Alton Brown for OpenSky: The Pitmaster IQ

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[anthonystevenson]

I love mine, I just started using it. I know this is several years later but thist thing is next level.

[advanced-electronic]

Wonderful idea, use a bottom vented smoky joe and have all the hot embers fall through and melt a hole in your hose, then give burning rubber flavor to your meats.. Try it on a barrel smoker with a side vented or door vented fire box. I'm betting it'd actually work without issues. I do have problems with Pitmaster IQ 120. It isn't waterproof and rain destroyed mine. Replaced it and other problems happened with the electronics constantly causing me probe errors. replaced the probes with their brand probes and kept having the problems. I even resoldered the connections where the probes connected to the pc board and it still flashed the errors and ruined my bbq. I bought a $35 controller that works better and has battery power. I modified one of those solar powered battery packs to charge laptoips to work with the controller. It actually allows a/c charging and operate at the same time so I could smoke meats for much longer than normal. If I regulate the pit, and load it properly, I could smolder wood and slowly burn charcoal, getting through without burning up the fuels for 14 to 16 hours straight, all depending on the charcoal used. Kingsford Competition Briquettes work and taste best. I will buy other brands, and thank you Alton Brown for the fine lesson on how to burn up my air hose!

[WilliamRay]

question...what keeps the ashes from dropping down into the vent area on a kettle grill? Do you need to put some foil under the coals I presume?

[spookytooth]

Ha! You're great man! Very informative AND entertaining!

[seasoningstaste]

From personal experience, the IQ is designed for a kamado or Smokey mountain. Not the weber kettle.

Kettles are great but I can maintain 235-260 on my own.

I’m attaching this to my kamado. Because as much as I love my weber, I can’t start the grill at 9pm and go to bed without running out of charcoal.

Sometime after quarantine ends, I’m going to do a 10+ lb pork shoulder on my vision.

[MattNTiffany]

He did use this solution on Good Eats - SP06 - Right on Q.

[Snowmirage]

Looks like old good eats HQ has become a bit of a lonely place

[silvermediastudio]

It's a fan to control the temperature of your charcoal grill for smoking.

I just presented the entire spot in 2.5 seconds, as opposed to 2 minutes.. Do I get a job?