MACS can Q with any damm smoker...he pulls his pork with the best of them, and it's heaven when he squirts some sauce on it...

now I feel dirty....does anyone else feel dirty?8-[

No.. a little sweaty but no dirt... 😟

I'm blushing...

It arrived today. I assembled it, and ran it at 375 for an hour to 'cure' it. I think I'll give it a test run tomorrow night.

Looks like it's super easy to clean, and will hold a very large brisket or a few small ones... or about 8-10 pork shoulders.

Lots of room.

10 butts??? dammm that's a lotta pulled pork ... 60-80 lbs of meat...I've got capacity for 6 butts in my smoker, and did it once for a work - event...fed about 100 peeps...

With that kind room you can add a couple of iron skillets and do some sides (beans, mac and cheese or even a pineapple upside down cake) along with the meat.

The space is deceiving, practically it's more like 4-5 shoulders for that size (about 30 lbs raw weight). Best results will be 3 in a row down the center lengthwise. Ideally, you want to keep the meat over the grease tray, not only for the grease, but to prevent burning as most of your heat is coming up from a strip shaped area at both the front and back of the grate. Meat that is hanging over that area will be getting hit with 450F combustion gasses. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is a convection oven, it cooks by circulating hot air (or combustion gasses in this case). If you pack the stuff in too tightly, it won't be able to heat them evenly. Lastly, the single fire pot can't make enough heat for more than probably about 40-45 lbs at most. I wouldn't pack that much in there though.

There are some really neat tricks you can do with the large grate though, after you've used it a few times and gotten used to it, I'll fill you in.

I just grabbed 4 bone-in pork shoulders. 32.5 pounds combined. I'll give it a go tonight.

Cool. Looking forward to hear the results

Yeah, I see what you mean. I got 4 shoulders on there, down the middle, and there's no more room.

I lined them up largest to smallest.

So for the larger butts, you'll have to figure out where the hot spots are on your grill. On mine, it's in the center. Yours might have different areas due to air flow between the size and the differences in exhaust venting (center stack, offset stack, louvers, etc). You can do this with an infrared "laser" thermometer or just watching what areas create more bark. If you have access to a full spectrum IR radio-graphic camera, then it makes it super easy, but I know that this isn't something that most people will have access to.

If you are foil wrapping for the finish, then it doesn't matter that much. The high temp braising takes care of most of it.

What temp setting are you cooking them at?

225 and my exhaust port is to the right, the heat pot is to the left, maybe 1/3 of the way away from the left side.

Well... that didn't work out so well. Good thing I monitored it. Ran out of fuel at about the 12 hour mark (20 lbs of pellets), so I guess 32 lbs is either too much or needs to be done at a higher temp (and I need more fuel on hand).

Shoulders were 168-172, so I foiled them and finished in the oven.

Yes, you needed more fuel for that kind of a cook. I didn't think to ask you if you had at least 40lbs on hand. Also, there are some differences in efficiency with the different brands of pellets. When I was burning traeger and camp chef pellets, I was burning about 30% more than lumberjack or cookinpellets to get the same doneness results.

I never run out of propane.

I used Traeger mesquite pellets from Home Depot. Only bought 20 lbs because I'm being added to the group buy for Lumberjack pellets. A few of the guys at the facility I am returning to have Traegers and they do big group buys that are $16 for a 40# bag, so they tell me. Has to be the whole ton, no?

I'll take ten 40# bags for $160 all damn day.

$160 for a 40 lbs bag?

$160 for TEN 40# bags.

LumberJack is the brand I use too. Great stuff. Love the maple hickory cherry (MHC) competition blend. On the recommendation of the owner, Seth, my next order I'm going to also get the pecan oak blend. That pricing sounds about right for a 1 ton or 2200 lb order. It's $15 +/- per bag when I place a ton or 2200lb order with commercial delivery only (delivery location has a forklift)