- Jul 30, 2015
- 6
- 10
I rubbed my pork butt last night and put it in the fridge then went directly from fridge to smoker this morning. I'm a bit concerned because I put a new probe that I forgot to wash or sanitize into my meat this morning as soon as it went on the smoker. It was right out of the box. Once I realized what I had done I raised the smoker temp to make sure I would cross the 140 temp within 4 hours. I'm at 3 hours now and 141. Will all of the bad stuff cook off the probe or should I toss the butt and consider it a lesson learned? I'll be feeding it too my young kids so would rather be safe than sorry and still have time to throw some ribs on the grill before dinner.