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That one bad weekend ruined 3 briskets and a pork shoulder for me
Last Saturday I fired up my offset smoker at 5am for a family cookout in Nashville. By noon the temperature dropped 30 degrees and a storm rolled in, so I had to fight with a tarp and a wet firebox for hours. Then my cheapo wireless thermometer gave false readings and I ended up pulling one brisket at 145 instead of 203. That pork shoulder stalled for 5 hours and came out like shoe leather. Has anyone else had a cook go totally sideways from bad weather and bad gear at the same time?
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hugo_bennett6d ago
Man that sucks. Did that storm at least cool the beer down?
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stella_baker6d ago
oh man, i had a buddy who tried to smoke a whole turkey for thanksgiving one year and it went about like that. he got this cheap electric smoker from a pawn shop and figured it was fine. then the weather dropped to like 20 degrees and the thing couldnt keep temp. he kept opening it to check and it just kept losing heat. the turkey ended up taking like 8 hours and was still raw in the middle. he finally gave up and threw it in the oven at 400 to finish it, but by then the skin was like rubber. he said his family ate a lot of sides that year and nobody touched the turkey.
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