I always start it up the same way. Open the lid, put it on smoke, let it run until the the smoke clears and the fire is burning hot, then close the lid and set it to temp. I let it stabilize on temp for a half hour why preparing and wrapping the pork. Then I put the pork on and closed the door and let it run for a couple of hours until this happened. I walked past the thing multiple times during the cook time ant the pit temp was good ant the meat was climbing the entire time.
Then after 2 hours I saw the the billowing smoke. I know these things can blow like it did after seeing all the videos, but was hoping that this was a momentary thing and let it go for a minute or so before deciding to shut it down. I started filming to document what happened and wound up getting the explosion.
I didn’t do anything different from the way I’ve done this before, so I’m thinking that the fire somehow went out in the middle of the cook and the pit boss was trying to recover. I’m thinking that they could easily add some logic to the controller program to automatically shut off if the temp still drops off after adding pellets for a while.
I opened it up this morning and didn’t see what I expected. I expected to see a bunch of pellets all over the place and all there was were pellets in the cup and a small amount that looks like it blew out during the explosion. Here is a photo link. The photo shows up huge when posting here so I am just giving a link. Chris
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