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chris comer

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Good morning Ladies & Gents. Colorado is represented in this weekends cooks. Pork butts on before sunrise, for a sunset dinner. Hope everyone enjoys their weekend and their BBQ.
Later.......Chris
 
Chris, you going high heat on this cook? Saucer or foiled pan? Interested in how your temps go at high altitude.
 
Put them on about 6AM, Lately I've just been using foiled pan. Temps have been in the 260-270 range most of the day. I must be burning alot of fuel because temps have just recently dropped to about 240-250. At the 9 hour mark I'm planning on checking temp and probably foil for a couple of hours. Hopefully they will be ready to come off in time for a rest. Looking to eat about 7PM. I have had pretty good success in the past with these day cooks and still getting dinner on the table at a reasonable hour. When I foil I'll check the fuel level and add if needed. Thanks for checking in.......Chris
 
i'll be in the great state in may...visiting colo springs and then estes park...haven't been but once in my life and that was about 10 years ago...my wife has never been past tenn.

hope the meat will be tasty!
 
Internals right at 160 foiled and back on. When I had the meat off I stirred the coals a little to vigorously and temps soared to 300. No worries though it'll come back down and a little extra heat might just help get thru plateau.

Coming out in May, nice time of year here. The high country will still have plenty of white stuff on the peaks, but it will be perfect everywhere else.
 
4:45pm pulled them off internal temp 200, probe sliding into warm butter. Resting in a cooler for about the next hour &1/2 waiting on company.
I think it should be some good eating.
 
Kevin, do you have any kind of cooking setup on your truck? A water tank? I know you have a refrigerator. Or do you carry charcoal and cook at parks that have grills when you don't have a scheduled dinner to cook for?

Rita
 
I buy water. I have the fridge, a nuker and a single burner butane stove. I keep meaning to fiddle with the Pyromid I scored a few years ago (remember by any chance the conversations Susan Z and I had about them?) but STILL haven't done so. (It's buried in the horse trailer or the barn so I forgetall the time.)

I just stopped in western SD and reheated a couple kale dumplings I brought from home in the nuker; toasted tortillas I nabbed at Harry's the other day, on the butane; then nuked a bit of the pulled/chopped chuck I did the other day while at home to have in the tortillas.

And I eat out a lot.

(I am too big for parks.)
 
(I am too big for parks.)
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Oh, I'm so disappointed!
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I was envisioning all of us, with notebooks and pens in hand, and cameras to record the event, crowded around a park-style grill at Jeff T Miller's park, for a cooking class entitled something like "Picnics in the Park - Gourmet Grilling on a Bare-Bones Grill" taught by Kevin Kruger. I'm sure that others would have other class titles that might come to mind. <eyeroll>
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Rita
 
Rita, you read my mind. I was just thinking that Kevin could come to my park. Now driving down into the trees may be a different story.

Now for a funny story. 2 years ago a group rented out a shelter house and I am outside watching the cars filter in. All of a sudden I look over and see a semi tractor pulling in. I am thinking surely he will park in the lot and not drive into the grove. Well he kept on truckin tree limbs slapping on the wind ferring on top of the sleeper. I just stood there shaking my head. I was like oh well if it doesn't bother him. I walked down and asked him not to drive across the bridges and he looked at me like I was an idiot. I was thinking if you will drive through the trees like that how am I supposed to know you won't drive across the bridges.
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Originally posted by t wright:
i'll be in the great state in may...visiting colo springs and then estes park...haven't been but once in my life and that was about 10 years ago...my wife has never been past tenn.

hope the meat will be tasty!
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When ya get to Estes make sure ya go to the Stanley Hotel and book the haunted hotel tour! We took the tour this weekend and it is awesome!! Peoples digital cameras were messing up in a certain part of the hotel called the vortex. Great tour!!
 
Terry, I'm so glad you mentioned the tour! I'll be out in Colorado in a few weeks after an aborted trip there a week or two ago. I'll try to squeeze that tour in as a welcome break from duties. It will make a fun family event. I love Estes Park, especially in the early mornings when you can see and hear the elk calls.

Rita
 
I was like oh well if it doesn't bother him. I walked down and asked him not to drive across the bridges and he looked at me like I was an idiot. I was thinking if you will drive through the trees like that how am I supposed to know you won't drive across the bridges.
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And you thought correctly. I have seen drivers do exactly that sort of thing. This profession is loaded with the ignorant and the immature.
 
When doing high heat butts, what temperature is the smoker and about how much time do you shave off the finished product? And is there a diffence in taste and texture? I'm asking because I'm trying to convince my wife to let me cook a couple of butts for our annual Mothers Day picnic for 13 or 14 people. How much butt should I get for that many people? There will be numerous sides of course.
 
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