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    It's a sad sad day at my house!

    Did that a while back with a good bottle of wine. Watched in slowly fall out, head toward the floor and shatter like a grenade.
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    Stopped getting notifications on my subscribed threads

    Most of you guys are who I subscribe too but have not gotten the faithful digest version that comes at least once a day.  Your responses above should have come in an email with each one of the responses listed.
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    "Real" Jambalaya!

    @tbrtt1- I found it...should have looked harder. Looking forward to trying it. Being a spreadsheet kinda guy I can say that it is a work of art.
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    Has Anyone Fooled the MES Temp Sensor Before?

    Sigmo - Thank you for taking the time to share so many significant thoughts. I like checking the temps inside the MES and have found there are so many things beyond the design of the MES that cause variations in every smoke that the thing to do is relax, set it up like the last time the meat was...
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    Help I ran out of propane

    I would expect it will be ok. What will matter IMHO is what temp was the smoker at when you put it in and what was the temp of the outer layer of meat when you put it into the over. Also, you might want the over to be set a bit higher than the smoker (maybe 325) for an hour or so to kill...
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    Hi, from Sunny Texas!

    Yup. I am off 249 in the Willowbrook Mall area.  Sounds like you had more to fix and clean with the used MES than I did. You also paid a lot less. Mine cleaned up just fine. I have the small drip pan that hangs off the back but it has never caught anything as I used an aluminum pan under butts...
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    Hi, from Sunny Texas!

    Hi - I am also from Houston. A great supplier for all things sausage and more is Allied Kenco Sales just off IH45 (take the Airline exit) north of IH610 North. As for a smoker I like my MES 40, Gen. 2.5. As you read about smokers here those abbreviations and numbers will make sense.  To get you...
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    Cream Cheese Stuffed Everything Bagel and Muffaletta...A Tale of Two Tenderloins

    I love a dish that looks sinful...and surely will taste the same. Points!
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    Cleaning a Cast Iron Pan - Using water and electricity

    Like BBQ forums, where there are many ways professed as the best way to make Q "the right way", there are also CI cookware forums where they also debate how things should be done. I suggest you find one of them you like and learn there. I would not go to one of them and ask how to smoke meat.  I...
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    Has Anyone Fooled the MES Temp Sensor Before?

    I have a MES 40-2.5 and used a 1/4 aluminum sheet pan from the restaurant supply as the bottom deflector. Fit is almost perfect but I had to cut the corners on one side and bend it down to fit over the water pan. The sheet pan fits fairly snugly although there are small gaps around the edges...
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    Cleaning a Cast Iron Pan - Using water and electricity

    I have cleaned quite a few old CI cookware pieces using electrolysis and a 6amp battery charger. Your using the 20 amp will make it go faster. I found that if I turn the skillet so both sides get to face the plate then it seems to be more evenly cleaned. But, that could be due to my lower amp...
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    "Real" Jambalaya!

    @tbrtt1  Been driving across LA from Houston to Mobile for many years and always enjoy the food and learning new things about the history. Thanks for your lesson in red vs brown jambalaya. I guess the Mods did not like the idea of your posting the spreadsheet so could you PM it to me? It sounds...
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    Getting into smoking to save my wallet.

    Throw in some cheese and salmon to smoke for appetizers and you are way out front -- and a bigger hero.
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    Hello from Texas

    Welcome from another smoker in north Houston. Often in Tomball at TSC. Looks like we will have a good weekend coming for smoking something.
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    Cold smoking a little salmon

    For us newbies to cold smoking we would appreciate a quick run down on what you have in the smoker. I am like you as I want to do more than just one thing. Life is too short to only smoke one "something" at a time. But, the meat is too expensive to screw it up...at least screw it up too badly...
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    Seasoning after curing and before smoking

    Dave - I like the simplicity in your response. I want to clarify for myself and others that you are talking about a dry cure; i.e. not a water emersion cure. Right? 
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    MES 40 Cleaning

    You make a good point. But, seeing what's cooking, how it is getting color, is it drying out, is it falling through the grates, is all good for my peace of mind. Besides, I have to get up to check it and that is why I got another beer or glass of wine while I was up. 
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    MES 40 Cleaning

    The easiest way I found to clean the glass is to wipe it with diluted Dawn to soften the creosote. Then use a single blade razor to cut it off. A second wipe with the diluted Dawn gets what is left and you are done.  The advantage to me of a clean glass is that I see how things are doing. I...
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    Hard time keeping AMAZN tray lit

    There is a lot of great advice above but I want to add my experience as I also live in Houston. Humidity is the fatal issue for me.  Even though I keep the pellets and dust in the house with the AC going 8 months out of the year I still have to zap the pellets in the microwave twice for two...
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    Help, cure quantitys and #1 cure

    Dave - Thanks for the recommendation of the scale. Ordered it and the 100 gm calibration weight. 
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