Boneless strip first time

[newsmokerky]

Here we go. Rubbed pretty good with kosher salt, CBP, and garlic salt. Temp set at 225. Three decent size hickory chunks.

 

[newsmokerky]

Thin pale smoke.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Ok waiting what times dinner?

Warren

 

[newsmokerky]

Ok waiting what times dinner?

Warren

Dunno. I'm guessing 5:30-6:00. I had a little setback. Smoke got very heavy, and dark. Opened the door and removed the box. Two of the chunks had bark. I guess I'll remove the bark from my other chunks. Put two new chunks in that have no bark. Smoke looks much better.

 

[newsmokerky]

These hickory chunks I'm using are from a bag of Kingsford hickory split pieces I bought at Home Depot. going forward, I'll knock the bark off the chunks I've cut up before I use them.

 

[SonnyE]

Are you sure they weren't dog wood?
(Because they barked...)


Ducks... Runs....

Watching...

 

[newsmokerky]

LOL. Could be I reckon.

 

[newsmokerky]

Question. I've got the new therm pro in this strip. Both probes in it, on opposite sides, in the thickest section. They are reading about 6 degrees different. I want to pull at 135, and let it rest for about 30 minutes prior to slicing. Should I pull when the higher one hits 135, lower one, or split the difference?

 

[HalfSmoked]

This could be from the temperature difference in the different spots in your smoker rotate the meat and see what happens.

Warren

 

[SonnyE]

Swap the probes and see if they read the same, or different.
Just because you have two probes does not mean they are accurately tuned to read exactly the same.

I have a ThermPro TP-08, and an Inkbird IBT-XPS. I think I am extremely fortunate they read within 1 degree of each other. Point being, they do read differently.

So I would try the easyest thing and swap holes with them for a test.

 

[newsmokerky]

OK. When it gets in the mid 120's, I'll open it and swap them. 108 and 101 right now.

 

[SonnyE]

Reason I suggest this is when I did 4 slabs of bacon, I used 3 IBT probes in 3 of them, and the TP-08 in the one.
They all started at X and stayed within 1 degree all the way through 6 hours of smoking, just inching up to 90 degrees.
(The TP-08 was at 91)
Even when I've played with them together since, 1 degree spread.

Yours looks like a 6-7 degree difference, sometimes one ticks up, then the other follows. If you want to be as proportionate as possible, I'd split the difference. But one may be truer than the other.
Many use a "boiling water" test. Just remember it is subjective to elevation as well.
But I don't put a great deal of faith in retail level thermometers. They are not like Industrial thermal controls.
Besides, I'm going to eat it if it is overdone or underdone anyway. Until I find that "Ahh" point.

Maybe I've been married too much, but I don't think I could tell the difference between 132-135-138. Not enough to send something back to the kitchen anyway.

One of those two probes you are going to like and grow to trust. The other can be your pit temperature probe.

 

[newsmokerky]

They had crept closer together. 125 and 121. I swapped them. I put the 121 in the exact same hole as the 125, and it jumped to 125. I put the 125 in the 121 hole, but kind of different angle. 5 minutes in they are both at 126. Guess they are pretty close. I'll be pulling them at 135. Shouldn't be too much longer.

 

[newsmokerky]

When I pull it, I'll stick my manual therm(non digital) in both spots to see how it compares. BTW, the probe that I sunk at a different angle went in like it was going in hot butter. Oh yeah.

 

[newsmokerky]

Both at 134 now. I'm going to pull it shortly.

 

[newsmokerky]

Well, both therms showed 136. I stuck my manual therm in the dead center, and it showed 125ish. I stuck one of the digital in next to it, and it showed 128. Put both therm probes in the center, and closed it back up. The saga continues. lol.

 

[newsmokerky]

136 pulled. Foiled in oven resting.

 

[SonnyE]

136 pulled. Foiled in oven testing.

Oh! That looks Gorgeous!

There are so many variables! Sometimes a fat strip or pocket, or just a little difference in the meat.
I'm tickled pink the probes woke up and behaved. Gives you confidence in them.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy seeing it.
Well Done!

 

[newsmokerky]

Smells heavenly. Mouth watering. Waiting for wife to get home to slice.

 

[newsmokerky]

Wow.