u/Sad_Kitchen5389

Terrible. Just terrible. The deflector plate has a 70F difference from the cold side to the hot side (stack side), and they knew where the hot side was so why is the thermometer on the cold side? If I set 225 that means the cold side is 225 and the hot side is 290. It’s ruined briskets for me, and before I was making briskets very consistently with my Traeger tailgate 22. In this smoker, the fat cap is taking especially long to render. I’d say out of the 14 briskets I’ve made in it I’ve been happy with maybe 3 of them. Anyone else have these problems?