VisaliaIPA
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- Jul 22, 2013
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- Visalia, CA
Well this is the 2nd brisket I decided to do after I messed up the first one. Lessons learned from the first cook was my Traeger temps were way off what the actual temps were. Temps were off 35-30 degrees. Traeger reading 250 and actual 290.
This time I kept that in mind and set it at 225 and put it on at 0500 this morning. Went to coffee and came home and noticed my digital thermometer was reading 265-277.
I turnd themTraeger down to 180.....I wish it had a 200° setting but it doesn't. At 180 it's reading about 225-230 then it dips as the pellets burn down to about 215. Then dumps pellets and goes up to 235 then stabilizes at 225.
This is my first pellet smoker so is this somewhat normal. I know it gonna burn a little hot when it first dumps ballets but it seems like huge swings.
Now the internal temp,of the brisket is about 130-160 in various areas and seems like it's cooking too fast..........and that's after almost 5 hours.
This time I kept that in mind and set it at 225 and put it on at 0500 this morning. Went to coffee and came home and noticed my digital thermometer was reading 265-277.
I turnd themTraeger down to 180.....I wish it had a 200° setting but it doesn't. At 180 it's reading about 225-230 then it dips as the pellets burn down to about 215. Then dumps pellets and goes up to 235 then stabilizes at 225.
This is my first pellet smoker so is this somewhat normal. I know it gonna burn a little hot when it first dumps ballets but it seems like huge swings.
Now the internal temp,of the brisket is about 130-160 in various areas and seems like it's cooking too fast..........and that's after almost 5 hours.