New Guy With Question

[makesmiles]

My name is David. I am new to this site. I live in South Louisiana between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. I am 65 years old. I am not new to smoking, BBQ or cooking. However, I do have a question. This past weekend I purchased a Masterbuilt 30. I have not used it yet except to cure it. My question is does the smoker shut off automatically when the meat probe temperature reaches the set point or does it keep going until the time expires? Normally, I monitor the probe temp on my other smokers and take the meat off when the probe temperature reaches the desired temp. Do I have to do the same with this smoker? Thanks.

 

[bluewhisper]

Welcome to the board, David! My sister is in Patterson.

Can't answer your MES questions, I'm running an offset stick burner.

 

[Bearcarver]

 
My name is David. I am new to this site. I live in South Louisiana between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. I am 65 years old. I am not new to smoking, BBQ or cooking. However, I do have a question. This past weekend I purchased a Masterbuilt 30. I have not used it yet except to cure it. My question is does the smoker shut off automatically when the meat probe temperature reaches the set point or does it keep going until the time expires? Normally, I monitor the probe temp on my other smokers and take the meat off when the probe temperature reaches the desired temp. Do I have to do the same with this smoker? Thanks.

Welcome Makesmiles!!

The MES models we have so far won't shut themselves off at a particular temp.

That setting is just telling it to stop heating at that point. Then it will fall back about 2 degrees & the heat will start again until it get to the set point again. It will do that until it gets to the time setting or until you shut it down or change the temp setting.

I'm 65 years old too.

Bear

 

[makesmiles]

Thanks for the info. Can't wait to use it to see how it works. Just ordered the cold smoking attachment yesterday. Will be here Wednesday.

 

[gary s]

  Good evening and welcome to the forum, from a cloudy and chilly day in East Texas. Lots of great people with tons of information on just about  everything .

Gary

 

[makesmiles]

Thanks. I have already read a lot. Also, referred a new member today.

 

[themule69]

Glad you joined the group. The search bar at the top of any page is your best friend.
About anything you wanna know about smoking/grilling/curing/brining/cutting or slicing
and the list goes on has probably been posted. Remember to post a QVIEW of your smokes.
We are all smoke junkies here and we have to get our fix. If you have questions
Post it and you will probably get 10 replies with 11 different answers. That is
because their are so many different ways to make great Q...
Happy smoken.
David