- Nov 26, 2009
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After many years with my MES 30" gen 1 smoker (guessing it has been around 8 years), I am finally considering upgrading. The main reason I am looking to upgrade is capacity. There have been too many times that friends were coming over and I just couldn't fit enough food in the smoker. With that said, the MES has served me well and I have been happy with it.
During my search for a comparable smoker, I found the MES 40" gen 2.5 smoker with remote. I was actually planning to pull the trigger and actually bought a cold smoker attachment on sale at Amazon yesterday figuring it would work with both my old smoker and the new 40". Just before ordering the MES 40", I stumbled across the Smoke Hollow 40" smoker and started second guessing my decision.
I like several things about the Smoke Hollow:
Not a lot of reviews online. Most are after one or two uses. Looking for opinions.
I really appreciate any input.
Nick
During my search for a comparable smoker, I found the MES 40" gen 2.5 smoker with remote. I was actually planning to pull the trigger and actually bought a cold smoker attachment on sale at Amazon yesterday figuring it would work with both my old smoker and the new 40". Just before ordering the MES 40", I stumbled across the Smoke Hollow 40" smoker and started second guessing my decision.
I like several things about the Smoke Hollow:
- Ability to add water without opening the door
- Larger capacity chip tray - easy to empty without opening the door.
- Ability to add 4 additional racks (for a total of 8)
- Dual burner design (although I don't know the total wattage)
- Range of bluetooth is low (MES wireless remote appears to have a better range).
- Not sure if the temp accuracy is similar/better than MES
- Reliability of controller
- Says can cold smoke as low as 50 degrees. Not sure that this will work as well as external MES cold smoke attachment.
Not a lot of reviews online. Most are after one or two uses. Looking for opinions.
I really appreciate any input.
Nick