Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

mmmmhmmm. They must have realized people were able to mod it and took that little piece out. What a shame

 

I don't think that's it either.

 

To be honest it’s probably that and the $0.75 a grill they save not including it. Gotta love the bean counters. (No offense if anyone here is one)

 

I'm so sad haha. All that work for nothing! I'm curious if you could buy one and hook it up? But I don't know how to circuit board so I'd probably end up fuckin somethin up and making it inoperable haha

 

Looking at Curtb’s there is a header there that the daughter board pushes down on. You’re isn’t just missing the daughter board it’s missing the header also and my guess is that daughter board contains the WiFi chip and radios on it. So in essence you have the main controller board (motherboard) but none of the WiFi circuitry.

 

It's strange because in my first pic, it has that little gold spot and says WiFi on it. So it would make me believe that there has to be WiFi. Maybe they updated the boards or something? I don't know. Sad days. But oh well. Making burgers tomorrow without WiFi like a chump. I'm sure they'll still taste the same

 

Right, and they charge $140 more for the wifi model. For a board, wire and antenna.

 

Still got time for Rec Tec.

 

Nope! Already bought and test fired the GMG! There's no going back now! And then I'd have to wait for shipping and pay more. Fuck that nonsense! I have a perfectly good working (I'm assuming) grill ready to get some burgers goin tomorrow!

 

Ya but now you have to walk to it to change temps and stuff. I mean how stoneage can you get.

I’m building a Raspberry Pi based PID controller for mine so I can get WiFi.

 

I think he told you to GTFO!

 

That's thinkin outside the box! Or in the box, technically

 

No no no, that was @dan0mite ! @Kanyon71 can stay. He helped me through all my Traeger troubles

 

They will taste the same. I changed my home network around about a year ago when my oldest son moved back in, he was level 2 tech support for Apple and had to work through a VPN every day. I do most days to where I work, but not at Apple. Never did change my ATC Wifi connection until he left 2 weeks ago for a startup Company in Boston. I had to walk outside in below zero weather to change settings. If I wanted to. Didn't really want to much LOL. Did set it up last weekend for the ribs I did and will use it going forward. Don't think realized how much I missed it until I started using it again.

Have the wifi gateway controller for the ThermoPro Smoke bought on sale more than a year ago. Still haven't set it up

Don't you get enough of that at work?! At one time had to change the wires on the memory board jumpers to get an additional 128KB of memory for some apps to run. On the mainframe. Had enough of that a long, long time ago. And have moved away from that venue a long time ago also, but still have a foot in the door. Some days like today both feet.

I may have looked into doing the same exact thing as you 2 vertical electric smokers well insulated with pull out trays. One PID. One cabinet for jerky and another for fish, smoked tons (literally) of salmon, steelhead and trout in an old electric Chief from the late 70's until the early 90's. Back when luhr jensen owned the Chief lines and they were decent. Well decent enough and better than they are today. I could rip apart 2 MES's, insulate them and have a killer combo run off from one PID. Because if you do enough salmonids in a smoker it does effect the flavor of everything else after that. Not that I ever day dream about such things when sitting in meetings that bore me to tears...

 

You'll be just fine without wifi now that you've got a functional grill. No reason you can't drink just as many beers without being able to check from your phone

I can see some sort of ramp cooking maybe needing it but for all of the smoking I've done on mine in the past many years I set the temp & forget it.

I do cheat a bit and have a remote readout thermometer I keep in the house as we get close to being done.

 

Funny thing is I do see enough tech at work but when it’s for a cool project for me or a friend I’m all over it. Built a controller for my friend to use in a propane smoker we’re building out of an old commercial fridge. hopefully in a few months we will get to fire that up for the first time

 

Those PID controllers are pretty killer. Solid state relays & probe & controller for like $30 on Amazon. I set one up on a funky old stainless meal cart thing as a smoker a few years back and we use them at work to replace any temp controllers that fail on specialized science equipment too.

I'll see if I can find any pics of that old cart thing

 

Hell ya! I can’t wait to fire it up tomorrow and have some burgers. Never done burgers on a pellet before.

The GMG came with a bunch of good recipes too. They got this thing they call the fattie. Basically ground breakfast sausage, hash browns inside of that. And I think some bacon weaves around it. I’ll be making that on Sunday! Along with some other goodies

 

Check out the
Foodies BS Thread.

 

"Like". While not having done PID's for the medical laboratories I have done stainless carts for holding video recordings for rare medical operational procedures and holding the equipment required a long time ago. We are implementing AI at high pace now in much of the practice. Although AI is a "dirty" word to some so not sure what the latest politically correct term is. Well yes I am, but it is still AI. Having a PID learn ramp up and the smoker your using is not something I really want to get into and it cost for that benefit. And thinking it is worth it to me for paying for someone that has already programmed that learning curve. Still undecided.

Hey who you calling a fattie?!

Learn the bacon weave.. But you can start small and work your way up from there. They are all good This was my first time using Pitfaced rub. Chicken cordon bleu fatties.