Santa arrived early with a FE/CS

I am anxiously waiting for a delivery time and price!! Give us lots of feed back and pictures of the cooking process...OK?

well with all your time and effort you put into this forum its well deserved and awful nice of cookshack also
happy somking okie please let us know how it smokes. jeff

Okie, I might would want a used Genuswine if I knew what it is!

Prior to buying my smokette in April of 2002 I looked long and hard at Traeger units. Extremely happy with the cookshack, now we have best of both worlds combined. Let us know all the details Smokin.

Yeah, CS has been great to me, they're a lot of really good friends there. Not bad since I started out with a CS that my wife purchased for me and it's turned into all this fun.

GLH: Check out this link for the Genuswine photos:

Genuswine photos

All, like all of you I was curious about the FE/CS. I've got some photos and I'll post my experience tonight when I have time to load the photos.

Smokin'

Smokin',ya need to be thinkin about Lakeland at the end of Jan.

I told Stuart that Eddy,drbbq,Burning Desires,Smoke n' Suds,Ocala Bill,Nick Nicholson, and who knows how many pellet heads will be there.

Be the usual crowd o' Texans to convoy with,'cept they don't believe in pellets.

Thanks Tom, we have a NBBQA Board meeting around then, if I can figure out how to get there, I certainly will. Having to learn how to used this new fangled smoker thing...

The new arrival:

64" tall:



Electronic control:

Smoke/180/250/275/300/325/350/375/400/450
Digital Temp readout



Burns about 1lb of pellets per hour:


Four shelves 17" deep x 23" wide
Also can substitute rib racks


Below the shelves is a drip pan that goes to a drain hole and goes to the removable pan under the bottom of the smoker.

There is a V shaped cover over the burn box

The black item is the burn box that contains the auger from the pellet bin.

Put a pair of briskets on at 250 at 10pm and at 6am checked it and the unit was burning perfectly at 250.

I love Ocala Bill's comment the night he won his first GC.

"like a watchin' a waffle iron,red light/green light and pour another Gentleman Jack -wait 'til the Grand Champion comes home".

'course we had had a few Jack's when these great quotes were uttered.


Like Bill says,it is cooled/ cleaned/ and back in the trailer while everyone else is recovering from turnins.

Eddy has the lock on his cooker door and goes back to the hotel.

Now that's confidence in your cooker.

Let's just not tell them Texans.

I'd hate to see Trigg get much better.

Hmmmmm. That's a big unit, no?

About one thousand dollars? Dang!



(Hey, Tom, did you see Q-Cracker's bio on the "intro yo' self thread? He's right across the water from you on Merrit Island [When I went to FSU, I knew a girl from that island! 6 feet tall]. "Q" is A shy rocket scientist.")

That is nice, real nice, Traeger flavor with cookshack tempature control and insulation. It does'nt get much better then this boys.

Hey smokin,
I put stoves in (fireplace inserts) and I have in stalled a few pellet stoves and they do put out a lot of fly ash and by looking at the bottom of the cooker it looks like fly ash to me just would like to know if it gets on the food as well. Thanks Jeff

Is that the smaller model or the larger one? I think John S. told me the smaller one holds about 100lbs and the larger holds about 300. Also in the firebox is there a heating element or is it all out fire? Are the controls programable? Its legs look long, is it top heavy?

Thanks

Quick answers. Go ahead an ask, I'll make sure CS looks at them.

This is the smaller model. I haven't seen the marketing material, so I'm not sure in lbs. how much they say it will do.

Yes there was ash in the bottom, but that was from an extended burn at 400+ early on. I'd say it burned at that amount for 10 hours then overnight for 12+ and that's the total amount of ash. The amount of ash I'm sure is related to the temp you burn at, but you'll have to ask the experts. No problem with ash on the food and the temps I used

There is an igniter that starts the fuel the first 3 min. After then, it's self burning.

This unit is heavy and has been in use and I know it's very stable on those legs. No problem opening the door (although they do intend to add a handle)

Don't know what you mean by programmable, all you get are those dial settings as that's how the unit is made. You can't change them that I'm aware of.

The fly ash has never been even mentioned in those I have been around.

I guess it also depends on whose pellets you are burning.

They seem to burn clean with high volume cooking,also.

There are so many heavy user cooks using them,that someone would have said something.

The legs have never been a problem in the field,although you could have them shortened for a specific need,i.e. trailer height,etc.

thansk for the answers guys iam just tossing stuff out there to see what this work of art is all about. jeff