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  1. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    Final post for the evening...cooked last nights smoke chicken breast, in my usual fry pan recipe cooked in butter and my homemade bacon fat, with chunks of garlic, onion and celery, with some of my home made smoked chipotle powder, ancho powder and smoked habanero powder...after I stopped...
  2. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    Thanks, yes, I fired up the heating element once or twice to keep the smoke moving fairly quickly, certainly not as fast as if I was charcoal or offset stick burning. But for a true cold smoke yes that fan idea sounds good. I’ll know shortly, maybe, there’s still beer in the fridge. 😂 Cheers...
  3. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    A different experiment tonight it’s still in the tray but I forgot that I had bought two large commercial bags of smoking shavings probably 18 years ago now and they’ve been in my leanto since and have not used them ever. The bags are broken and the shavings are everywhere, but I managed to get...
  4. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    Thanks @tallbm Well, there is still some beer left so I am going to try the tray tonight with the same ground up pellet mix so I am comparing apples to apples. I have only tried the tube with ground up pellets. The tray with full pellets is just too much smoke. I can't get LJ here in Canada, at...
  5. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    My neighbor came over for a beers so I didn't actually get to cook the chicken breast, but it got 5 hours of smoke. :emoji_astonished: I was amazed that only half the smoke tube went almost 6 hours, smoke never went blue but smelled good the whole time. Part way thru the engineer in me said it...
  6. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    45 minutes into the smoke, and we have TGS, still waiting for it to turn to B. Very whispy thin grey smoke, smells way batter than the pellet tray with pellets yesterday, temp holding at 100*, ambient is 85. Fingers crossed it goes blue, could be the type of pellets I used for the dust?? I’m...
  7. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    OK I have been reading and studying old threads and remembering some of the things you guys have told me already, so this afternoon‘s experiment, I have ground up a bunch of pellets in my old blender. I have stuffed them into the smoke tube about half full put a few pellets in at the top to...
  8. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    OK last post for the evening, this is excruciatingly painful waiting for the smoker to get up to 350, I think it’s been an hour and it’s only at 296, definitely insulation required and I’m wondering if running the element at 240 would be a detriment do it, It’s easy enough for me to plumb in 240...
  9. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    OK, sorry for another update, but hey, I am learning and maybe somebody else can learn from this too. I taped up the three input holes on the toolbox to shut off the air supply to help heat up the smoker to 350 as there was just too much airflow, and now the stifled pellet dust in the smoke tube...
  10. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    After playing with this all afternoon, I can now see I need to seal the door properly with a gasket and probably seal around the element entry port as that is a big air leak. I’ve plugged the drain hole at the bottom and also the little original exit port at the back near the top, which I’m...
  11. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    And one thing I really need to remember and quit obsessing about is that pellets will never smell like an offset stick burner, which is what I am used to burning real wood. :emoji_disappointed:
  12. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    Thanks guys just got caught up on the past few hours of messages. Yes, I have tried various brands of pellets, although not today, I was just using them in the tray and tube and yes, I had the tray elevated off the bottom of the toolbox about an inch. I gave up on the tray and put it in my...
  13. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    I’m experimenting with a long chimney to see if improving the draft helps, so far smoke is still gray.
  14. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    OK, another day in a different town at a couple of more thrift stores and found another toolbox same size as the mailbox, made all the modifications and connected it this afternoon, and I am now running a load of pellets in the tray, and I am unable to get TBS with my MB mod MES 30, it’s just...
  15. kilohertz

    Best basic electric smoker for DIY PID install

    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...
  16. kilohertz

    Starting my Snack Stick/sausage adventure, may need some guidance.

    I'm just about done my MES30 mods and was thinking I haven't tried making sausage yet, seems like the perfect smoker for this. I have some of the required materials already, let me know what you think of what I have and what may be used or may need to be improved/changed. KitchenAid stand...
  17. kilohertz

    PID Tuning fun MES30

    Thanks! Takes another tech to spot the Metcal. :emoji_sunglasses: I have been into electronics my whole life, we used those at the mfrg place I worked at 20 years ago, it's been flawless since I got it. I haven't figured out the best way to implement the thermocouple yet, I have tried holding...
  18. kilohertz

    PID Tuning fun MES30

    I think I became a lifetime member this weekend ha ha. Decided to do the D parameter tuning another time, had too many things on the go today buns are rising potato salad is made pork shoulder is at 201° several beers I’ve been consumed the sun is down just need to make the finishing sauce for...
  19. kilohertz

    My first pulled pork shoulder on the Kamado

    I got so wrapped up in tuning the PID and my new analog Mes30, that I forgot to post my first pork shoulder roast on the Kamado smoker. I started it about 11 this morning with a good load of lump charcoal, as well as a few briquets with applewood and hickory chips mixed throughout. Started at...
  20. kilohertz

    PID Tuning fun MES30

    Here is my MES30 analog...I added the stack on top, cut a 3" hole in the bottom for the future mailbox mod, in the meantime, I put a piece of sheet metal on the bottom so I can adjust the air intake. I cut the original rack holders removing 1.5" from each section, re-welded them and added 3 more...
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