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Working like a champ. It's funny how when I watched YouTube videos and saw the display flashing I thought it was wierd that mine didn't do it. Now I know that it's only when you take a pic or video of it. The red reads 130.9and the green reads 130
This guy. Although at higher temps it evened out well, it needs more control at lower temps to keep from creeping up. Just keeps me from babysitting so much and gave me an excuse to build a controller.
Anyone guess what I'm having for dinner? Yay ribs. The two butts are for later. Figured I'd pull them and split the meat into 1 lb bags so when I want to do a pizza or some nachos I'd have some on hand.
I would say if you wanted to use those temps, the hot plate would be enough. I have two in my smoker but usually only use one at 3/4 power for 180*. Should've clarified that in my first post when I said I would think 1000w plate would be plenty. Good luck!
I think the 1000w plate will be plenty. I cold smoked some cheese last weekend when it was 12 degrees and the amazen tube held the smoker around 75ish. Granted, my smoker is insulated but with 40 degrees you may not need the plate at all if your goal is just to cold smoke.
I thought I would give cheese a try today. Ended up smoking 6 blocks of cheese. Since it was 13* today, I preheated the smoker to 50* and put the cheese and my smoke tube in. Just the pellets burning brought the temp to 75* within an hour and it held there for the rest of the smoke. I'll vacuum...
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