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I suppose I should finally close this smoke out. Shortly after my last post, and not knowing how much fuel I had remaining, I decided to pull the butts and finish them in the oven. Imagine my surprise when the smaller butt started coming apart when I took it out! The IT was only showing at about...
The two butts were stalled for about three hours. A three hour stall? That had me humming the Gilligan's Island theme song. You're trying to recall the words, aren't you? Finally, they got moving again but it's been almost 14 hours now.
Good thing I"m not on a deadline.
Four hours into the smoke. So far, so good. Spritzing with apple juice. I haven't checked the IT yet, but chamber temp has been holding in the 225-250 range.
My adventure into smoking meat continues. For the last day of 2016 I'm taking on my first pork butt, well butts actually since I found two wrapped inside the Costco plastic. Total starting weight is 13.88 lbs, and they look about evenly sized. Kicking things off last night at 2200, I hit 'em...