Hello all,
Just thought I would post about my first pork butt. It is going according to plan so far, using the "Pork Butt Renowned Mr. Brown" as a guide. I have two 8lb butt's in my relatively new WSM, one on the top and one on the bottom racks. I have only done 1 pork loin and 1 whole turkey previously. I thought I would attempt this for a gathering of 17 on Sunday (today is Friday). My back up plan is homemade burgers on my performer.
The saga started yesterday, my butt's were purchased at 1:00pm, seasoned right away, and sitting at room temp since about 5:00pm. At 8:30pm, my WSM was up to 200deg and I put on the butts. I got the temp pretty stable between 230 and 240. I set my wireless temp probes low's and high's at 205 and 255 and went to bed for the night. The low temp alarm woke me this morning at 6:30 when I stoked and replenished the coals and topped up the water pan. Since then it has been a slow and steady temp rise from 150deg to 190deg at noon. It is now 1:15pm they have almost been on the WSM for 17 hours and I am stuck at 190deg. I have raised the WSM temp from the 230's to the 240's and it still won't budge.
The tin foil is cut, the cooler is ready, I'm just itching to take these thinks off the grill. This low and slow thing really requires allot of patience.
No real question here, just wanted to vent. If however anything jumps out at you as being a little off, feel free to comment.
Just thought I would post about my first pork butt. It is going according to plan so far, using the "Pork Butt Renowned Mr. Brown" as a guide. I have two 8lb butt's in my relatively new WSM, one on the top and one on the bottom racks. I have only done 1 pork loin and 1 whole turkey previously. I thought I would attempt this for a gathering of 17 on Sunday (today is Friday). My back up plan is homemade burgers on my performer.
The saga started yesterday, my butt's were purchased at 1:00pm, seasoned right away, and sitting at room temp since about 5:00pm. At 8:30pm, my WSM was up to 200deg and I put on the butts. I got the temp pretty stable between 230 and 240. I set my wireless temp probes low's and high's at 205 and 255 and went to bed for the night. The low temp alarm woke me this morning at 6:30 when I stoked and replenished the coals and topped up the water pan. Since then it has been a slow and steady temp rise from 150deg to 190deg at noon. It is now 1:15pm they have almost been on the WSM for 17 hours and I am stuck at 190deg. I have raised the WSM temp from the 230's to the 240's and it still won't budge.
The tin foil is cut, the cooler is ready, I'm just itching to take these thinks off the grill. This low and slow thing really requires allot of patience.
No real question here, just wanted to vent. If however anything jumps out at you as being a little off, feel free to comment.