Brisket and Butts

4Runner

Another timing question.  Headed up the road to Florence, SC from Columbia,SC for lunch on Sat. About a 1 hour 15 min drive.   My goal is to pull the meat off the Egg Sat am, wrap and place in the cooler and then unwrap and slice/ pull in Florence,for lunch around noon.   I have 1 14# brisket (SRF) and 2 7.5# butts.  I'm using a Stoker so total temp control.  Was thinking starting at 225 then bumping to 250 Fri night.   Thoughts/advice on when to put on Egg?  Should I start the brisket first and the throw on the butts later?  AR so no worries on capacity.  Appreciate the input.   

Black_Badger

I usually figure about 1 hr per pound for a butt and 1.5 for a brisket, but those are just ballparks. I'd say if anything err on the side of being done a little too early, it's always easy to let them hang out FTC for a bit longer if needed, but speeding things up at the last minute often goes sideways. Just my opinion.

Cheers -
B_B

Chubbs

So leaving house at 10am ish? If so, I would put it on a little higher temp at like 8 or 9pm and wake up at 6-7 and reevaluate. By reevaluate I mean raise temp or foil to punch home. Then wrap and enjoy.

4Runner

Yes, leaving around 10. I was think about starting around 4pm to error on on the early side and then bumping to 250 around 10pm or so. I am concerned about the SRF cooking so fast yet being almost twice the size of the butt. My experience with both SRF briskets and butts is they smoke at a rate more than 1.5 hours /# at 225 and a little short of that at 250. Just never mixed like this with a hard end time. Love this stuff! This why we Egg. Right? High pressure with expensive cuts of meat and impatient family members in the balance...this is a dang TV show. Lol

Chubbs

Haha. I have never done SRF so use your experience and I am sure you will be fine. You can always speed up but hard to slow down. Just saying. Good luck man. Sounds like a good time

4Runner

Where are you in Columbia @Chubbs  ?

Chubbs

4Runner said:

Where are you in Columbia @Chubbs  ?

Forest Acres. You?

DoubleEgger

I used to live in Elgin. Good times

4Runner

 I used to live in Forest Acres. Moved to the Hamptons behind the VA 15 years ago.    Great city.  

erblove

Sorry for the late post...but do you guys know if any of the Columbia eggers ever get together? BTW I'm over by Lake Murray

4Runner

@erblove - Missed this from 6 weeks ago.  lol.   I believe Jack Oliver has a cook every not and then.  Some members posted it a while back....I couldn't make it.  Other than that, I don't know of anything in the greater Columbia area.