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[briney]

Hey all, just joined after reading these forums for great advice for a few months. Just bought jeffs rub and sauce recipes and will be smoking ribs in my MES tomorrow :grilling_smilie:

I'm curious and love to experiment. I love trying new recipes for rubs and sauces, dry/wet brining, cold/hot smoking, making sausage and grilling up tasty meats for entertaining as I'm sure most of us do!

I will create posts of some of my trials and successes in hopes to give a little back after taking from the forum for a while now.

Happy smoking friends!

 

[joe black]

Welcome from SC, Briney. It's good to have you here on this great site.

 

[SmokinAl]

Welcome to the forum Briney.

Glad you finally decided to join us.

Al

 

[bigfish68]

Welcome Briney...

Looks like we joined at almost the same time...  Good luck with all the Q'ing you will be doin'.

Just put a pork butt on at 0700 and time to read some posts here.

Big Fish

 

[Bearcarver]

Hey all, just joined after reading these forums for great advice for a few months. Just bought jeffs rub and sauce recipes and will be smoking ribs in my MES tomorrow

I'm curious and love to experiment. I love trying new recipes for rubs and sauces, dry/wet brining, cold/hot smoking, making sausage and grilling up tasty meats for entertaining as I'm sure most of us do!

I will create posts of some of my trials and successes in hopes to give a little back after taking from the forum for a while now.

Happy smoking friends!

Welcome Briney!! 

Glad you joined us!

Here's some easy stuff to do with that MES of yours:

Just click on "Bear's Step by Steps".

Bear

 

[briney]

Thanks Bear! I'm reading your excellent posts, learning a lot! It looks like I unfortunately have the gen2 MES 40, but it's been treating me well for over a year now. The temps can be all over the place to start, but once it's going steady it seems to hold fairly well.. Maybe I got lucky?

 

[Bearcarver]

Thanks Bear! I'm reading your excellent posts, learning a lot! It looks like I unfortunately have the gen2 MES 40, but it's been treating me well for over a year now. The temps can be all over the place to start, but once it's going steady it seems to hold fairly well.. Maybe I got lucky?

If you do run into trouble (due to that slanted drip plate), what I've been recommending is to remove the slanted drip plate & small water pan.

Then put the bottom grill rack in & put a foil pan (9" X 12") in the middle of the rack to soften the direct heat rising.

Bear