Smoker shut down

[charmon]

I am cooking a 12lb brisket on an electric Traeger grill. It was smoking for 6 hours at 225 degrees before I walked away. Sometime between 1:30 and 5 it shut down. When I went back out the meat was 95 degrees. Should I toss the meat or is it salvageable?

 

[SmokinAl]

Do you know what the internal meat temp was when you walked away?
Al

 

[charmon]

I did a rookie mistake and didn't take it.

 

[sprky]

Knowing what I do, as I use a traeger, I dont think it was out very long hour or so. With that said at 225 you were probity in the 100-125 range at 6 hours. Thats internal temp, your surface temp was much higher, over the 140.

 

[TNJAKE]

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[normanaj]

What Jake said.A good wireless probe with an alarm will save you a lot of frustration.