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8lb. butt has been in my smoker for 9 hrs. at 225 to 230 got to 186 at 8 hrs. and started to go backwards. Now at 9 hrs. is 169. I've done four butts before first time I've had one go backwards.
Mine went backwards yesterday while cooking for competition and I have never seen them do that before. It went from about 170 the last time I checked to about 150 and I about crapped. It came back up but boy was I nervous.
Too bad the beer count in the cooler doesn't go backwards during a stall. That is aheck of a letoff if you ask me. Maybe the probe was right in a pile of fat that rendered down or something like that. I dunno
i've only done 1 butt, but it went backwards shortly after it stalled at 169 degrees.
it didn't freak me out because i had read lots of threads that warned of the stall, and a few that mentioned the loss in internal temperature.
old threads are a great resource here at SMF. if you root around you can find the thread where someone (sorry i can't recall the member's name) explains the physics behind the stall. it's very reassuring to know what problems might crop up and have strategies ready to addresss them.
I have had that happen to me also and I just closed my eyes and took another swig of beer and when I opened my eyes again it was all fixed I think.......