Not a better way to break in a new smoker than with a brisket for New Year’s Eve. In my case brisket chunks #4, and two #3.8.
Started smoker about 5am meat on at 6 was the plan. All was going great till I put the #4 chunk on the rack. No sooner on the rack and the rack fell onto my water pan. You can imagine what happened.
At this point I was worried about my element. Fortunately all seemed ok.
After the inconvenience it took sometime to reheat to my set temp of 225o about 3hrs. All in all things went as planned. Meat temp came to 170o. I wrapped them individually then increased temp to 230o. About 8 hrs to get this completed.
Started smoker about 5am meat on at 6 was the plan. All was going great till I put the #4 chunk on the rack. No sooner on the rack and the rack fell onto my water pan. You can imagine what happened.
At this point I was worried about my element. Fortunately all seemed ok.
After the inconvenience it took sometime to reheat to my set temp of 225o about 3hrs. All in all things went as planned. Meat temp came to 170o. I wrapped them individually then increased temp to 230o. About 8 hrs to get this completed.