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The air flow draw through these units are very bad so leaving the 3" hole where the chip loader goes may not be so bad after all. Then get an Amaz-in-smoker pellet tray or tide and smoke with pellets. I also used a 12" piece of aluminum roof flashing rolled into tube to make a chimney I stuck in...
I like the installation...nice and clean. I'm not familiar with the physical dimensions of the Bradley smoke unit...did you have to do more than use a 3" hole saw to go through the side of your MES? Can you give a little more detail on how you built it?
Thank you.
Don
Just a follow-up to yesterday's smoke. Smoked the breasts for about 8 hours until they reached 165 internal. Wrapped in foil, placed in insulated cooler for another hour or so (not by plan but other dishes were not ready).
Breasts had a nice golden brown color and were nice and juicy. Got rave...
Thanks Tallbm...well I gutted the smoker and nuked the pellets for 2 1/2 stirred for a few minutes and finished with a other 2 1/2 minutes. I did use a clear glass casserole dish to heat the pellets in. Your point is well taken however.
The good news is that between the gutting of the smoker...
Thanks for the reply Tallbm. Appreciate the disassembly confirmation. I have tried nuking the pellets before though not for the time/sequence you describe. Saw a YouTube video last night where a guy microwaved them for 2 1/2 min, stirred and go finished with another 2 1/2 mins.
Going to try...
Thanks Dave. Run a test bird Monday. Turned out nicely Juciey due to brine but once again I had a hard time keeping pellets burning. So I'm still not getting enough air flow. I did elevate the amps tray. Going to try and remove the chip tray and drip shield from around the heating element to see...
I still haven't been able to try it but on slowest speed there is very little air moving. I'll post back here with results of first rest run. I have never had enough air flow for the pellets to remain burning. I did see you have your pellet tray elevated with carriage bolt legs. I am also going...
Hi Dave,
I am experimenting with pressurized air flow. I cut a 3" hole in the mailbox door and attached a variable speed axial flow fan to force air through the box via the dryer vent pipe into the MES.
Weather has not cooperated enough yet to test but I hope to have bugs worked out for turkey...
Never done that but I would think that if you everything sealed good with some good duct tape it should work just fine. You might also try an electric fan blowing from inside the garage out over the smoker to blow the smoke away from you.
Franko...I also forgot...when I said 225 degrees that was using the MES 40 2.5 builtin smoker temp display. Internal was also obtained first using builtin meat probe and I then checked that immediately with a hand held digital instant read probe and it also read 165 dead on. Just wanted to be...
Hi Franko...internal temp was dead on 165 when I pulled them off. I'm thinking about trying them again this weekend to see if I can get the same response from my Sweetie 128521!
Slickyboyboo...I have my drip pan covered with aluminum foil to make clean up easy including the drain hole so nothing actually drains into the pullout collection tray on the bottom outside front of my MES40. I have never noticed if there is a threaded fitting on the bottom but I'll try and...