Ordered my PBC on Monday, should be here (North Carolina) Friday. Looking forward to some good meats.
Planning on cooking some ribs and a pork butt for pulled pork on Saturday. We're having guests over the following weekend and were thinking of doing 2 butts. I have a question regarding cook times - is the cook time the same for 2 butts as it is for 1? Does cook time get longer when you add more meat? I ask because years ago we used to do beer can chickens on the gas grill. A single chicken would cook in 1.5 hours. Decided to do 2 chickens one time, expecting the same or maybe 2 hours, and it ended up taking 3! Don't want to promise some good Q and then have to make my guests wait.
Thinking I'll start a notebook in either Evernote, OneNote, or even Excel or Google Docs spreadsheet to track my cooks. Include info like:
Date, Start Time, Type of Meat, Amount of Meat, Outside Temp, Inside Temp at 1, 2,...hours, meat temp at 1, 2....hours, Total Cook Time, and Comments. Anyone else doing that? Have a template to share? Thinking spreadsheet may be best because then I could filter by type of meat etc before a cook to remind myself what to expect. Imagine that with time & experience, it would get less use.
Watching videos and this forum until Sat :grin:
Thanks!