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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    I have sand in my water pan and I cover it with foil.
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    Here's the weird thing...  I also have an Orion cooker.  If you're not familiar with it, it's like a barrel turned on its end with a drip tray in the bottom of it.  You put wood chips between this round drip tray and the outer wall.  Outside of the "drum", there's a sort of tray going all the...
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    Thanks @Bearcarver.  I lit both ends of the AMNPS this time, and there wasn't much smoke flavor.  @jaellman, I'm not comparing this to commercial examples of pulled pork, but from pulled pork that I've tried at friends' houses, etc.  When I cook St. Lous or baby back ribs, for example, they have...
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    Yes.  Against all recommendations of the people on this forum, I have messed with the amount of opening on the vent.  It hasn't made much of a difference for me.  But I thought that your theory made sense, anyway.
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    I never open the door except to put the AMNPS tray and the food inside.  I open it again to put the meat probe into the meat.  I open it once again when I foil the meat at 165F, and I open it one last time when it reaches 205F.  I have not found a need to mop, since it stays moist until the...
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    I use 100% hickory pellets in my AMNPS.  I preheat to 220-230, verified by my Ivation remote probe.  I get the pellets smoker going and I put it in with the meat.  The meat is at refrigerated temperature when I put it on.  I am not worried about the time it takes, because it is only done when it...
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    I should mention that I am always using hickory (when using either pellets or chips) when I am smoking a boston butt.
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    How to get more smoke flavor in a boston butt on the MES?

    Hello all.  I am 6 or so smokes in with my MES 30, and I am getting mixed results.  I have had great luck with getting thinner things, like sausages and ribs, to take on great smoke flavor.  However, I am not getting nearly enough smoke flavor into boston butts.  I have tried using the chip...
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    Mavericks

    If intuition serves me correctly, it seems like it makes the most sense to monitor the temperature on the rack where you are cooking the meat.  It seems like cold meat can be quite a heat sink for a while, though, because I think that I get some falsely low readings in the beginning.  But I'm a...
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    Finally getting the AMNPS working in my MES 30!

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    Finally getting the AMNPS working in my MES 30!

    I had previously been having problems with keeping my amaze-n-pellet smoker lit and producing smoke for any decent length of time.  Today I microwaved the crap out of my pellets and that seems to be the key for me.  Look!  Smoke!  It has been over four hours and it's still going great.  My MES...
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    Second try with pork butt in MES underway now!

    I got the pellet smoker going really well the second time.  In fact, the smoker has been off for over two hours and it's still going!  The pork turned out more like I expected this time.  I wrapped it in foil after it got up to 165, and then I let it go to 190.  It could have probably used more...
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    Second try with pork butt in MES underway now!

    I am using this probe:
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    Second try with pork butt in MES underway now!

    Thanks, @Bearcarver.  Do you have a picture of how you arrange things in your smoker? Drip pan, the AMPS, etc?  Thanks!
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