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  1. ostrichsak

    Wifey Just Got Me a GMG Daniel Boone WiFi for my Birthday!

    Ha!  Thanks everyone!  She's a keeper for sure.  Just celebrated our 10yr wedding anniversary and have been together over half of our lives so I like to think I'm a keeper too.  lulz. I just realized I forgot to post up a pic even though I'm sure everyone here knows what they look like...
  2. Wifey Just Got Me a GMG Daniel Boone WiFi for my Birthday!

    Wifey Just Got Me a GMG Daniel Boone WiFi for my Birthday!

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  4. ostrichsak

    Wifey Just Got Me a GMG Daniel Boone WiFi for my Birthday!

    I've been using a MES30 (30" electric smoker from Masterbuilt for those that aren't in the know) for years now w/mixed results and had always been jealous of my buddy's and their pellet smokers that did stuff I just couldn't do.  Sure, I made some really, really, REALLY good meat with my smoker...
  5. ostrichsak

    Electric or Pellet smoker?

    As a MES30 owner for years now I can say that I'm glad I got it as a cheap entry into a rewarding hobby but my next smoker will likely be a GMG Daniel Boone w/WiFi. I'm tired of how small my smoker is, how worthless it is for hot & fast and the inability to accurately monitor & control my...
  6. ostrichsak

    Help! 2nd Brisket may have smoked too long... Dangerous to eat?!?

    Oops, I mean to say 10lbs.  In fact, it was just shy of that.  A wittle guy. I then chopped off a pound or so of one of the corners of the flat to get it to fit.  It was then placed diagonally on the rack and there was quite a bit of rack exposed.  I wouldn't say there was any more/less rack...
  7. ostrichsak

    Help! 2nd Brisket may have smoked too long... Dangerous to eat?!?

    Sorry, no pics.  It's in the big trash cart in the garage and I'm not climbing in there.  Nothing to see this time really. This brings up a good point and could be the source of my issue.  I foiled and one thing I noticed when I attempted to relocate the therm probe later was that when I moved...
  8. ostrichsak

    Help! 2nd Brisket may have smoked too long... Dangerous to eat?!?

    I'll try to simplify this story but I'm running a MES30 electric smoker and had a 20lb brisket that I smoked.  I used salt & pepper and nothing else.  Poked my Maverick ET-732 temperature probe into the flat and popped it into my MES30 set to 225deg (monitored via Maverick probe) for an...
  9. ostrichsak

    Why is Franklin BBQ in austin so good?

    I tell people that Dickey's is the 'Mcdonalds of BBQ' which isn't necessarily a bad thing IMO.  Sometimes you want quick & cheap BBQ and that's a good option.  We just ate there the other day in fact when we were in a hurry and it sure was better than other quick options nearby.  That being...
  10. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    With all due respect you ruined this thread by turning this into something it never was.  I thanked you for your post, said I would use that as a work-around for my existing unit and then mentioned that MB could have easily prevented this with proper firmware.  Why you felt the need to turn it...
  11. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    I get why you started this thread but I don't get why you appear to be hell bent on starting an argument with me over something as simple as what MB should have done.  I'm not saying they would have put a $100 PID in the MES because they wouldn't need to to rectify the situation.  All they would...
  12. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    You just made my point for me.  You agree that there is a controller that could be equipped that would work better than what MB chose to equip these smokers with.  This is exactly my point and you agree with me you just won't admit it.     Rather than the bare bones controller they chose to run...
  13. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    Then how can you disagree when this is half of my premise about the hardware with the heating element being the other half?
  14. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    I'm not sure I worded my response properly if you felt it was directed at you or your posts.  No need to reread because I agree with your fix 100% as a workaround.  What I was disagreeing with what the other post saying that the equipment was fine.  It is not.  If it was then your workaround...
  15. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    Disagree.  I've had mine swing temps hours after the preheat phase and some would argue that a better controller/heating element wouldn't have that swing during the preheat phase either.  This is the same symptoms of using a heater rated at too many BTU's for the space you wish to heat.  When it...
  16. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    I'm fortune to wake up to my avatar every morning for over a decade now. ;-) My first few smokes I left the pan bare but after cleaning it a couple of times I started lining it w/HD foil first. Sure helps w/clean-up.
  17. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    That's been my experience for the most part as well: once meat temps start to come up things tend to steady which is to be expected with forces at work.
  18. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    That's how mine is right now so I'll probably just leave it and try preheating to 215deg next time and then stepping up to the desired temp once that temp is holding more solid.  Makes perfect sense to me.
  19. ostrichsak

    Avoid Temp Swings in MES (By Bear)

    Good post.  Have you experimented with adding items to the inside of the smoker to see how that affects the swings?  If one were to add a heat-retaining liquid or solid (sand?) to the drip pan in an effort to add more insulation it would take longer to preheat but the swings should be controlled...
  20. ostrichsak

    Something I learned about my MES 30

    Maybe I'm not picturing your situation mentally properly because I foiled my bottom most drip pan (bottom of the smoker, under everything and drains into the rear catcher even though I've never had to drain it) and I don't have those issues.
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