Warm up times for Model 250

My 150's has 2 elements.
The Smokettes/Model 50's have 1.

Chicken Breasts are done in 35 to 55 min @ 250. Thighs about 1 hour to 1hr 15.

I'd post your question to Stuart. You're just going to make everyone jealous talking about the 200 series. I'm sure he can answer the questions about warm up times, elements, etc.

Hey Stuart, you listening?

Catergreat,

There are a lot of variables in the heat of time of a 250. They include the amount of food in the unit, the temperature of the food, the relative humidity and several others. So, it is hard to give an exact heat up time. If you want to check the unit to see if it is working properly, run it out empty. It should take right at 30 minutes to reach 200 degrees.

The problem with adding more heating elements or elements with higher wattage is that you either have to add a fan to move the air, or you will burn up the food on the bottom grill.

Hope that answers your questions, if not ask away...

I guess that is why you design and sell these things and I simply cook on them. It took about 1 hour and 20 mins for me to smoke chicken quarters to the proper temp. (which I think is completely reasonable.) I find that the breast quarters get to 160 about the time that the thighs get to 180. I took them out and placed in one of my convection ovens at 400 for about 10 mins to crisp up the skins...

As long as you don't overload the sucker, you actually get a good color on the meat. It find this true with briskets, shoulders, ribs as well.

By the way, I cooked my first ribs Sunday... baby backs, took 3.5 hours.... they would've have won Memphis in May and I didn't even have to foil them, Smokin'!

I didn't sauce these, just made a good rub and served dry.... incredible.... Can't believe I waited a year to try ribs in it... but it has been very busy with shoulders and brisket.....

I'll be going to Vegas in a week and two days to attend the CaterSource Update 2002 Convention. Me and 800 other caterers are not letting Usama stop us from having a great time, rewarding ourselves for our hard work this year and gaining education to stay ahead of our competition... I understand that John Shiflet will be there from Cookshack... hmmm... maybe I will buy THAT unit from him like I did last year.... providing Stuart instructs him to give me a real SWEET deal....

carl jones
jackson, tn