Dinner, then butts and 1st time beans

[Alan Soden]

CI skillet - thanks to learning from TVWBB

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steaks on the sear burner

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tomatoes & mozz

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[Alan Soden]

ok beans - bush's traditional and navy, onions bacon jalapeno molasses and a bottle of good beer

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it all goes on last night 1030-11pm

 

[Alan Soden]

this morning added another can bush's, another can of navy, cooked bacon, green and yellow bell peppers, some brown sugar, and oh yes a can of apple pie filling! again no wrapping the butts. hit a huge stall at 156*...

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[Tony R]

I will start with this and will wait patiently for the pork butt.

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[Bill Schultz]

Great looking dish Alan, love the Bean dish, perfect. Like Tony looking forward to the finish

 

[Tim McCann]

Very nice plate.

 

[Alan Soden]

OK so those beans were sucking all the heat out of the smoker.
1130pm - 1pm at 250* and butts were sitting at 167*.
Put the beans in the oven at 350 and butts are starting to climb now, up to 176.
So lesson learned for me next time will take them off after 6 hours or so.

 

[Paul Kastner]

Never would have thought the beans would act as a heat sink.

 

[Matt Gard]

I bet those beans were spectacular. Everything looked great.

 

[John Solak]

A great dinner and nice start on another!!! What did you put on top of the steak?

 

[Alan Soden]

A great dinner and nice start on another!!! What did you put on top of the steak?

salt & pepper, fresh parm/romano and parsley. we love fresh parsley here.

 

[Alan Soden]

this was the most challenging cook i've had. those beans sucked the life out of my smoker. after putting beans in oven, ran out of fuel at about 2pm with meat sitting at 176* after 15 hours at around 250*. tried to add KB and handle broke again. ok, time to get that compression latch and drill out CB SS door to a 5/8 hole, so about $18 for latch and $42 for a uni-bit. wired door shut after adding coals and FINALLY the butts finished...

 

[Mike Coffman]

Plated picture looks delicious! I have also never heard of beans acting as a
heat sink. First time for everything.

 

[Alan Soden]

butts done

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beans done

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bark with capital B

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bones pulled clean

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pulled

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and FINALLY

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[Alan Soden]

thanks to everyone on TVWBB, have learned from all, improved on great new hobby, and will continue to...

 

[Alan Soden]

Plated picture looks delicious! I have also never heard of beans acting as a
heat sink. First time for everything.

well you can have a gallon of water in the water pan or a gallon of beans in a foil pan. the beans in sauce are probably 90% water so my guess is same diff. i can tell you my stall with the beans in was 3+ hours, longest i've ever had...

 

[David]

Very nice............................d

 

[Andy Beers]

Looks like a winner

 

[Bob Mann]

Great looking cook Alan!

 

[Rich Dahl]

Alan, like you I've learned so much in such a short time from this forum even my so called failures are better then what I did before. Excellent multi level cook, looks really great.