- Feb 24, 2015
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Hi all, I have had 2 MES that have served me well, but both are dying. My buddy, being the cool dude he is, bought me an MES Adventure Series 140S for $249 at Cabelas. It is a 40" which is what I really need (my old ones were 30"). It looks like this:
The one I really have been looking at is the MES 40" with bluetooth (model 20075315 ), but unfortunatly I have only seen it on sams club website (and I dont have a sams membership.) Its only about $50 more at $299. It looks like this:
I should just be happy I got a nice 40" smoker as a gift, and I am happy.. but part of me wants to try to figure out how to trade in the gifted smoker for the one I really want at Sams. there are 2 problems tho:
He used Cabelas gift cards to offset the cost of the gifted smoker, so if I were to return it, I would likely get cabelas gift cards that I cant use at sams.. problem 2 is im going to be smoking a brisket for fridays game in it, and the one from sams is online only and wont arrive until early December.
Lastly, if I keep the gifted smoker, what does one do for a break in? Fire it up for a couple hours at 275 to burn off whatever factory funk might be in it?
The one I really have been looking at is the MES 40" with bluetooth (model 20075315 ), but unfortunatly I have only seen it on sams club website (and I dont have a sams membership.) Its only about $50 more at $299. It looks like this:
I should just be happy I got a nice 40" smoker as a gift, and I am happy.. but part of me wants to try to figure out how to trade in the gifted smoker for the one I really want at Sams. there are 2 problems tho:
He used Cabelas gift cards to offset the cost of the gifted smoker, so if I were to return it, I would likely get cabelas gift cards that I cant use at sams.. problem 2 is im going to be smoking a brisket for fridays game in it, and the one from sams is online only and wont arrive until early December.
Lastly, if I keep the gifted smoker, what does one do for a break in? Fire it up for a couple hours at 275 to burn off whatever factory funk might be in it?