a classic antique steel toolbox, almost identical size to the mailbox...