High heat grommets and first real cook

[rico334]

First question is: I ordered off Ebay some silicon high heat grommets so that I can insert probes through them. They got here and I would need about 10 barrel thicknesses to hold them

snug in the hole. Does anyone have a link or source for high heat grommets that will fit perfectly for the thickness of these drums ?

Next, I did a chicken this morning as a practice run for doing a turkey in a couple of weeks for Thanksgiving. I had never heard the term "Brine" before but made up my own from salt, brown

sugar and water and brined the yard bird for 12 hours. Smoked it this morning @ 250* until the internal temp got to 165* and then pulled it, wrapped it and let it sit for about 30 minutes. OMG,

best, most juicy bird I have ever eaten.... Will never put another cut of meat in this thing without brining it first......

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• rico334
• Nov 8, 2015

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• rico334
• Nov 8, 2015

 

[thickstrings]

You could try  some high heat silicon caulk to hold the grommets in.....nice bird!

 

[jamielamb]

I go to Ace Hardware and buy their electrical rubber grommets.  They are about $0.55, fit perfectly and I have had no issues whatsoever with them being exposed to heat.

 

[rico334]

Great..... Thanks guys !!!

 

[tito]

hey check out the thread I started in this forum titled "how to get probes in the UDS?"  it has links for the grommets for Weber smokey mountain smoker    those grommets work awesome!!!!