Recent content by Dubs

Welcome, there is some good advice above. Take a close look at the pellets you’re using. Before I was able to get back to Lumber Jack I used a variety of pellets mostly from big box stores. Bag to bag results were quite different. Pit Boss gave my 1250 fits on many occasions, even Bear Mountain...

1250 owner here. Basically trouble free since I’ve had it. Couple of minor issues, mostly due to crappy pellets. No trouble with the paint, I use for all types of food, have had it above 600 quite a few times for reversed sear steak. so far Lumber Jack pellets have worked the best in mine.

I have the 1250, no issues when grilling or smoking. I use the grill grates, flat side. I love to doing a reversed sear steak on the smoker. Give it a lot of flavor. Even in 20* weather the 1250 cranks out the heat. Just throw the ash in the botton for added insulation. Going from 225 to 500 +...

Ok, so let’s go over a few things. Knowing that you had owned a recteq before, are you following the shut down procedures, aka cooling the grill down in steps to it levels out at 225/250? Burn back in the auger can make starting a very long process. When I had my 590 very little issues with...

Well, great news for some of us. RK has just gone back to Lumber Jack pellets. I just picked up 3 bags of Competition blend. THey also had Hickory, Cherry, and Apple. My 1250 works the best with these. $11.99/20#.

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Thanks for the replies. Not really trying to adjust the temps with the feed control. I was working on the consistency of the temps which have been bouncing more than it used to. I used reset to factory default for the min feed, it set it at 1.5. As mentioned, mine was at 1, so I have a...

Ok so while I love the 1250, I am becoming annoyed with temp control. It seemed to begin with the 2.1.2 firmware update. I had talked to recteq about it and it looks like they made an adjustment my min feed rate. Lately the 225 area bouncing a bit more. Been using Bear Mountain pellets all...

So a follow up, the probe was warranty, the person I talked to said they had a few in the back for warranty issues. Well a week later, and my friends were arriving in a day or so I called rt. They are back ordered, won’t be in until August. So I questioned him about what the first guy said, his...

Thanks, did you have to recalibrate anything?

Thanks, it is in the wire itself, about a quarter of the way to the probe itself. there was a kink in the wire there, I suspect I might have stretched it a bit.

So I am in the middle of a reverse sear steak, I notice that meat temp is way below where it should be. Played with wire it started to go up, left it alone temp went back down, so in went the other probe, all back to normal. Went to the rectec website sold out. I call next week, but are there...

I tried the Bear Mtn gourmet last weekend on ribs. More smoke flavor than the LJ, seem to burn very clean. Not much smoke rolling out though. Got a couple of bags to try out. If not I’ll try out Pitboss I guess.

I used Bear Mountain gourmet blend for the first time last weekend, as RK doesn‘t carry LJ anymore. A little pronounced more smoke taste, but it hardly produced any smoke, very clean burning. Time will tell.

This was the last steak I did, reverse sear. The temp was still going up when the steak was done. Really don’t like getting the temps that high.