Tom Ferguson
Banned
Last night I had my strangest experience yet with the WSM. I fired it up using the Minion Method, full ring of unlit plus about 15 fully lit.
7 lb Brisket flat on the bottom grate, 2 7 lb butts on the top.
Took the longest time to get up to cooking temp, about an 1-1/2 hours, longer than usual, but with that much meat, probably not bad. The brisket was at 170 in about 5 hours! Temps in the WSM were running 240 at the top grate throughout the cook. That's higher than I usually run, but I just let the WSM find its own temp and I didn't mess with it. Didn't waver from 240 more than 5 degrees all night.
I took the Brisket off and foiled it and stuck it in the oven at 200*. Tossed a couple of racks of spares on the bottom grate in place of the brisket.
9:00 this morning (12 hours after I started) the butts were at 197! I figured that can't be right, so I checked them with my Thermapen. 197! Bones pulled right out with no effort.
I have never cooked butts that fast. I guess when they say "it's done when it's done" that works both ways, shorter cook times as well as longer cook times.
BBQ & Beer for breakfast on the 4th of July.
Is this a great country or what??
7 lb Brisket flat on the bottom grate, 2 7 lb butts on the top.
Took the longest time to get up to cooking temp, about an 1-1/2 hours, longer than usual, but with that much meat, probably not bad. The brisket was at 170 in about 5 hours! Temps in the WSM were running 240 at the top grate throughout the cook. That's higher than I usually run, but I just let the WSM find its own temp and I didn't mess with it. Didn't waver from 240 more than 5 degrees all night.
I took the Brisket off and foiled it and stuck it in the oven at 200*. Tossed a couple of racks of spares on the bottom grate in place of the brisket.
9:00 this morning (12 hours after I started) the butts were at 197! I figured that can't be right, so I checked them with my Thermapen. 197! Bones pulled right out with no effort.
I have never cooked butts that fast. I guess when they say "it's done when it's done" that works both ways, shorter cook times as well as longer cook times.
BBQ & Beer for breakfast on the 4th of July.