The honeymoon is definitely over. I was busy running around yesterday so didn’t add all the commentary I should have, but wanted to share those pics. The reason I shared was to show the grease build up, you can see the channels feeding the drawer were completely filled with a grease and ash mixture, keeping much from getting to the drawer and how pronounced they were after cleaning. Seeing some You Tube videos this morning of people with grease fires.
Started my brisket at 9:00 PM last night, set to 200, my Fireboard alarm kept going off as it hit 174 a few times. I started ignoring it knowing I was going to bump the temp to 225 and fill the hopper before going to sleep. I was up too late and went to fill the hopper at 12:30 or 1:00 and when I started pushing the pellets over to the auger side, they collapsed, looked at the controller and grill was 75 degrees, it had sucked a hole underneath and gone out. Tried to restart grill and it said an improper shutdown had taken place and went into shutdown mode. Had to let it run it’s course before I could fire it back up. Wish I had gotten a pic, but didn’t realize there was a problem under the pellets fell.
This morning at 8:30, went to check on it again and opened the hopper to see the pic below, I was probably 10 mins from going out again. This time visible though. Last pic is what? Where did this come from?