SMOKING DAY!!!
Got the beef out of the brine, I split the two halves into quarters and sacked them up in cotton ham bags and hung them in the smokehouse and got out my new thermometer, plugged a probe into each piece, then replaced my old thermometer in the door of the smokehouse with another probe while the wood chunks were going in the fry pan on the propane burner. I had to retire my old cameras and now use my iPhone camera instead (my latest Windows 10 upgrade killed my old cameras programs; it was time). Now I just send my photos from my iPhone to my email address on the computer and download into a specific folder on the computer (on this, my beef bacon folder).
My thermometer:
probe in each meat:
Probe in the smokehouse door, replacing my old one:
and the individual temps on my iPhone:
Only have to get up and add wood chunks now! I can monitor the temps of each probe from my chair, plus the smokehouse temp. I've got an alarm set for 290° as maximum high; if the smokehouse gets that high then a chunk or something else is on fire and the alarm will beep, VERY loudly!!! Probe 2 is in a smaller piece, so I will know when it's done, plus i've got an instant read digital thermometer to check the piece (and all other pieces) in various places, too!
The probes are almost instantaneous readings, so I can just probe in different sections if I wish and see it on my iPhone, too.
They are cooking right along, i don't anticipate any stall as I'm only going to 150° - 155° so the meat is firm and sliceable, not falling apart like at 180° or higher.
I (ahem...) did slice off a couple 1/8th inch slices from one end of one piece and cooked them on the grill - OH! WOW!!! Had my wife try it, she said it was just right, not very salty at all, but enough!