Reminiscing about the old days in 2007 when I started smoking things in my Bradley Original 4 rack Smoker. I was always lucky to even get close to 250ºF since back in the day (and still now) it was a 500 watt unit. But one thing the Bradley does extremely well is to produce a copious amount of smoke. Like others I started to modify my Bradley to bump the wattage to 1,000 watts and then 900 watts. Course, as many on this forum know, I had to add an Auber PID controller.
I soon incorporated a Char-Broil SRG in the mix and discovered that the SRG basket fit into the Bradley smoker. I started smoking items in the Bradley using the SRG basket and then transferring what I was smoking to the SRG to finish off the cook. This worked quite well for a period of time ...
Then in 2011 I discovered wood pellet smoker-grills and bought my first MAK 2 Star. The rest is history ...
Bottom line is that I haven't smoked yardbird parts at 250ºF for years and I wanted to see if they were as delicious as I remembered. The answer is 'Yes' - but the skin was rubbery which was to be expected at that low temperature - no big deal since we no longer eat the skin. Took a mere 2½ hours for the quarters to reach an internal temperature of 180ºF but it was worth the wait. As you can see from the photo above my MAK 2 Star produces it's own copious amount of smoke!
