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This is my second smoke on my WSM.
I used the minion method and started (2) 4lb. Butts at 9:30am today. I have held the grate temp. to a pretty steady 240. At about 3:30 I flipped and rotated the butts and inserted the meat probe.Once the lid was put beck on the meat temp read 170.
About 10 minutes later it dropped to 163...Is that from the 60 seconds that I had the lid off the smoker? I find that hard to believe.
My expectation is that the meat temp should do nothing but rise steadily. Is it typical to see the meat temp fluctuate like this?
Any suggestions?
P.S. My plan is to pull the pork when it hits 190...anyone think I'll be eating by 7pm (It's 5pm now and the meat temp is 164). My guess is that I'll be eating by 10-11pm tonite...the wife will not be happy about that (at least the kids will be in bed...ha ha).
I used the minion method and started (2) 4lb. Butts at 9:30am today. I have held the grate temp. to a pretty steady 240. At about 3:30 I flipped and rotated the butts and inserted the meat probe.Once the lid was put beck on the meat temp read 170.
About 10 minutes later it dropped to 163...Is that from the 60 seconds that I had the lid off the smoker? I find that hard to believe.
My expectation is that the meat temp should do nothing but rise steadily. Is it typical to see the meat temp fluctuate like this?
Any suggestions?
P.S. My plan is to pull the pork when it hits 190...anyone think I'll be eating by 7pm (It's 5pm now and the meat temp is 164). My guess is that I'll be eating by 10-11pm tonite...the wife will not be happy about that (at least the kids will be in bed...ha ha).