Has Anyone experienced this?

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boxcardriver

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Jul 12, 2014
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Long Island, NY
During my very first use of my MES 30" I was using cherry wood chips on a couple of chickens at 275 degrees and half way through cooking I had what I can only describe as puff of air coming out of both the vent and the chip loading port.  It did  it a couple of times and I checked the chickens expecting to see that grease had fallen on the element, but everything was normal.  It was very strange. 

Bill
 
You had a backflash, your chips were exploding into flame. You had too much air in the chamber, too dry a chip, too high a heat.

Mine did that one day, I had to do two more times so I could show the neighbor LOL It shouldn;t hurt anything, but it can be a bit dangerous. Just cut you air flow back a little or if chips are extremely dry wet 'em a little before using.
 
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