Monster Butts

[irishteabear]

I have no pp left in the freezer and have a pot luck dinner coming up later this week, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and smoke some butts. I found two monster butts at BJ's the other day. They weigh a little over 10 lbs each!







One was rubbed with Jeff's rub and the other one was rubbed using a variation on Magic Dust. The one with Jeff's rub will be for the pot luck dinner. It's already gotten rave reviews in the past by a couple of the people who will be attending. I'll insert a probe after about 3 hrs and see how they're coming along then. It's going to be a long day.

I'm using hickory chunks which I found the other day at Lowes. My plan is to keep the smoker to about 250. It's supposed to hit 90

today and be mostly sunny so it should be no problem.

 

[DanMcG]

Wow that a lot of butt, Good luck!

 

[rivet]

Very nice! Twins!

 

[teacup13]

very nice looking butts... wish i could even find a 5lber around here..lol

looking forward to the updates

 

[ol' smokey]

Lookin' good Dawn. I'll be watching for the finished pics.
Also I noticed that you have a temp probe on the lower grate. What is the temp difference top to bottom, I never checked mine?
Thanks

 

[irishteabear]

There seems to be about a 20 degree difference between the top and bottom racks at this point.

 

[desertlites]

looking good dawn-those are monsters

 

[mikey]

Looking good, Dawn

The 20 degree temp difference is what I get in mine even though it's a wattburner. The water pan is an insulater. 10-15% temp difference is no biggy. Looking forward to the big finish

 

[pineywoods]

Looks like a great start!!

 

[ol' smokey]

Thanks for the info everyone.

 

[carpetride]

I like big butts!


LOL

Looks like you got a great day going.

 

[bigtrain74]

My favorite!!! Looks great Dawn!

 

[irishteabear]

It's turning into quite a day here. We lost power from about 11 am until just after 1:15 pm. I'm so glad I'm using the Brinkmann!

The monster butts are coming along nicely.



I used the thermopen at 12 and the top butt was reading 147, the bottom one was 149.

 

[bmudd14474]

Your butt looks good. Cant wait to see it finished.

 

[irishteabear]

At 2 pm the top butt reads 161, the one underneath reads 154. I feel some plateaus coming soon.

They're just chugging along too nicely right now.

 

[the dude abides]

Those are looking great!

Did you score these with a knife?

 

[irishteabear]

Thanks! Yes, I scored them with a knife before I rubbed them.

 

[the dude abides]

I thought so. I've never done that. What purpose does it serve?

 

[irishteabear]

Ok, I knew it was coming. They've both hit the plateau at 160. In fact, the one underneath dropped a degree. I'm going to wait and see how long they will remain there. I'm in no hurry as they weren't going to be eaten for dinner.

 

[mikey]

Big butts drive me nuts