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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    Hey all, I wanted to follow up now that I was finally able to re-test with lithium batteries. I ran it overnight last night - brisket flat, brisket point, and a picnic shoulder on my WSM. The weather wasn't as cold as I would have liked for a true test but still overall the unit ran fine. Temps...
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    Can’t get my temps back up.

    Were you able to get your temp back up? I typically see a drop when i add my meat to the WSM as well. But thats because i've lifted the lid and disrupted the stability along with adding cold meat. Usually for me it will start coming back up in a little bit. Occasionally i'll have to go out there...
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    Favorite Brisket Trimming Knife

    I use this one: I'm sure there are better ones out there, but this does the job for me. Love the reactions whipping this bad larry out of the drawer too, people think i'm wielding a katana.
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    For the folks that also have Party Q's, whats your process for adding meat to the smoker? or checking on meat? Do you turn the unit off? or let it continue to run? With ours, on our first cook i had left it running, pulled the lid to add our meat, and later noticed the temp had skyrocketed. At...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    Yeah i definitely have some renewed excitement to try again. Those lithiums are supposed to run at -40 so if the cold was my issue before, that should fix it. Now if the same or similar thing happens again, i'm going to have a big WTF moment thinking maybe i have a problematic model or...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    I could but where i run into trouble is when we want to run a long cook like for a brisket, where its almost best to start the night before. Or really early in the morning. But i also want to be able to sleep instead of monitoring for drops and spikes all night. So that was the hope with the...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    I discovered that both sets of batteries we used were in fact alkaline. Both were energizer, one was the industrial variation that came with the kit. But according to the information provided by support and browneyes it looks like alkaline will suffer performance problems in extreme cold. As...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    I'll have to give it another try with different batteries i think... Thing is, i like the convenience of the product. Its mobile and straightforward. When it works anyway lol. I mean when it was working it did perform as i would have expected, it kept my temp relatively within 10 degrees. Which...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    Heres what i received from support: Our controls are specified to operate at 41F to 104F (with 80% relative humidity) at an altitude up to 1.25 miles. All of the components of the controls themselves are rated from -4F to 176F. Now this doesn’t mean that they won’t operate under different...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    So it should have worked fine then... now you have me curious now though, i'll have to check the batteries when i get home to see what kind. I know when we looked, the dates were fairly current. Both sets were energizer but i don't recall which variation they were. Wondering if maybe i received...
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    Issues with the BBQ Guru Party Q in cold weather?

    Hello, For Christmas i received a BBQ Guru Party Q temperature controller that i could use with my WSM. I was all excited and attempted to test it out this past weekend with a pork shoulder. I live in the New England area so the temps were pretty cold this time of year. This past weekend we...
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    Had some trouble with my brisket :)

    Thanks for all the help guys, this was very informative. I'm looking forward to my next attempt now! 
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    Had some trouble with my brisket :)

    There was some good moisture content but the tenderness just wasn't really there. The layer in between the two layers of fat was tender. But the meat on the bottom was tough. I didn't think about this before but i forgot to check if it was a select cut or choice. I'm guessing it was select...
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    Had some trouble with my brisket :)

    New smoker here. Cooked a brisket flat over the weekend. My first time. I felt like I hit the right temps and followed the right procedure but it still came out rather tough. It was 3.5 pounds... so it was relatively small. I'm using a WSM 18.5. I'll walk you through what I did and maybe you can...
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