Getting ambitious

[cowboyj103]

Decided that since I have been getting pretty solid on my offset I would go for a big cook. Got 30 pounds of pork butt going today

 

[02ebz06]

Lookin' good! When do we eat?

 

[cowboyj103]

Hoping they’re wrapped here in the next three or four hours. I actually messed up and started a little late, so it might be around nine my time before they’re finished if all goes well. I’m in alaska so it’s still only 1:45 here.

 

[02ebz06]

If you get in a time crunch, you can always raise the temp to speed things up.

 

[cowboyj103]

She’s running nice and steady at 250 right now. I did have some wind gusts early on cause brief spikes to close to 300, but luckily I like to babysit it so I was able to knock them down by shutting the flow down a bit. Hoping they didn’t cause too much harm.

 

[cowboyj103]

 

[cowboyj103]

They’re actually within seven degrees of each other right now. 132-139 spread across the three

 

[SmokinEdge]

Looks good I’m in for the ride.

 

[DemonPit]

Those look TASTY!!!

 

[JckDanls 07]

Looking good so far... Are rotating (shuffling around) them every our or two ??

 

[cowboyj103]

I thought I would have to. I haven’t yet because my internal temps are almost even across all three at this point. When the cook started, the one in the middle wanted to stay around 20 degrees hotter, but as they passed 120 ish they evened out. Think I should do it anyhow?

 

[cowboyj103]

Also, I want to thank all of you guys for comments and likes. I absolutely love doing this stuff, and it’s great that there’s a community out there who shares that and provides great advice. I haven’t posted a ton on here yet but I’ve gotten tons of great info that has really helped me come around with my smoker. Thanks!

 

[jcam222]

She’s running nice and steady at 250 right now. I did have some wind gusts early on cause brief spikes to close to 300, but luckily I like to babysit it so I was able to knock them down by shutting the flow down a bit. Hoping they didn’t cause too much harm.

Don't get too stressed over shorter 50 degree swings. I used to get pretty crazy over trying to run tight to a specific temp on my stick burner. I'm perfectly happy ok longer cooks to run +/- 50 most the time now. For shorter things like ribs I'll tighten that up. Butts are looking great.

 

[babydocsmoke]

Looking good!! What kind of rig do you run?

 

[cowboyj103]

Right now a sheet metal special I got on sale 5 years ago at bass pro. About to upgrade to a solid cast iron offset though.

 

[cowboyj103]

 

[cowboyj103]

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Wrapped at 170. Bones starting to separate and probing tender. Might be able to have these for a late dinner yet.

 

[JckDanls 07]

Might be able to have these for a late dinner yet.

You'll want to rest them in a cooler for a minimum of an hour... Longer is better ...

 

[DRKsmoking]

Looks great, nice batch of butts

David

 

[cowboyj103]

Oh yeah, they’ll be in the oven still wrapped for at least two before I pull them.