Multiple butts

tripleq · Jan 27, 2017

I got a vac tumbler So Im killing two birds with a stone. I've promised a few friends and family members I would smoke a butt for them the next time I fired up the smoker. Wouldn't you know it, four of them showed up with the goods. So I'm marinating them each with a different marinade in my new toy.

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tripleq
Jan 27, 2017

So I have a question, Im doing 4 butts for others and Ill be damned if Im doing all this work and not get any for my self so, five butts. how will doing all five at once effect the total cook time? I will monitor the IT of each independently, but will all the meat take longer to cook?

pc farmer · Jan 27, 2017

TripleQ said:
I got a vac tumbler So Im killing two birds with a stone. I've promised a few friends and family members I would smoke a butt for them the next time I fired up the smoker. Wouldn't you know it, four of them showed up with the goods. So I'm marinating them each with a different marinade in my new toy.

vac tumbler.jpg

tripleq

Jan 27, 2017

So I have a question, Im doing 4 butts for others and Ill be damned if Im doing all this work and not get any for my self so, five butts. how will doing all five at once effect the total cook time? I will monitor the IT of each independently, but will all the meat take longer to cook?

You put a whole butt in there. Must be pretty good sized. I cant get a butt in mine.

As far as cook time. Shouldn't be any different than cooking one butt

tripleq · Jan 27, 2017

c farmer said:
You put a whole butt in there. Must be pretty good sized. I cant get a butt in mine.

As far as cook time. Shouldn't be any different than cooking one butt

Yea this one came with two tubs, this is the lager one, Its about the size of a 5 gal bucket, here is a 9 lbs shoulder sitting in it, plenty of room.

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tripleq
Jan 27, 2017

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Jan 27, 2017

Im wondering what it will do to a rack O ribs

SmokinAl · Jan 28, 2017

What brand vac tumbler is that?

It looks pretty impressive!

Al

hillbillyrkstr · Jan 28, 2017

Tumbler looks impressive for sure!

5 butts in your smoker won't effect your total cooking time. It's not like you add all the weights together. Your smoker might take a bit longer to heat up with all that cold meat in it but if you'd still guesstimate your time based on the size of your individual pork butts. And your already keeping track of internal temp so you should be good.

When I smoke 4-6 butts in my mes I always pay attention to the smallest butt (although I try to keep all butts within a pound of each other so they are all done around the same time) cause that's the one that's gonna get done first. And because the smoker has hot spots sometimes if a butt is ahead of the others I'll move them around on the racks.

Hope this helps.

Scott

tripleq · Jan 28, 2017

SmokinAl said:
What brand vac tumbler is that?

It looks pretty impressive!

Al

hillbillyrkstr said:
Tumbler looks impressive for sure!

5 butts in your smoker won't effect your total cooking time. It's not like you add all the weights together. Your smoker might take a bit longer to heat up with all that cold meat in it but if you'd still guesstimate your time based on the size of your individual pork butts. And your already keeping track of internal temp so you should be good.

When I smoke 4-6 butts in my mes I always pay attention to the smallest butt (although I try to keep all butts within a pound of each other so they are all done around the same time) cause that's the one that's gonna get done first. And because the smoker has hot spots sometimes if a butt is ahead of the others I'll move them around on the racks.

Hope this helps.

Scott

Thanks Scott & Al. This is the most weight Ive cooked to date. The tumbler is a Marinade Express, I chose it because not only was the closest thing to Marine proof I could find, I could get larger pieces of meat in it. So we are in the smoke

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SmokinAl · Jan 28, 2017

Looks good so far!

Al

donegotfat · Jan 28, 2017

TripleQ said:
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tripleq

Jan 28, 2017

Where did you pick up your flue vent for your Yoder, as I know they dont come with one. I would like to pick up one for myself. Is yours a 3rd party, or made by Yoder?

tripleq · Jan 28, 2017

DoneGotFat said:
Where did you pick up your flue vent for your Yoder, as I know they dont come with one. I would like to pick up one for myself. Is yours a 3rd party, or made by Yoder?

tripleq · Jan 28, 2017

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firemanjon · Jan 28, 2017

Man that sure is looking good so far!! Love the yoder too...those are really nice

donegotfat · Jan 28, 2017

TripleQ said:

Thanks :)

tripleq · Jan 28, 2017

Wicked Baked beans + Bama slaw + pulled pork = Meat coma

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Jan 28, 2017

pc farmer · Jan 28, 2017

Great looking plate.How do you think the tumbler worked in the flavor?

tripleq · Jan 28, 2017

I did 5 shoulders, each got marinaded in a different flavor, with one plain as a control. they were ginger soy, mojo, apple juice/ apple cider vinegar and sour orange.

first all were juicier than the plain, which I wouldnt sat was dry, just not as juicy. The two we could identify by taste were the ginger/soy (the least favorite) and the sour orange (the clear winner)

All in all the tumbler worked like a champ. I drew a vacuum on both tubs before I went to bed and they held vacuum till I vented them in the morning.

Im happy with it. Im looking forward to doing up some steaks.

ps four of the shoulders were from costco, ie boneless and large, the large tub could have handled two easily, one was a bone in shoulder and you could hear it thumping around but I had no sense it was going to damage the tub or break the seal (its pretty heavy duty)

SmokinAl · Jan 29, 2017

Great job!

I love that tumbler!

Point for a perfect looking meal!

Congrats for making the carousel!

Al

jokensmoken · Jan 29, 2017

Last summer I did 3 butts and a brisket at the same time, in the same smoker and except for it taking slightly longer to get the temp regulated in the beginning the total smoke time wasn't much different from doing 10-12 pounds of meat...

Walt

tripleq · Jan 29, 2017

It really drove home the stalls being different. I would say between 10 and 30 minutes separation between each, I foiled at 165 as they reached it. when I returned each to the fire I rotated the first to come off to the place that had the coldest IT. I did get about 2 hours longer from start to finish, Im thinking that probably had a lot to do with all the time I had the pit open while foiling and pulling.

All and all it was a good experience, knowing what I can do. But what really stuck with me was how tired I was at the end of the day. Hats off to you folks who do this for a living.

One last question, Those wicked baked beans were the Bomb, can you freeze baked beans? I would make a bath tub of the stuff if I could freeze it.

b-one · Jan 29, 2017

Tasty looking plate!:drool

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