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midnightdinner

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Aug 29, 2012
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So I dont usually post on the forums but I decided to take some time today to post todays dinner project. I brinned the butt last night, took it out around 1pm, made up a rub and a nice bbq sauce. I rubbed the butt and let it sit for 2 or so hours, and about 30min ago I put it on the smoker. For smoke I'm using maple. I'm using maple because that's the wood we burn for our woodstove, and since I dont feel like driving all the way into town for some hickory or mesquite maple it is. I'm trying to keep the temp around 200 or so. I'm posting on here in hopes I can get some feedback. I'm gunna be updating my post as the smoke gets rollin, but I wanna know how it looks, any tips any of you smokeheads can give, and just some general feedback. Thanks for reading, hope to hear from some of you, and there will be more to come!



-midnightdinner 
 
Lookin' good so far...one suggestion:  I would probably kick the temp up in the smoker to 225*-250*.  That's the range alot of us cook butts at, some even higher than that.  At 200, you could struggle to get it through the danger zone (Internal Temp of the meat from 40* to 140* in 4 hours or less).  Also, when it hits the inevitable stall that all butts go through,  a cooker temp of 250* will help power it through that stall a little faster.  Just my 2 cents, Good Luck, and let us know how it goes!

Red
 
You are in for a long night!  Will try and hang with ya!  
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Kat
 
Thanks for the tip on the temp, took some more coals outta the woodstove and added them to get the temp up, looks like it's at 250ish right now. Forgot to say earlier that instead of charcoal im using coals from the stove. Glad I'll be having some company on here tonight, I hate cookin alone haha. 

 
I am in there even though I am too new to smoking to offer advice. I just like food pictures. This looks great!
 
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What a long night haha, and NO BEER?! shoulda got some beers but anyways took till about 3:30 or so it get to 200 so I pulled it then. Quickly wrapped it in foil, then dozed off for a bit. Woke up about an hour and a half later and checked it out. Oh man, what a juicy butt haha. I think this ended up being my best one by far. Cook time just about 12 hours. Thanks to all those who gave me some tips and just posted on my thread.

     
 
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