Sad, but true...especially on New Years Day! Here's the tale...
Fired up the MAK at 7:30 last night, but it kept tripping the breaker. Went online and found that the igniter was likely bad, so I unhooked it, put a small handful of pellets in the firebox, lit the pellets with a torch, put everything back in the cooker, then set to Smoke. By 8, the MAK was smoking away and the brisket was ready to be put on the cooker, so in it went. I then changed the Pellet Boss to my User 1, which is set to smoke for 2 hours, then go to 220 and stay there.
-At 4am, I got up and checked and the PB was flashing 60* and Igniting. Meat temp was 90*
-I cleaned out the MAK, whose firebox was overflowing of pellets and went thru the manual fire up again and set the PB to 220. I checked a half hour later and all seemed to be going well and at 6am, I left for a couple of hours. When I returned at 8:30, the MAK was trying to reignite again and the Firebox was full.
-This time, I put a 1/2 hand full of pellets in the box and restarted at Smoke. After 1/2 hour, I moved it up to 210. After 1/2, I moved it up to 225 and so on and now it's noon and the MAK is up to 300.
Since the brisket may be salvageable, I'm trying to reach 350, to do a high temp cook. I don't know though, since the meat stayed between 90 and 100 for so long...but I don't know.
Also, I wrote the painful details in hopes that someone can tell me where I went wrong and why the box kept overflowing. Oh...last night got down to low 40's.
Please, someone, help and explain. Thanks
Fired up the MAK at 7:30 last night, but it kept tripping the breaker. Went online and found that the igniter was likely bad, so I unhooked it, put a small handful of pellets in the firebox, lit the pellets with a torch, put everything back in the cooker, then set to Smoke. By 8, the MAK was smoking away and the brisket was ready to be put on the cooker, so in it went. I then changed the Pellet Boss to my User 1, which is set to smoke for 2 hours, then go to 220 and stay there.
-At 4am, I got up and checked and the PB was flashing 60* and Igniting. Meat temp was 90*
-I cleaned out the MAK, whose firebox was overflowing of pellets and went thru the manual fire up again and set the PB to 220. I checked a half hour later and all seemed to be going well and at 6am, I left for a couple of hours. When I returned at 8:30, the MAK was trying to reignite again and the Firebox was full.
-This time, I put a 1/2 hand full of pellets in the box and restarted at Smoke. After 1/2 hour, I moved it up to 210. After 1/2, I moved it up to 225 and so on and now it's noon and the MAK is up to 300.
Since the brisket may be salvageable, I'm trying to reach 350, to do a high temp cook. I don't know though, since the meat stayed between 90 and 100 for so long...but I don't know.
Also, I wrote the painful details in hopes that someone can tell me where I went wrong and why the box kept overflowing. Oh...last night got down to low 40's.
Please, someone, help and explain. Thanks