Well, it was time to get the bright yellow drum dirty.
Picked up an 11.76 pound packer at my local Cash and Carry.
Rubbed it with the following ingredients . . .
using the Tri Level Rub method . . .
and on to the smoker at 10 pm Friday night.
Saturday morning I went out to check about 7:30 and it looked like this at 148° . . .
Uh oh . . . the drum is getting dirty.
At 165° I put it in a foil pan . . .
And cooked it till the Thermapen poked through it like butter. (Various spots were between 195° to about 203°)
Had some guest over for dinner and we all tore into it pretty good. By the time I got around to taking finish pictures, this is all that was left.
Seasoning came out really well. Didn't have much of a bark though because of the foil I am sure. Oh, and I discovered I had a whacked temp probe so I was actually smoking it at about 200° to maybe 230°. No wonder it took 17 hours. Kind of long for a drum I thought. But made more sense once I investigated the temp issue.
All in all it was pretty darn tasty.
Thanks for looking.
Dave
