Smokin' a Butt

[hyyal]

Got a nice bone-in 5 pounder at Sam's Club yesterday. Rubbed it and put it on at 6:45 AM.

So far, I've had a rain shower run through at 1 hour into the smoke & one of my thermo's went down. I use 2 digital (one for the meat & one for smoker temp as well as 2 analog mounted at both ends of the horizontal).

The thermo was reading the smoker temp...sitting nicely at 230* when it jumped to over 300 then back down to 88 - 89*.  Battery change didn't fix it, nor did swapping probes.

So...now I've got 1 in the meat and the 2 analogs. I've been doing this long enough to know the approximate temp the analogs are telling me (I hope!!).

Rubbed meat -

 

[mdboatbum]

Maybe it shorted out on the grate? But I don't know if that'd fry the main unit. Anyway, sounds like you've got it under control. Can't wait to see more pics as it progresses. Good luck!

 

[raptor700]

Not sure what's going on with the probe.

I haven't had that problem (Yet!)

   

 

[SmokinAl]

Was the main unit in the rain. That may be the problem. You may be able to dry it out & get it working again. Anyhow it seems like you have everything under control. Good luck!

 

[meateater]

Looking good so far. I keep a couple analog on hand for just those moments. 

 

[hyyal]

Overcoming the problems of the day...it turned out great!

Ready to wrap-

Pulled the bone-

MMMMM Ready to eat -

Finished with home made pepper vinegar.  Yup - it was goooood!

 

[jjwdiver]

sure looks good! Nice job...satisfying when you can overcome something that would "shut down" some smokes or smokers.

 

[venture]

My guess would be that was a Maverick meat probe.  The only ones I have ever had go bad on me. 

The meat turned out.  Nice recovery!

Good luck and good smoking.