or maybe the drain spout on my FE100. Waiting for it to cool down, but it appears I had a grease fire occur while I was in the back yard setting up for our block party. Should be able to salvage most of the meat, but cannot figure out why it even happened. Outside of unit is blackened in the area of the downspout, so my guess is there is where it happened.
What caused it to overheat may be a thermostat problem as it was reading 235 and billowing black smoke. When I put a polder in there to check after romoving meat and shutting down unit it read 395, so I am guessing it was nearer to 500 or more.
This was a fresh cook, two briskets, and 10 slabs of ribs. Unit was spotlessly clean when I started, there is about 1/2 inch of grease in the pan right now, so maybe something clogged it and it caught fire. Will report more when I learned more.
Hey Dan, guess I can use a new seal-as mine are toast. You still got extras?
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