Timothy F. Lewis
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Beautiful weather for smoking a brisket for my wife’s son’s birthday!
Being Michigan, sometimes the weather can take a strange turn with little warning! Anyway, after getting all cleaned up and putting on a fresh white shirt, I decide I should set up the smoker for the brisket, I successfully got the whole thing set up and charged with KBB and apple chunks. Amazingly, I manage to not covering myself in charcoal dust! That’s strange fun fact number one.
Went to pick up my wife and do a little shopping. Home and had a couple of cocktails, make dinner and about eight I decide that it’s time to go ahead and fire the WSM off, sidewinder minion method, let that settle in and trim the brisket rubbed with kosher salt and cracked black pepper pop it on and shut down vents as normal.
Everything seems just dandy, I take the remote up to the bedside table and hit the rack.
6:00 AM. Saturday morning
Something seems to be smelling heavenly with the windows open and early summer fragrance in the air. I roll over and look at the thermometer...
Strange occurrence #2
The probe temp reads....209!
I just jump up, change my underwear and pull on something and FLY down the stairs, probe the beast and it’s like jello, Warm jello at that! So, there is obviously nothing I can do to slow anything so, I’ve just just double wrapped in foil and holding in towels in a cooler for the time being.
I have no idea how this 14 pound packer managed to cook in nine hours instead of the 16 I had allotted but, it did!
This is the opposite of what usually happens, they always run late! But, the great God Hephaestus, seems to have deemed today a good day to fool with one of his acolytes!
Oh well, I guess I can have it for breakfast too!
Being Michigan, sometimes the weather can take a strange turn with little warning! Anyway, after getting all cleaned up and putting on a fresh white shirt, I decide I should set up the smoker for the brisket, I successfully got the whole thing set up and charged with KBB and apple chunks. Amazingly, I manage to not covering myself in charcoal dust! That’s strange fun fact number one.
Went to pick up my wife and do a little shopping. Home and had a couple of cocktails, make dinner and about eight I decide that it’s time to go ahead and fire the WSM off, sidewinder minion method, let that settle in and trim the brisket rubbed with kosher salt and cracked black pepper pop it on and shut down vents as normal.
Everything seems just dandy, I take the remote up to the bedside table and hit the rack.
6:00 AM. Saturday morning
Something seems to be smelling heavenly with the windows open and early summer fragrance in the air. I roll over and look at the thermometer...
Strange occurrence #2
The probe temp reads....209!
I just jump up, change my underwear and pull on something and FLY down the stairs, probe the beast and it’s like jello, Warm jello at that! So, there is obviously nothing I can do to slow anything so, I’ve just just double wrapped in foil and holding in towels in a cooler for the time being.
I have no idea how this 14 pound packer managed to cook in nine hours instead of the 16 I had allotted but, it did!
This is the opposite of what usually happens, they always run late! But, the great God Hephaestus, seems to have deemed today a good day to fool with one of his acolytes!
Oh well, I guess I can have it for breakfast too!
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