Peteg
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[FONT="]Hey guys, just wanted to post a quick write up about the weekend cook. We loaded it up with 9 shoulders and 1 huge brisket. I started out by running at about 450-500 degrees for about 3 hours, just to see what kind of effects the high temps will have on the firebox area. After we let it cool down, we through everything on. The white oak shown in the pic is all of the wood that we used for the 3 hours at high heat, and then about 4-5 hours around 275. With everything loaded, we added stick every 40 minutes or so, give or take. Temps during the stick burning time were about 5-10 higher for each rack that got closer to the bottom. The very bottom rack was about 40 degrees hotter for this portion of the cook, but I later found out the my temp probe was actually hanging down, about 4” below rack level. So I don’t think the temp difference was that significant. After about 4-5 hours, we wrapped the brisket and added 16 lbs of lump charcoal. No wrap for the pork, as I wanted to see if we would run into grease problems (we didn’t). I closed up the valve and it coasted through the night. I woke up a few times to check temps and they were always in the 200-235 range (just what I like overnight). The temp difference between the racks, was less significant when running charcoal. At 7:30, everything was done and I dropped the temp to 150 until we pulled everything, about 4 hours later. All in all, I was thrilled with the way everything cooked. Even though the bottom rack appeared to run a little bit hotter, the meat on the bottom did not finish a great deal earlier than the rest of the meat. I have a couple of mods that I’d like try for the next cook, but for now I’m real happy with it. Thanks for looking![/FONT]
[FONT="]Pete[/FONT]
[FONT="]Pete[/FONT]