I'm looking at picking up a MES 40 from Sam's Club and I had a few questions I couldn't quite find the answers from in older posts.
Weather resistance; I don't have a garage or a shed I can easily move it in and out of but I can stuff it in my airstream for the winter. will just putting a cover over it for the summer be sufficient? It doesn't rain that much up here (~11" or so a year).
Cold Smoking; I haven't done any cold smoking yet but I would like to. It sounds like getting an AMNPS is the way to go for cold smoking. If you are using them (MES 40 and AMNPS) together for cold smoking do you just not turn the MES 40 on at all?
Temp Probes; I noticed allot of people also use the Maverick ET-732. Is the built in probe on the MES 40 faulty or does the Maverick just have more desirable features?
Finally, I'm planning on mostly smoking sausage and bacon though I'm sure I'll branch out to pretty much everything else. Does anyone have anything particularly useful for those things?
thanks
JNorth
Weather resistance; I don't have a garage or a shed I can easily move it in and out of but I can stuff it in my airstream for the winter. will just putting a cover over it for the summer be sufficient? It doesn't rain that much up here (~11" or so a year).
Cold Smoking; I haven't done any cold smoking yet but I would like to. It sounds like getting an AMNPS is the way to go for cold smoking. If you are using them (MES 40 and AMNPS) together for cold smoking do you just not turn the MES 40 on at all?
Temp Probes; I noticed allot of people also use the Maverick ET-732. Is the built in probe on the MES 40 faulty or does the Maverick just have more desirable features?
Finally, I'm planning on mostly smoking sausage and bacon though I'm sure I'll branch out to pretty much everything else. Does anyone have anything particularly useful for those things?
thanks
JNorth