Overnight Lump Success

[Pat McCreight]

I enjoy cooking with lump, especially now that I have 400+ pounds in my garage. I have been using briquettes for overnight cooks, though.

This weekend I decided it was time to do an overnight with lump and see how long it can run. I filled the ring with about 9 pounds of lump and spent maybe 5 minutes packing it together to eliminate large gaps.

For the cook - I had a 16# cryovac of pork butts , one turned out to be quite a bit larger than the other. I put the large one on the bottom rack at midnight, with a target temp of 225 top grate. I used the stoker and, for the first time, a full water pan.

The stoker maintained rock solid temps through the night. Better than usual, probably due to the water pan. Here's the log for the cook.

Stoker Log

I put the second butt, which I butterflied, on at 1:15 the following afternoon. When I added smoke wood, I noticed there was still a good amount of lump remaining.

Around 4:30 the large butt was taking FOREVER, so I decided to foil it and add some fuel.

Long story short, I easily got 16 hours on a single load of lump. Probably could have gotten a couple more hours, but I wanted to run the temp up at the end to move things along.

Here's a pic of the 2 butts - 1 pulled, 1 sliced / hacked up.
Pork

 

[Craig Castille]

Looks great. Good pics.

If conditions are fair, I can get 24 hours plus on about 10 lbs of lump.

16 is great though.

 

[Steve Forwe]

Wow 24 hrs. Could you take a pic of your charcaol bowl next time you pack one up?

 

[Alan D]

I enjoyed seeing your dog enjoying the piece he was destroying...that looked like one happy dog to me...

Nice job on the butts, I will be attempting that in a couple weeks, next week my wife has hinted she would like some fish...

Those look nice.

 

[Pat McCreight]

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I enjoyed seeing your dog enjoying the piece he was destroying...that looked like one happy dog to me...

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Yes, I pulled the bone off the butt I butterflied and gave it to her raw. She loved it. She doesn't get many treats like that.

 

[Tony Hunter]

The WSM is air-tight enough to maintain some amazing cooking times on one load of coal. The longest I have gotten with Kingsford is 21.5 hours. I have done a 18 hour cook with lump, but I am sure I could easily get more.