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Participating in this forum, I noticed everyone is concerned about food safety. While I am as well, I'm usually only cooking for the wife an myself, so while certain precautions are in order, we don't really need to worry about health regualtions for cooking for the masses. That said, if anyone...

I just got the Winn-Dixie sale info for this week. Starting tomorrow, Fri, 1/7, through Sunday, 1/9, (Weekend Specials), pork butts are on sale for $.99 a pound. Haven't seen that price for a while. Limit 2. This is in the Orlando, FL area. I'm not sure if it's in all areas with W-D.

Always wanted to try bacon, so a couple of weeks ago I went to Costco. They were just putting a fresh shipment of pork belly out. I grabbed the biggest one I could find which was 11.18 pounds or 5172 grams. Came home and split it in about 2 equal pieces, Okay, so one was 2566 grams and the...

So, after my initial issues with my Masterbuilt MES440/s smoker, I smoked another monster pork butt. Winn_Dixie had butts for $.99 last weekend, so grabbed some. In fact a 22 pounder. Started te 8 AM and at 8 PM decided it was time to pull them, wrap them, and throw them in the oven. IT was...

For anyone that has a Rural King in their area, Lumberjack pellets are on sale. Regular price: $8.88 / 20# bag Sale Price: $6.99 / 20# bag AND Winn-Dixie has bone-in whole pork butts on sale this weekend for $.99 / pound. I grabbed 6 of them, and figured I'm going to smoke them on my MES440 on...

Today is the day. Rubbed the butts yesterday, and pulled them out this morning after I pulled the smoker out of the garage. And wouldn't you know it, a light drizzle. Electrics and water don't mix well. So pulled the smoker into the front lanai. Powered her up, got it up to temp of 275 within...

So here goes my new MES440s initial burn-in. So far, I'm impressed. Came up to temp of 275 in about 20 minutes. The Bluetooth app works great. The smoker is sitting in my front lanai, and I've walked around the whole house without losing connection. For those of you wondering about getting to...

A little background. Back in Wisconsin, in 1980, I bought one of those no-name offset smokers. Spent the time on the learning curve, Loved sitting with it all day figuring out how to compensate for temperature swings, and proper amount of smoke. Filled it with oak, and had people drooling as...