So the wife picked up a small bone-in 4lb lil nugget of meat. I figured I would cook it today and throw some ABT's on for lunch.
I got the UDS up to temp, tossed on the peppers and butt.
I used Anaheim peppers and some Caribe peppers filled with cream cheese, cheddar-jack, and mild Italian sausage wrapped in some bacon of course. I set it off at 225 for a few hours and pulled off the ABT's.
The butt was moving along nice and slow. The poppers were awesome!
So I initially had the butt on around 10:30am. At around 2pm it hit 145 and stayed there for 2 hours. Then it creeped up to 153 and wouldn't move. So I double checked the temp with my insta-read thermo. It showed around 165 in the middle, the edges of course were way hotter, like 190. The bone was pulled back about 1/4". So I let it run till almost 8pm and the bone still wasn't popping out, though the temp was showing at 173 on the insta-read. I think my Mavericks food probe has already fouled up after barely a month of use. Is this common? It was about 15 degrees off from the insta-read one.I double checked grate temps with my other thermos and all were within a few degrees of each other including the Mavericks grill probe.
So I didn't have any more time and so I pulled it off, now it sits wrapped in foil and a towel sitting in a cooler for a while.
It was weird that such a small cut refused to heat up. The only thing I can think of is maybe the heat diffuser caused an issue? I am baffled as to what the heck happened. Makes me less than excited to try again. I would think about 9 hours for a 4lb butt would be enough, no?
I'll post some pics and results once I pull it from the cooler later. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
I got the UDS up to temp, tossed on the peppers and butt.
I used Anaheim peppers and some Caribe peppers filled with cream cheese, cheddar-jack, and mild Italian sausage wrapped in some bacon of course. I set it off at 225 for a few hours and pulled off the ABT's.
The butt was moving along nice and slow. The poppers were awesome!
So I initially had the butt on around 10:30am. At around 2pm it hit 145 and stayed there for 2 hours. Then it creeped up to 153 and wouldn't move. So I double checked the temp with my insta-read thermo. It showed around 165 in the middle, the edges of course were way hotter, like 190. The bone was pulled back about 1/4". So I let it run till almost 8pm and the bone still wasn't popping out, though the temp was showing at 173 on the insta-read. I think my Mavericks food probe has already fouled up after barely a month of use. Is this common? It was about 15 degrees off from the insta-read one.I double checked grate temps with my other thermos and all were within a few degrees of each other including the Mavericks grill probe.
So I didn't have any more time and so I pulled it off, now it sits wrapped in foil and a towel sitting in a cooler for a while.
It was weird that such a small cut refused to heat up. The only thing I can think of is maybe the heat diffuser caused an issue? I am baffled as to what the heck happened. Makes me less than excited to try again. I would think about 9 hours for a 4lb butt would be enough, no?
I'll post some pics and results once I pull it from the cooler later. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
