It's a balmy 17°F with little to no wind. The smoker is heating up and the butts should be on in about 10 minutes. Check back in a few hours for progress and pix. DEW
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Are you wrapping at the stall? I do, and I recommend it with the smallies.Comment
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Yes. That's why I'm calling it "in the Huskee style".Comment
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You said an hour into the stall, right?Comment
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Butts went on at 8:45. Using hickory and a couple of kingsford blue briquettes for smoke. Smoker temp is holding nicely in the 240's. IT of the butts is skyrocketing at the moment.
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Looking good dewComment
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Yeah, it takes 20-30 min or so to recognize the stall, then I let it go another "while" to get more smoke and bark. That "while" I would estimate might be an hourish total in most cases. The last coupla butts I did last week I let them go longer and I felt it dried them out a bit much. There's no right or wrong way. Having a 1 lb hunk you may not want to go too long after you recognize the stall, however let it be known I don't run an electric, the humidity dynamics are way different. I only know how they behave on my stickburner with massive airflow.
Exciting stuff.Comment
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Got it. I have left the vent wide open with an empty water pan to try to keep the humidity down for bark formation. We'll see how it goes. But the big piece is already at 122°F after an hour and 45. I know things will slow down when the stall hits but it seems too fast, that said, both pieces are going up at a similar rate which I know since I have the smoker's built-in probe stuck in the little guy.Comment
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3 hours and 15 mins in, the IT on the bigger piece is 149°F. It has been rising noticeably slower for the last 1/2 hour or so. I suppose it is getting ready to stall.
Last edited by Dewesq55; January 9, 2015, 11:11 AM.Comment
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Four hours into the cook exactly and we are officially stalled at 151°F. It's been holding there for about 30 minutes. Another 30 mins and I will wrap them. Temp is pretty even for this cooker - between 230° and 240° most of the time. Never going below 225° except the last time I opened the door to take a picture.Comment
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Are you using your Barrister DEW's rum sauce on these? Have you ever tried Meathead's Columbia Gold? Mmm, if you like a Carolina mustard-style sauce it's great.Comment
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I'm going to be using my Barrister DEW's Pulled Pork Sauce, which is my own riff on Western Carolina/Lexington style sauce. It's a thinner, more vinegary sauce with some tomato and spice in it as well.
I might try the Columbia Gold on another cook in the not too distant future.
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Huskee, I made the Barrister's Rum Molasses BBQ sauce and it is great. I tacked it on the build thread in the recipe section on DEW's thread with the recipe.
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4 and 1/2 hours in. They have good bark (Harry Soo scratch test) except for one spot on one piece which had a little dip where the juices pooled. They are separately wrapped in a double layer of HD foil and back on. I moved the MAV probe to the smaller piece with the smoker's built in probe in the larger one since the smoker probe I can't read with out going outside. I don't want to over cook the small guy.
Huskee, do you take them right to 203°F and then cambro? Or do you pull them off a degree or 2 below that?
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I usually shoot for the magical 203 mark, but 195-205 is ok so a degree or two would be of very little significance.Comment
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