fec or stump

I bought two FE100s last July or August, and I checked out about every smoker made before I bought. What sold me was ease of operation and cleanup. Now that I have them, it's the quality of the product that comes out.

Right after I got them I was getting big temp swings which concerned me, but after three or four smokes that went away, and now it's just like setting an oven. The only other problem I've had was the high temp limit switch tripped on one of them, and Tony at Cookshack had to tell me where to find the reset.

I've made a lot of bad choices, but the FEs weren't one of them. I'd do it all over again, and someday I hope to be able to afford one of the big boys.

I learned to cook on a Weber Smokey Mountain and now have two FECs; one pre-ramp and one IQ4 controller ramp model. What can I say but I love these smokers. The quality of the product, the ease of cleanup, and the portability is great. Yes, I have had a few mechanical problems with them but took care of them in no time at all. Anything mechanical will have a mishap every so often. The question is how easy is it to repair and get back running again. All I can say is Cookshack has excellent customer service!

First of all stainless is about 10X the cost of carbon steel. The whole cabinet is 100% Stainless. You can get stainless racks but we found the nicle plated are alot easier to clean. Stainless is a pourse metal and when it heats up, the pours open and the meat will stick to Stainless to where you have to scrape it loose. Oil doesn't help this much at all. You can open and close the door as much as you want and it'll get back to cooking temp faster then anything on the market. It maybe the cheapest cooker on the market to operate today. It will use about 1/2 # of pellets an hour at 250 degrees. Pellets make 1% ash content. No other fuel will do that. We maybe mechanical but we don't have to worry about the charcoal bridging in the feed tube neither. Your ready to cook in less then 10 minutes. NSF listing will make it leagal if you want to get health dept certified in a food service operation. Your also dealing with a company thats been in business since 1963. Just a few things to think about.

See my reply above in the Cookshack Owners Forum.

Our FEC s have been on the circuit all over the southeast for three years and I guess we should carry some spare items,but don't.

I don't know what often means, for breakdowns,but I have a non ramp and a new IQ and have yet to have a second's problem.

I think Rodney/Pellet Envy has posted somewhere on here about how many tons of pellets,how many comps,etc, over the years and he did replace a shear pin-which any hardware store carries.

If you did,there is a Cookshack toll free service,instant help.

Yes,FEC s do burn more efficiently than many cookers,so you don't have to worry about oversmoking,or a creosote taste.

We run ours on a $50 battery and a $30 invertor for the whole contest.

I've known Stump,the developer,for years and they build a popular gravity feed cooker.

I don't know much more ,since they sold the company.


Tom-Fl

hog wild
bbq

" break downs alot" NOT.

MABY A HICKUP

I've only had one on the FEC and that was only a couple screws that hold the pellet augor on.