Had our Christmas with the kids


 
LMichaels

LMichaels

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So tonight we had our Christmas with the kids and grandkids. Total madhouse. I was crazy busy. Had the Member's Mark crankin' at 400 went to shut it down, my better senses said set it down to 250 and let it cool down but my being in a hurry said "nah it'll be fine" so I put it right into shutdown. Thank heavens I peeked at it and saw the smoke billowing out of the pellet hopper. Quickly turned it back on, at P2, did a pellet dump, and hit the prime button to get the burning pellets out of the auger. Saved the day. Phew. I did a gorgeous cowboy ribeye from Sam's 3" thick on it. Ran smoke, then when I realized things were getting tight, changed plans and seared the ribeye and the lone filet off using the little Ninja. The Ninja was also pressed into service to grill up asparagus. Holy cow did that little grill shine. On everything it touched. On high grill setting it gets awfully darn hot BTW. I shot a temp off it on low at 400. In any case it seared off that giant ribeye as well as anyone could hope for. Turned out perfect asparagus as well. A wonderful ravioli with marinara first course darn we ate well!
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I have a lot more respect for my grandparents. When we all had Christmas with them, there were so many kids. My uncle alone had 6, there were 4 of us, and 2 with my other uncle. I'm slammed with the 2 little girls. Blake is 14 now so not wearing me out anymore. But holy cow those little peanuts wear me out
 
LMichaels said:
So tonight we had our Christmas with the kids and grandkids. Total madhouse. I was crazy busy. Had the Member's Mark crankin' at 400 went to shut it down, my better senses said set it down to 250 and let it cool down but my being in a hurry said "nah it'll be fine" so I put it right into shutdown. Thank heavens I peeked at it and saw the smoke billowing out of the pellet hopper. Quickly turned it back on, at P2, did a pellet dump, and hit the prime button to get the burning pellets out of the auger. Saved the day. Phew. I did a gorgeous cowboy ribeye from Sam's 3" thick on it. Ran smoke, then when I realized things were getting tight, changed plans and seared the ribeye and the lone filet off using the little Ninja. The Ninja was also pressed into service to grill up asparagus. Holy cow did that little grill shine. On everything it touched. On high grill setting it gets awfully darn hot BTW. I shot a temp off it on low at 400. In any case it seared off that giant ribeye as well as anyone could hope for. Turned out perfect asparagus as well. A wonderful ravioli with marinara first course darn we ate well!
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Looks like a good save Larry!
 
Awesome save! Fantastic cook!! Great looking Grandkids!!!
Did the kids like the Gus? I couldn't get the kids to eat Gus at that age, come to think of it, they still don't like it, LOL
 
ChuckO said:
Awesome save! Fantastic cook!! Great looking Grandkids!!!
Did the kids like the Gus? I couldn't get the kids to eat Gus at that age, come to think of it, they still don't like it, LOL
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No on the asparagus :D They do like broccoli though (if I steam it with butter). Same with green beans, they love my glazed baby carrots as well. So they do eat some veg.
 
Yeah, Jim, something told me to peek out the garage door and it was rolling smoke pretty darn well out the hopper. Luckily my SIL got one of my empty pellet buckets, held it by the pellet dump, I got the pellet dump plate out and while he held the bucket I was pushing the nearly full hopper of fuel out the chute. Once I got it down to "auger" level I fired the grill back up on a "P" setting and activated the "prime" button to force more pellets into the burn pot. Of course this artificially fed the burn pot so even though it was on a setting that would normally run a pit temp of about 170 it shot up to nearly 400, and ran there for a while. But it eventually settled back, and once it did I initiated normal shut down cycle and it went right to sleep as it should.
My haste made me jump past normal pellet grill rules. "Never shut down from high heat" I think it's especially true in really cold weather. Because to reach 400+ it really has to be pouring in the fuel. So I think in my case the burn pot was likely in a fueling up cycle when I told it to shut down, which also turns on the auger to clear pellets from the end of the auger. Which was likely REALLY bad timing in my case. Because I have shut this grill down a couple times from high heat in summer and no experienced this. Or maybe I was just "lucky?"
 
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