Mike Parrish
TVWBB Member
I got my pitminder on Friday and decided to do two butts and some fatties for saturday. Used MM and put on about 15 bricks then set unit for 240 deg. with probe thru block of wood on top rack. The unit eventually stopped running the fan around 170 deg. per my Tel Tru in dome. I finally had to open the other bottom vents to get temp up to 240 deg. then the unit would cycle the fan and maintained that temp. Should I have ran the temp up to 240 manually then started the pitminder or should the unit have brought the cooker up to temp then maintain? Can I verify probe accuracy on the pitminder? My top vent was 100% open the whole cook. I guess I'm asking for a short course on a typical pitminder cook, perhaps I am missing something obvious. Foil tape used on two remaining holes on bottom vent, 40 deg. outside temp.