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Weekend butt was not a success, ideas?
sometimes we make things more difficult than they need be. There is nothing all that special about smoking. 2 things are happening, smoke is adding flavor to the meat and heat is cooking the meat. I used to try to be a purist with the "low and slow" and I got tired of it taking 18 hours to... -
I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE......
Not bashing, just voicing some disappointment in a drunken stupor! My therms are dead on accurate. I won't hesitate to run my smoker hotter next time I do butts. I usually run em around 225. I ended up finishing these in the oven. Luckily I took 1 of the 4 off and we chopped it up as... -
I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE......
hugely disappointed in the advice from this site. it is now 10 of midnight on the super bowl and i have 2 butts STILL IN THE OVEN. I put them on the smoker at 7am because I was advised that since they were smaller I wouldn't need to go overnight with them. The moral of the story is sometimes... -
1st Boston Butt for Super Bowl w/ pics (Running Commentary)
I would tell you to foil it up and then wrap it in a towel and put it in a cooler until right before you are ready to serve it. IT will stay hot until game time or whenever your guests are arriving and then you can pull it then. -
Super Bowl Butt question
as somebody else mentioned, it's amazing how hot it will stay if you have it wrapped up in foil and then wrapped in towels and sitting in a cooler. Another trick from my homebrewing days is to boil some water and dump that into the cooler and swish it around to sort of preheat the cooler and... -
I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE......
Those butts in the past were probably done at closer to 225 but they were on a cheapo smoker that definately had some temp fluctuations though if anything it would be a spike in temps. I'm definately leaning towards going more the "hot and fast" kind of thing because it's pulled pork, it's... -
I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE......
stewyc, great questions but I kinda wish you would have started your own thread since this is such a new thread and i'm trying to decide what I need to do in the next couple of hours and dont want confusino on who the answers are being given too! -
I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE......
But sadly my supermarket didn't have any big butts. they had one 3 lb but and a bunch of "half picnics" in the 3.5 lb range. So i bought the 1 butt and 3 of the picnics. My question to you great folks is on cooking time. In the past, I've done all of my pulled porks using Whole picnics in... -
Pork Butt for the super bowl! !!!!
minion method is a way of lighting the coals. you dump your briquetts in a basket then scoop out the middle and then light about a 1/4 chimney of charcoal and drop it in. IT gets you a nice slow, and even burn so that you don't have to tend your fire all the time. -
Pork Butt for the super bowl! !!!!
About to fire up some pulled pork myself. It seems like I've yet to have pulled pork NOT take close to 18 hours so I guess I have to go overnight. The problem I have when this happens is that the minion method only seems to get me 6-8 solid hours of cook time and I need double that. I'm... -
SFB Minion Method - Am I doing something wrong?
BUMP! I'm not loving the minion method with this smoker. I've sealed up everything, done the smokestack mod down to grate level and I have 3 tuning plates, one on an angle covering the firebox opening, the other 2 right up against and against each other. I do need to get 2-3 more plates to...- cpfitness
- Post #14
- Forum: Charcoal Smokers
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Grate Thermostat issue
BUMP! So i've spent most of the year not using these thermos because I never got them right. I just used my cheap digital thermos and stuck the probe through potatoes. now 2 of those digital thermos have broken and I'd really rather use those digital thermos in the meat not in the damn...- cpfitness
- Post #10
- Forum: General Discussion
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Brinkmann Trailmaster Limited Edition
When I use minion method with this smoker I don't add a full chimney of lit coals to the basket, I add maybe at best a half of a chimney. I need to get a couple more pieces of sheet metal, I only have 3, one laying on an angle next to the firebox and the other 2 right up against those. I am...- cpfitness
- Post #678
- Forum: Charcoal Smokers
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Brinkmann Trailmaster Limited Edition
Apply it then bolt it together then give it 24 hours- cpfitness
- Post #538
- Forum: Charcoal Smokers
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Neighbor got a Brinkman Trailbalzer for Xmas...not going so well..advice?
I am at 6 hours as I type this but using Kingsford. I find lump burns too fast in the basket Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk- cpfitness
- Post #38
- Forum: Charcoal Smokers
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Grate Thermostat issue
its not an adjustment issue as I tested these in boiling water so I know that they read correctly. As for condensation in them, I dropped it in the boiling water while testing it so yeah, there is probably a crappy seal in it. it's $8 not worried about it not lasting forever. good call on the...- cpfitness
- Post #9
- Forum: General Discussion
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Grate Thermostat issue
it is right next to the diap probe- cpfitness
- Post #8
- Forum: General Discussion
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Grate Thermostat issue
. 234 vs 205 Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk- cpfitness
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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Grate Thermostat issue
. Another pic. 206 vs 160. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk- cpfitness
- Post #4
- Forum: General Discussion
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Grate Thermostat issue
. Here is a pic. Def not slow reading. They have been like this all day Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk- cpfitness
- Post #3
- Forum: General Discussion
