This past Saturday I did the largest smoke I've ever done, a 10 lb Boston butt on the smoker. I'm smoking with an Old Smokey. I've read tons of places about the issues of getting a bark with this type of smoker, so I tried a little different method and I think it was pretty successful considering. I started the smoke at 5am and finished around 5pm. That seems fast, but because the smokey is something like an oven because it's more of a contained smoker, things cook faster. When the temps were about 140, I cracked the lid a little bit to remove the moisture from the chamber and to allow bark to begin forming. For some reason, at an IT of 165 the smoker stopped heating....not sure what happen here. I went ahead and wrapped it and popped it in the oven at 280 to finish it off. Here's the end product. A good smoke flavor and pulled pretty darn easy.
