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  1. chuckybrown

    MES 30 Electrical Short

    Two weeks ago as I made a bunch of ABT's, I stepped out to warm up my MES 30. I came back in and grabbed an aluminum pan that I needed to mold to fit the bottom as my drip pan. I opened the door of the smoker, and noticed the heating element was bright cherry red. Strange....I'd never seen it...
  2. chuckybrown

    Package vs. Finished Weight

    I'm new to smoking, but have had something going the last four or five weekends since I bought my smoker. I smoked two +/- 8lb pork butts this weekend.   Started out with 16lbs in total, ended up with just under 8lbs of finished product. Is this normal?  That's over half in water weight?  ...
  3. chuckybrown

    13 Hours Later.....IS THIS NORMAL?

    I've had an 8lb butt in the MES 30 smoker since 7 AM, 13 3/4 hours later, internal temperature just hit 172.  I've been very patient, and began mopping it the past two hours. I started out at 230 degrees until about an hour ago, when I turned things up to 250....then 260.  I'm worried that I'm...
  4. chuckybrown

    Yea, so......how to avoid this?

    I got the brisket out before any damage was done. I had only smoked two chickens and one fattie in the MES 30 before today's brisket.  It was on the rack without foil, and  internal temperature had just hit 170 when the fire broke out. It was clear that drippings started the flames. What...
  5. chuckybrown

    Howdy from Sugar Land Texas!

    Yea, so...another hobby is just what a 52 year old guy needs, right? So, here I am.  I love to cook, and wanted to begin to learn to smoking techniques.  I've owned an "old smokey", and various other charcoal smokers over the years.  The past few months I've been scouring the interwebs for an...
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