Recent content by zozr

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    Price of Pork These Days

    $4.99/pound here for shoulder lately
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    How Many Mes Owners Here?

    Thanks, thats pretty cool. Do you use pellets or more of a sawdust? 
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    How Many Mes Owners Here?

    Just curious, why use the AMNPS when you're doing hot smoking? Do you use that instead of the chip pan in your mes smoker? 
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    Debating between electric and propane...looking for input

    I prefer propane because of their mechanical simplicity and how easy it is to fix/mod. Simply having the burner and not complicated wiring is a big plus to me.  I didn't want an electric one in case it rained as well, just didn't feel comfortable with that.  As you said unless you're trained...
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    propane tank conversion

    Just curious what is the protocol to safely drill into a former gas tank? Seems like that could be real dangerous. 
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    Brand new 30 in offset kingsford smoker

    Wow that is a great price. Nice work
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    Brand new 30 in offset kingsford smoker

    What sort of unbelievable deal are we talking here? 
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    The Blue Smoke issue....

    Everything I've read says the blue smoke is a good thing! You want the thin blue smoke versus the thick white clouds that make the food bitter. 
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    Problems with my Masterbuilt Electric Smoker 30"

    I very well could be wrong but wouldn't taking the temperature of a surface with a laser therm be different at times than an ambient temperature probe that is taking the actual temp inside?
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    Problems with my Masterbuilt Electric Smoker 30"

    Where are you aiming the laser probe to take the temperature? Not sure that would be accurate for an ambient temp reading unless I'm understanding wrong. 
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    How Many Mes Owners Here?

    I think it has to do with the failure rate of the element and the price is costs to fix it. On gen 1 you can switch out just the heat element but on gen II it requires a whole extra piece to be installed with it which is more expensive.  It's not to say everyone will have problems, just a lot...
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    Propane Smoker Temp Ranges

    Hey Phrett, what model did you get and how high are you able to get it? 
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    Propane Smoker Temp Ranges

    I was having this issue with deciding between electric and propane for a long time. I wanted to maybe smoke sausage sometimes but my deciding factor was I wanted to do whole chickens and chickens with crisp skin which I read was sometimes hard to do with electric because 275 degrees was their...
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    How Many Mes Owners Here?

    I'm new to the forum so a little confused with all these abbreviations. I've realized MES is Masterbuilt Electric Smoker but what is AMNPS? Please ignore, figured it out :)
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