So far my test run is going well.
Just using Kingsford Professional in my Slow n Sear, just to see how it runs and to get used to it before an actual cook.
I decided to only light about 5 coals before filling the rest of it just to see how long it would take to reach my 250 target.
It started at 65 degrees, and the fan ran full blast until about 175. Took just under 15 minutes.
Fan shut off at 175 and it kept going up to about 300, and then cooled down to 250 after about 12 minutes.
It held almost perfectly steady at 250 except for a couple times where it jumped up to the mid 260s. I figured this was fresh coal lighting.
After about 3 hours I may have gone through less than 1/3 of the SnS.
I raised it to 275, and after an initial temp drop of about 25 degrees for about 2 minutes, it hit about 315 in under 4 minutes. About 12 minutes later it dropped down to 275 and is holding rock steady. Fan runtime, which I wish we could track, has been minimal. Quick burst here and there for about a minute.
I've been using my inkbird to back it up, and aside from them being a couple degrees off from each other, the temps have been tracking near identical.
So far I am really happy with this, and I have a brisket flat in my freezer that has been waiting near two months for this lol.
My only gripe so far, if you can call it that, would be a total lack of audible alarms for temps being reached of if they drop too far below the setpoint.
Visual alarms on the app are nice, but not very helpful unless I am watching my app the whole time.
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