Thanks all. Jeff, I didn't sleep well for sure. I must have had the smoker a bit too far from the bedroom because the maverick lost the signal once or twice and the chirp woke me. Once I was up it was hard to doze back off, I was nervous. I finally got to sleep when I remembered I had gotten the...
I started up the charcoal around 12:30 am Sunday morning. Started out as an 8.5 lb butt and ended up a pile of shredded goodness. It was my first overnight smoke and I awoke around 7:00 to a 197 degree readout on the maverick and hovering in stall at 163 degrees. I pulled off the middle ring and...
What Derrick said, I just finished my first overnight (does starting at 1:00 am count as overnight?) smoke of a .99 cent 9 pounder. In 14 hours I reached 197 degrees and it's resting in foil right now.
My smoker finally came in and I have fired it up twice. Being distracted with performing the smoke I have not been good about taking pictures. Today I attempted ribs as my second smoke and I think they turned out pretty well. Here are a couple of pictures of the aftermath. I had a pile I dusted...