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On my last cook, I put on two pork butts before going to bed. When I got up the next morning, the smoker (an Amerique) was set to OFF. I immediately pusted the start button to check if the smoker had already finished the cook. The temperature probe read 147° and the cooker was at 162°. I check for me and it was clearly not cooked. I thought it was safe to restart, so I continued the cook but the pork butts turned out very dry. There was evidence of a momentary power outage in the kitchen. Clocks had to be reset, etc.

Is there any way to take care of this particular problem? Has anyone ever had similar problems? Is there any easy solution?

Thanks!
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There are some old posts about this from Stuart, but it's basically by design.

Unless you run it on battery backup, uninterruptable power, it would happen.

I'm not sure "dry" was caused by the cook but what you don't know is at what temp did it turn off. So it was still food safe, above 140 and you cooked it.

Cover it with a bunch of sauce (good when PB gets too dry) and eat away.
I have a 1500 watt APC UPS that was given to me by a customer and it's not quit enough to run the AmeriQue. I am looking for a deal on a 2500 to 3000 watt one to use just in case this happens.

Actually just retested the 1500 watt APC and it will work. I had 2 servers plugged in when I tested it before, thought they were off and they had powered back up.

So, I do have a UPS I can use so I don't get messed up from a short power outage. YEAH!!
I have 3 pork butts I am putting on tomorrow for a work lunch-in on Monday.
We rarely have more than a few second outage.
Now I'm cooking with gas smoke Big Grin
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