8.4 pound brisket on my UDS using my LinkMeter controller

[dpeart]

I did a brisket yesterday getting ready for my cook tonight.  It was a smaller brisket that I was hoping to get done in ~1 hour per pound.

I loaded up my UDS with 3.5 chimneys of blue bag briquets, and three chunks of live oak around 6:30AM, temp 250F.  I use a simple dalmatian rub and put the brisket in around 7:30AM.  Wrapped it at 12:30PM and pulled it at 2:30 when it hit 198 and was nice and tender.  Into the oven to hold it until 5:00PM for dinner.

It was extremely tender, perfect for slicing and very juicy.  The family felt that this was the best brisket I've done yet!  Turned out really good, dropped off half of it at a friends as I didn't want it all, cause I'm doing a 14 pounder tonight for the 4th.

I was able to hold off the hordes long enough to get a quick picture, barely.  My daughter was trying to take a slice even as I took a pict.  The family doesn't get into the pictures, when it stands between them and the que.

I've attached my cook log from my DIY controller as well.  I let it go until it ran out of charcoal at 12:30AM.  So 3.5 chimneys of charcoal held 250 for about 16 hours.

Enjoy, we did :)

dave

 

[cabrego]

Looks good, can you explain your graph a bit I can't really understand it.  What line color is the food and smoker?  Graph doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me...looks cool though

 

[dpeart]

Looks good, can you explain your graph a bit I can't really understand it.  What line color is the food and smoker?  Graph doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me...looks cool though

The orange is the pit temperature.

The green is the meat temperature.

The light blue is the fan speed.

Time is the x-axis

Temperature is the right y-axis and % fan speed is the right y-axis.

You can see that at 14:20 hours, the food temp goes to match the pit temp.  This is when I removed the brisket and left the food probe in the smoker.

dave

 

[cabrego]

very cool thanks for the explanation, where can I find info on thie DIY controller?  Looks very cool!

 

[dpeart]

very cool thanks for the explanation, where can I find info on thie DIY controller?  Looks very cool!

http://tvwbb.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/5561094836