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    Venting out of the garage

    Yes hot smoke rises. As the smoke cools it will condense. That how we make moon... I mean, distillers make whiskey.  I am not physicist, what I expect will happen is a lot of the smoke will exit the exhaust system. The condensate <should> dribble outside on the ground if the exit through the...
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    MES Mailbox Mod! for use with AMNPS

    For me the tubing is a matter of flexibility, not necessity. It makes it easy to switch between the MB for long or cold smokes, and the chip feeder for short hot smokes. From a structural standpoint, I'd be worried about the weight of the MB and AMNPS eventually pulling the screws out of the...
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    Hi There!

    Hi Robin, 1. No you do not have to put water in when you're smoking. I've never used water in either my MES-30 or MES-40. Some people put sand in their water pan to create a heat sink so the temperature recovers more quickly when they open/close the door (for whatever reason). I cover mine with...
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    Smoking Disasters / Have you ever ruined anything you smoked?

    Other than my first set of baby back ribs, everything has been edible. Some had a lot of room for improvement. With the ribs (first smoke), I thought, why not keep the vent closed? Keep all that wonderful smoke in the smoker! Pretty tar-y tasting ribs.
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    Tips for MES Owners

    With what do you measure the inside temperature? If you're using the built in probe on the back panel of the MES for control, you might want to clean that area. As a rule of thumb, I don't clean the inside of my smoker. At least, not either of the two I've had so far.
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    Scale weirdness

    Help out a home boy. I have a kitchen scale. Supposed to be very accurate according to other people. Recently my wife came home with a 2# tri-tip. I had the scale out, and weighed it. Either the store ripped us off or my scale was inaccurate. It weighed about 1.5#. I'm getting ready to make...
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    Custom Thermometer build

    Where did you land on this?  I have both the iGrill and iDevice. I have used as many as 4 probes of the 6. The iGrill allows me to plot time / temp and save the data as a csv and pdf file.  A probe in each pork butt is overkill. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. 128540 I'm thinking...
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    Curing Chamber - Raspberry Pi - Humidity Fluctuation?

    I'm now following this thread, so I'll get notified if you update here. Temperature control will be simpler than the curing chamber you made.  I took a look at https://github.com/jamesgao/kiln_controller I did control systems when I graduated. Then I started doing management stuff. Now I'm...
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    Curing Chamber - Raspberry Pi - Humidity Fluctuation?

    I'm looking at adding a Raspberry Pi to my smoker for better control. Did you post you BOM and / or how you went about building your curing system? Don
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    Tri-tip amaze-n-pellet smoke in my Masterbuilt

    Pictures! We want to see pictures! Oh, and how did it turn out?
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    Tri-tip amaze-n-pellet smoke in my Masterbuilt

    Earlier this year we stopped in the La Jolla, CA farmers market. We'd heard of tri-tip, but never EXPERIENCED it. Then this happened. We got hooked. Santa Maria tri-tip is cooked slowly  open over red oak. In an effort to be similar, I've been smoking with oak, but I use chips from bourbon...
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    Fruit Wood Chips For MES - What do you use?

    Ted, I checked, and I have Pecan, Cherry and Apple Cowboy chips from Lowe's. I've not had any issues using them. The nut/fruit chips get used for the "in between smokes" like smoking Canadian Bacon. That said ... As Chef JimmyJ said, I mainly use an Amazen Pellets 18" tube smoker with the...
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    MES-40 Model 20070512 Temperature Problems

    Lately I've been practicing my brisket smoking. Normally I have guests and I play with the smoker temp to get the brisket to rest about 2 hours before the party. Friday I smoked a practice brisket. It's just like a real brisket, but with no party time to aim for. I put the iGrill probes in the...
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