Amerique not reaching set cooking temp....

Wow! Sounds like you are a generous guy!

You should call CookShack customer service.

Dave, Congrats on the new unit. I believe I would call Cookshack and talk to Tony. They will help you out for sure.

Mike

See if your meat is or was touching the temp probe in the back of your smoker. Someone else had that problem.

It is NOT the outdoor ambient temp that is affecting your smoker temp. I have smoked with an outdoor temp of +5 deg with no affect on the cook time or temp.

So one possibility suggested above is that meat is touching the sensor (but that would cause a higher oven temp). You can call Cust Service as suggested.

My best guess is that if you have really loaded up with a lot of meat that the meat itself is acting like a heat sink and/or where ever you have put your temp probe to read the oven temp it is touching something else or there is too much meat inside and is restricting the flow of heated air.

Most of us learn with experience to not worry too much about the temp inside the smoker once you have established that oven is producing heat.

I recently smoked a larger batch of meats and noted my Amerique stalled out at 170. I did not open the door and patiently waited. After an hour or more the temperature moved right on up to my set temp of 230. I just added a half hour to my projected finish time and meat was great.

Were you patient enough?

We had a death in the family and I have not been able to investigate further. I'm smoking a turkey tomorrow and that will give me a chance to check how it's doing with a light load,not touching the back wall.

Mr. Murphy and his brother showed up. Temp probe reads more than 30 degrees high and the smoker temp won't get within about 30 degrees of set temp. Will need to call cookshack this week. My taylor remote thermometer also just crapped out; what a day....

Dave, I know that Tony can help you. Please let us know what happens.

Spoke to Stuart yesterday; new logic board is on the way.... Hopefully install won't be too much of a challenge.

Dave

BTW, I have received absolutely rave reviews for the butts. Rubbed them in cookshack rib rub, 4 oz cherry 2 oz hickory and folks proclaimed them the best Q that they have ever eaten.

Installing the new board is pretty simple its a matter of about 6-8 screws on the back of the Amerique and 6 nuts on the back of the board. If you have any trouble don't hesitate to give Customer Service a call 800.423.0698