Wazzat???

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Test run on the junker with smoke generator. I planned on doing 2 whole chickens tonight, the only problem was the store didnt have any whole chickens, only the sickly looking "young" chickens. I think those are really the "organic free range" chickens that they cant sell. anyway. I bought a pkg of leg quarters. The empty pkg with the diaper in it weighed .75#, so I would say these have already been juiced. I plan on running them in the MES until about 135 the tossing them on the Weber Summit Gold (can I call it a WSG or will people think WTF?)

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Homemade apple Chips are burning fast and not feeding very good. Looks like I need to get bigger chunks next time. Good smoke. The MES cranked up on high is taking forever to get up to temp.

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Very unimpressed with the way that the cherry chips hung up in the tube. The only other cherry I have is about 3 years old. I have some apple I can use, but noy my 1st choice for pork loin. I will have to go find some maple I cut down 2 months ago to make bigger chips.. or God forbid.. buy some over priced Treager pellets

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Test #2 - pork loin with a hot Memphis rub and apple pellets. MES is cranked all the way up with 3 layers of welding blanket on it. Low-medium burn on a full tube of pellets. The other half of the loin is getting cured for Canadian Bacon.

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After a quick run up to 375 (on the crappy door gauge or about 300 rack temp), I now have it dialed in for 250. I know that this isnt the way to get a good smoke ring. This test is all about building bark on a crappy electric smoker... and smoke ring shouldnt be a problem.