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Brian Vallotton
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Almost 70 here in San Joaquin Valley Ca... with a developing moderate drought!!! GRRHate to say but it’s a comfortable 80 degrees here in So FL
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Almost 70 here in San Joaquin Valley Ca... with a developing moderate drought!!! GRRHate to say but it’s a comfortable 80 degrees here in So FL
Wow. It must be getting hot. It melted all of the snow around it.I did the update before firing up and didnt have an issue. Got up to 600 in 10 mins or so and held through the seasoning process. Its 15 degrees here today so not ideal conditions. Good luck to all! Note my genesis II chilling covered to the side asking who this new mate is ha View attachment 131
So glad to hear this. Did you do the software update before you started? Was it easy to do?Mine seems to be going smoothly. Filled the hopper with about 22lbs and just let her rip. Got up to 600 in 15 minutes.
So glad to hear this. Did you do the software update before you started? Was it easy to do?
There is an ongoing theme I am seeing on the forum of pellets forming a cavity in which the grill goes into shutdown mode and leaves you cold and not done! Anybody seeing this here? Not impressed with this development... It seems to be a flaw in design of some sort. Maybe not enough slope in the auger bin or maybe moisture in pellets? I am just guessing... AGAIN.
I appreciate your input here. I was wondering if maybe a quick spray of something like the stuff that makes an anti-stick barrier on pans and such like Pan would help here... just guessing... ( I am going to Trademark the name "just guessing") heheI saw that in a video. I'm kinda hoping it airs itself out as the dust from the pellets forms a barrier on the hopper. I never had a cavity form but I looked and moved the pellets every little bit. i could see it as an annoyance for those with more experience, but for me, it's small fries. could just be because I'm new to outdoor cooking in general.
Yes, I do believe they must have thought of this in their R and D. We must remind ourselves that the things we are sharing here in this forum are the experiences of the very first people in the world to have the Weber SmokeFire and use it in real world conditions. I am sure that Weber is paying attention to what is being said here and in other forums like this across the country. I am not an expert. But I am an excellent guesser. TM. heheThink that's what a lot of us are doing. I'm under the opposite guess though. that the pellets are being held up by any shipping oils in the hopper and the dust barrier will smooth it out. Or it'll just be a quirk on an, otherwise, great machine.
Reading through this thread makes me wonder if you need the app to operate the grill. Will it start without the app? What if a person does not have a smart phone? Do you need to keep updating the software if you don't use the app? Just curious, it shouldn't be such a technical thing in my opinion. It's just a grill.Many people I have watched and listened to say that they have issues when doing the initial start. What has been your experience with this? I had mentioned that it seems like maybe priming the heat pot could keep that from happening, but I don't know. It seems like there should be a provision for the gap from where the auger is empty to the time that it is full and moving pellets to the stove. In that gap time that is where the error happens from what I can see, and then people have to do a shutdown and restart. Which takes like 15 minutes. Just wanting to avoid having this issue when I do get mine going! Please share your thoughts.