Memorial Day Adventures with Qviews
So, to test this theory that a dry brine would shorten the stall time, we coated a small 4 lb. bone-in pork butt with kosher salt for an hour which created a nice little puddle of moisture from the top half inch of the pork that would be unavailable for the stall.
After an hour we rinsed it off, patted it dry and coated it with a 8+2+2+1 rub. Internal temp. 60°
Next we wired it up with the
Masterbuilt probe and the Maverick probes since the
Masterbuilt has such wonky controller (and the new ones are back-ordered for 4 weeks)
Smoking in Portland
8 hours later…
The Temperature curve
The problem here is we never reached 180° let alone 190° so the pork did not pull apart as easily as we wanted, but it tasted great…
Masterbuilt set at 230° at 0 hours Raised to 235° after 2 hrs
Raised it again to 240° after 4 hrs because the Maverick 733 still reading 224° -233° . Clearly this needed to be set at a higher temperature than the popular 225°. We used the
Thermoworks probe at 3 hours and 8 hours and it was within a degree of the Maverick readings.
But what is interesting is that the chart shows a continuous slope. With a higher temp we should get a steeper curve.
This test is only one data point but I think this is worth more investigation if we can get the temps up on the
Masterbuilt.