Forrest Joyner
TVWBB Member
Merry Christmas to All....
By request, I'm doing a first ever pork shoulder for Christmas Eve dinner tomorrow night. Certainly not my first pork butt by any means, but first over the holidays.
The butt goes on tonight around midnight. I can usually 'set it and forget it' with my 18.5" WSM and it will go perfectly for 12+ hours with no attention by me at all. However, that's when the ambient temp outside is at least 50+ degrees. Tonight will be in the teens with maybe a little snow.
My cooker will be just outside the garage door, so blocked from the wind, but not much of the cold. The only other curveball, is that I'm using lump charcoal tonight (didn't realize I was out of my usual Kingsford). Lump usually burns hotter, but that also means it usually will burn out, in my experience, sooner and need to be re-stoked.
It will be an interesting night. I don't think I'll get as much sleep as a normally would with an overnight smoke.
I'll post back with results in case anyone is interested.
Forrest
By request, I'm doing a first ever pork shoulder for Christmas Eve dinner tomorrow night. Certainly not my first pork butt by any means, but first over the holidays.
The butt goes on tonight around midnight. I can usually 'set it and forget it' with my 18.5" WSM and it will go perfectly for 12+ hours with no attention by me at all. However, that's when the ambient temp outside is at least 50+ degrees. Tonight will be in the teens with maybe a little snow.
My cooker will be just outside the garage door, so blocked from the wind, but not much of the cold. The only other curveball, is that I'm using lump charcoal tonight (didn't realize I was out of my usual Kingsford). Lump usually burns hotter, but that also means it usually will burn out, in my experience, sooner and need to be re-stoked.
It will be an interesting night. I don't think I'll get as much sleep as a normally would with an overnight smoke.
I'll post back with results in case anyone is interested.
Forrest