Hello everybody,
So here is the situation: I was trying to do an overnight cook on a "School Night" to bring on a camping trip for the weekend. (Can't haul a WSM in my little car full of Camping gear.)
I awoke this morning before work and internal temp had dropped from 150 (at 2:00am) to 140. Cooker was at 230 and dropped to 200 by morning.
So I double foiled it at 6am and opened the vents to try and get the temp higher. This might have helped if I had 2-3 hours but I have bills to pay and had to get to work, so it only got about 1 hour of higher heat; that's wishful thinking because the cooker had to come up to temp first.
I put the foiled butt in a pan and covered it again with foil and put it in the fridge.
So my dilemma is this: Now what?
Back on the smoker for 12 hours to get a partially cooked butt up to temp or keep it foiled and finish in oven tonight?
Wife would not let me put it in the oven while we weren't home and I did not want to leave the butt on the cooker unattended for 9-10 hours (we commute).
Any advice is appreciated.
So here is the situation: I was trying to do an overnight cook on a "School Night" to bring on a camping trip for the weekend. (Can't haul a WSM in my little car full of Camping gear.)
I awoke this morning before work and internal temp had dropped from 150 (at 2:00am) to 140. Cooker was at 230 and dropped to 200 by morning.
So I double foiled it at 6am and opened the vents to try and get the temp higher. This might have helped if I had 2-3 hours but I have bills to pay and had to get to work, so it only got about 1 hour of higher heat; that's wishful thinking because the cooker had to come up to temp first.
I put the foiled butt in a pan and covered it again with foil and put it in the fridge.
So my dilemma is this: Now what?
Back on the smoker for 12 hours to get a partially cooked butt up to temp or keep it foiled and finish in oven tonight?
Wife would not let me put it in the oven while we weren't home and I did not want to leave the butt on the cooker unattended for 9-10 hours (we commute).
Any advice is appreciated.
