Every time I smoke my experience gets worse and worse. The way this MES40 is set up is not conducive to productive smoking.
The tiny little chip tray holds enough wood to smoke for about 20 minutes. That's a lot of babysitting for a 4-16 hour smoke. (Yes I know I can hook some sort of mod to it, but then why don't I just build my own from the ground up?).
The chips keep going out because the temp reaches the set point and then the element turns off, but many times it doesn't give the fresh chips time to ignite. So it sits with no smoke until I check it. (Yes I know I can use my
AMNPS, but what's the sense of having a chip tray?).
The stupid display is almost unreadable. The 7 segment display is down to about 4 segments each. Is it 240, 230, 250? I don't know. (Yes I know I can drop a probe through the top to monitor, but what's the point of having the MES controller?).
I'm trying to smoke a pork loin for Cuban sandwiches later tonight and I'm about ready to say screw it and throw it in the oven and take the MES40 to the curb for pick up.
Sorry, had to vent to someone, and the wife is sick of me complaining about it. So you all get to hear it LOL. Thanks for listening.