I fired up the new Masterbuilt this past week and challenged it to a dual smoke of a 10 pound brisket and an 8 pound Boston Butt.
I mixed up my own rub for the butt (turbinado sugar Kosher salt, fresh ground pepper, chili powder, cayene pepper, paprika, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder and dry mustard)
For the beef, salt and pepper only!
I got the smoker up to 225 and added some hickory chips. It was 11pm on Thursday night when I started. By 1:30 I was already seeing some good color on the butt.
I started spraying both with cranberry-raspberry juice after they reached an internal of 140 degrees and kept on going to 165. At that point, I pulled them and wrapped them both and let them go without smoke until they hit 195 and then I wrapped them up in towels and placed them in my cooler. That was about 9 am Friday morning.
At 6 PM when our church group arrived (only 5 people plus our 3) I pulled the butt...
...and sliced the brisket. When I cut in to it, it seemed like it might be tough, but, it was not!
I was really worried about how much meat there was for only 8 people, but they proved to me that we are meat eaters! While there was some left over, it wasn't much!
The Masterbuilt ThermoTemp performed flawlessly!
I mixed up my own rub for the butt (turbinado sugar Kosher salt, fresh ground pepper, chili powder, cayene pepper, paprika, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder and dry mustard)
For the beef, salt and pepper only!
I got the smoker up to 225 and added some hickory chips. It was 11pm on Thursday night when I started. By 1:30 I was already seeing some good color on the butt.
I started spraying both with cranberry-raspberry juice after they reached an internal of 140 degrees and kept on going to 165. At that point, I pulled them and wrapped them both and let them go without smoke until they hit 195 and then I wrapped them up in towels and placed them in my cooler. That was about 9 am Friday morning.
At 6 PM when our church group arrived (only 5 people plus our 3) I pulled the butt...
...and sliced the brisket. When I cut in to it, it seemed like it might be tough, but, it was not!
I was really worried about how much meat there was for only 8 people, but they proved to me that we are meat eaters! While there was some left over, it wasn't much!
The Masterbuilt ThermoTemp performed flawlessly!
