Temp

[jeffsa22]

New at smoking maybe a dumb question when do you start timing when smoker reaches temp or as soon as put the bird in took almost 45min to come back up am i doing something wrong electric 30" masterbuilt smoker thank you Happy Thanksgiving

 

[ps0303]

As soon as I got my smoker to the desired temp I stuck the bird in and from that moment I started watching my time/internal temp(IT). I put my bird in around 730 and right at 10 00 it hit 140 IT. Smoker was around 300 the entire time. Now that I'm at 140 I lowered to smoker to around 250

 

[jzampier]

Depends on the outside temp, that's a little slow but it has to warm a good sized interior so it's not bad. Start your time when the bird is in the MES.

 

[ldrus]

What are you timing ? I'm guessing the danger zone time?..
Go with from time the bird went in. The cool temp of the bird
Will bring your smoker temp down.. you'll be just fine

 

[jzampier]

Depends on the outside temp, that's a little slow but it has to warm a good sized interior so it's not bad. Start your time when the bird is in the MES.

Read it a little fast, thought you were saying it took 45 min to get up to initial temp with no bird. As stated above me, worry about your IT of the bird. The smoker has to heat up a large chunk of meat. It can take a bit some times.

 

[jeffsa22]

Thanks for the quick response have the the temp gauge inside the bird already about 35 deg outside when started

 

[jeffsa22]

Thanks for your all the help turkey seemed to cook very quick right around four hours temp said it was done had one temp gauge in each breast and read 8 deg diff chech with instead read to said done seems quick to me 14.88 pds at 250 deg doesnt seem right but what dio i know