hey y'all been absent due to life shit and work. Picked up a second cut brisket from my Italian market cause I had a hankerin' for burnt ends. Since it's not NASAR yet must have been for football.
posting mostly to remind y'all not to take things for granted. prepped thr meat as usual. Cooking on my MB560 gravity. As usual my inkbird i-BBQ4T initiated with one probe on the grate and two on the meat. Let it settle in with thermostat at 260 (since that setting usually yields a consistent 230-235 on the grate.
It was a beautiful warm Sunday and the jeep was all sparkly so I decided to do a quick run to lowes to see if they had any cherry chunks to change things up a bit. When I left chamber was at 240. I'm in town so Lowes is only a couple lights and 10 minutes away. got there and was waddling towards the grill section.
Got a text from Wifey. "Is the smoker ok?" shit. Turned on inkbird app and the chamber was at 459 degrees. F&*k...... told her to open the lid nd pull the meat off. waddled much more quickly to the jeep and busted ass home. When I pulled up, I could see smoke billowing up the back of the house. I've got a hard covered patio so smoke was just from the wood that hit in the chamber. Don't know how long the temp got that high as i don't typically set alarms. Th blower was blowing high nd there was a raging "smolder" going on and blowing into the chamber. to this day i don't know why it went beserk and wouldn't shut off the blower. The meat was barely singed so it was saved. cycled power nd closed the lid untill it settled back to 235. continued process to bark and wrap, with no incidents. the rest of the afternoon was uneventful nd the gravity settled right to 235 and held it for hours,.
So the story ended well. So no matter how comfortable you are with thermal/mechanical things, shit does happen. I'm just glad lowes is close nd the jeep was in a good mood. Pics for proof
one bark pic at 165, and finished.
carry on.
posting mostly to remind y'all not to take things for granted. prepped thr meat as usual. Cooking on my MB560 gravity. As usual my inkbird i-BBQ4T initiated with one probe on the grate and two on the meat. Let it settle in with thermostat at 260 (since that setting usually yields a consistent 230-235 on the grate.
It was a beautiful warm Sunday and the jeep was all sparkly so I decided to do a quick run to lowes to see if they had any cherry chunks to change things up a bit. When I left chamber was at 240. I'm in town so Lowes is only a couple lights and 10 minutes away. got there and was waddling towards the grill section.
Got a text from Wifey. "Is the smoker ok?" shit. Turned on inkbird app and the chamber was at 459 degrees. F&*k...... told her to open the lid nd pull the meat off. waddled much more quickly to the jeep and busted ass home. When I pulled up, I could see smoke billowing up the back of the house. I've got a hard covered patio so smoke was just from the wood that hit in the chamber. Don't know how long the temp got that high as i don't typically set alarms. Th blower was blowing high nd there was a raging "smolder" going on and blowing into the chamber. to this day i don't know why it went beserk and wouldn't shut off the blower. The meat was barely singed so it was saved. cycled power nd closed the lid untill it settled back to 235. continued process to bark and wrap, with no incidents. the rest of the afternoon was uneventful nd the gravity settled right to 235 and held it for hours,.
So the story ended well. So no matter how comfortable you are with thermal/mechanical things, shit does happen. I'm just glad lowes is close nd the jeep was in a good mood. Pics for proof
one bark pic at 165, and finished.
carry on.

