BobJ
TVWBB Super Fan
Did my 3rd butt yesterday, 8lbs on a WSM 14, came out pretty good but I'm wondering if it was overcooked.
Put it on 10pm Sunday @ 225, bumped up the temp to 250-275 as it was cold out and the meat temp at 6am was pretty low.
Struggled with the temp all day finding it hard to get up to 250, using KBB for the first time. Ended up having to start some coal in the chimney at noon and adding them to it at one point.
Stalled at 150. Around 2:30 pm the meat temp had come up to 194. Checked it with a Thermapen, it varied from 200 at the bottom, to 194 in the center, then about 185 at the top.
Smoker temp was between 235 and 245 towards the end, meat in the center slowly dropped from 194 to 190, when I took it off.
The meat came out good but not as good as the last. The bark was pretty hard, and very black, the whole thing shrunk a lot too. There was almost no fat when I pulled it.
I did not wrap, I had spritzed it with apple juice about once an hour for the last 4 hours or so.
Does the temp drop mean it was over cooked? I had not been messing with the coals or opening the cover (when I checked the temp with the Thermapen, for the last hour, which is when the temp was dropping.
Put it on 10pm Sunday @ 225, bumped up the temp to 250-275 as it was cold out and the meat temp at 6am was pretty low.
Struggled with the temp all day finding it hard to get up to 250, using KBB for the first time. Ended up having to start some coal in the chimney at noon and adding them to it at one point.
Stalled at 150. Around 2:30 pm the meat temp had come up to 194. Checked it with a Thermapen, it varied from 200 at the bottom, to 194 in the center, then about 185 at the top.
Smoker temp was between 235 and 245 towards the end, meat in the center slowly dropped from 194 to 190, when I took it off.
The meat came out good but not as good as the last. The bark was pretty hard, and very black, the whole thing shrunk a lot too. There was almost no fat when I pulled it.
I did not wrap, I had spritzed it with apple juice about once an hour for the last 4 hours or so.
Does the temp drop mean it was over cooked? I had not been messing with the coals or opening the cover (when I checked the temp with the Thermapen, for the last hour, which is when the temp was dropping.