QueNivorous
Knows what a fatty is.
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Anyone out there have experience using both a Stoker and a Guru (preferably the CyberQ) If so can you tell me which you prefer and why.
Guess I should clarify. (And stop posting from my phone before coffee..) The stoker didn't "not work" - a cheap miniature acer wireless adapter I bought for it didn't work. (One of those printer/gamer to wifi adapters, for putting wifi on wired-only equipment.)
The stoker worked great on my hard-to-manage cheap offset (worked until the offset burned up during our practices) and it works great on my WSM, on my cheap box cool-smoker, etc. It just doesn't handle the UDS, and I heard from an all-UDS team at Tracy's Landing this weekend that the guru does.
I also haven't tried it with the 5cfm fan yet - no spare fan, and leading up to comp I couldn't give the WSM one up during a cook. I'll know for sure next time we light them up, hopefully this coming weekend.
When I looked to buy a drafter, the guru couldn't manage 4 cookers at once. (Oh, and if its pc only, that might do it - we only have macs and linux.) If the stoker is plugged into a network it has a built-in webpage that works fine on everything from PCs to phones. No need for a remote if you have a working network hookup. (It also does twitter and such, but..) And of course the front panel controls.
There are at least 3 mac apps for trending the stoker, plus a hacked together web app someone made and a couple of excellent pc apps. (The mac apps are catching up, but not there yet - more because stokerlog is awesome than because they are terrible.)
The miniature guru remotes a few teams had looked handy, but saving a few steps across the camp isn't as important (to me at least) as the overall trend of the fire, and for that you need the apps. (If I decide to get a guru, it'll be for the ability to manage a UDS - the remotes would just be icing. More likely, I'll just build one for $50 out of a cheap industrial PID controller and a fan..)
When researching for a unit, I sent stoker and guru an email and the guru folks were the only ones that bothered to respond.