I’ll definitely provide feedback once I do my initial cook. It’s being delivered on Thursday, so I will probably do any prep/seasoning I need to do on Friday after work and then I’m going to do the initial cook (6 racks of ribs) on Saturday.
So I got my Grid Iron in and setup. Did the initial seasoning this morning and then ended up cooking three racks of spares for the trial run. I started to worry that there was an issue with the controller because I would set it to a temp and once it hit that would never waver from it even when I opened the lid. I was used to seeing a bit of a flux in my PG500 temps. I suspect the reason the temp didn’t flux when I opened the door was the placement of the ambient prob inside the smoker. It’s on the left side wall with the pro-Shelf wall between it and the cooking section. While I had the Grid Iron set to 250 it read 250, but my iGrill ambient probe was reading as high as 289 in the cooking section. I’ll need to get a proven accurate therm in the main chamber to compare to the built in probe so I can check to see if I need to make any adjustments.
So on the Pro shelves, they definitely will give you more cooking configuration options, but unless you are doing something like jerky it will be unlikely you can use all four shelves at once with the spacing between them. I also noticed that if you have the lid insulator like you see on mine, and try to cook on the top shelf, it’s probably going to hit the food when you close the lid. That’s the spot you see in my second picture on the inside of the lid.
The ribs turned out great and everyone happily consumed mass quantities of tasty pork goodness.
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