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I wanted to get this posted last night but the need for sleep before waking up at 4:30am today came first.
Here's some of the pictures from thoughout the cook.
This is sometime before the weather turned nasty. Just finished spraying with some apple juice and bourbon
After about 10 hours...
Everything seems to be going good. I've put a picture below of the butts just off the smoker. They are currently foiled and in the oven. Thanks guys for the help. I'll post some finished pictures later on.
The kicker is I'm under a gazebo.......but with no roof. I haven't put it on yet for the summer. I did however manage to tarp off the area above the smoker and I put a tarp up between 2 of the gazebo uprights to block some wind. Things seems to be looking better now.
I'll see how things...
I started 4 butts nice and early this morning and all was going well. Temperatures were cool and hover around 38F. Now the temps have dropped to about 33F and it's raining pretty hard and the wind has picked up. The smoker temp is having trouble maintaining and is slowly dropping but still...
I was planning on doing the foil then tossing them in a cooler for a bit once they're done. I do have a thermopen style that is accurate. I guess I'll just pick one to probe with the monitor and then periodically probe the others.
Thanks
I have 4 butts I'm about to rub and get ready to put on tomorrow morning. 3 of them around just under 8.5lbs and the other is just over 9.5lbs. I'm using a Napoleon Apollo so I have the 2 levels. Should I keep the bigger one on the bottom and put the temp probe for monitoring in one of the...
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