Future MAK 2 Star Owner

J.O.

New member
Buying a new house next month and planning on getting a MAK 2 Star for the back deck. I saw a Traeger a couple of weeks ago at one of my client's homes and couldn't believe I hadn't seen something like it before.

I grew up in Fort Worth loving Texas BBQ and knew when I got a new home here in Colorado with room for a smoker I would get one, but I thought it would be something with a steep learning curve that I had to learn to use and tend to all hours of the day/night to make great BBQ. I also had never figured out how I would get good hardwood in a land full of pine trees nor did I want to tend to a smoker at all hours when I live in a very, very cold ski resort town with long winters. Then I found out about Pellet Smokers and have spent the last couple weeks reading and researching everything I can. The thought of a smoker with wood I can easily have shipped to our small resort town which will run for hours without a babysitter has me very excited.

Then tonight I ate at a new BBQ place in town and it really reinforced my desire to get my own smoker. The meat was dry and overcooked and the sauces didn't do it for me. And I spent $20 for two small meat portions and two sides.

As soon as we close on our home next month the order will be placed for the Mak 2 Star.
 

RickB

New member
Buying a new house next month and planning on getting a MAK 2 Star for the back deck. I saw a Traeger a couple of weeks ago at one of my client's homes and couldn't believe I hadn't seen something like it before.

I grew up in Fort Worth loving Texas BBQ and knew when I got a new home here in Colorado with room for a smoker I would get one, but I thought it would be something with a steep learning curve that I had to learn to use and tend to all hours of the day/night to make great BBQ. I also had never figured out how I would get good hardwood in a land full of pine trees nor did I want to tend to a smoker at all hours when I live in a very, very cold ski resort town with long winters. Then I found out about Pellet Smokers and have spent the last couple weeks reading and researching everything I can. The thought of a smoker with wood I can easily have shipped to our small resort town which will run for hours without a babysitter has me very excited.

Then tonight I ate at a new BBQ place in town and it really reinforced my desire to get my own smoker. The meat was dry and overcooked and the sauces didn't do it for me. And I spent $20 for two small meat portions and two sides.

As soon as we close on our home next month the order will be placed for the Mak 2 Star.

Your going to love it. And the best place to buy it is Big Poppas of course.
 

Rip

New member
Welcome to the forum! The MAK2 is an awesome machine, the improvements for 2012 are killer!
 

ACW3

New member
As an owner of a MAK 2 Star, I can say that you will become a backyard rock star once you start cooking on your MAK. When the blue smoke starts rolling, you will find you have a lot of friends and soon-to-be-friends. The trick is to get them to pay for the meat. Good luck with that.

Art
 

Salmonsmoker

New member
Welcome J.O. You'll need something to occupy yourself during those long winters. Hmmm....cold ski resort town...dead of winter...you're not writing a book are you? REDRUM! DADDY'S HOME!
 

J.O.

New member
Welcome J.O. You'll need something to occupy yourself during those long winters. Hmmm....cold ski resort town...dead of winter...you're not writing a book are you? REDRUM! DADDY'S HOME!
We aren't that remote but the hotel that movie was based on is just over the mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park from us. You can reserve the "haunted" room at the hotel if you want a "special" visit. The actual hotel it was filmed at is somewhere else.
 

Salmonsmoker

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The outside front of the hotel is from here in Wa. state. A hotel built by CCC workers during the depression. The inside shots are the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. We digress.:) :)
 
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