1st Over Nighter Tonite......

USDA Prime

..... wish me luck. Well, with a fairly new EGG, I've got ribs, pork chops, ribeyes, burgers, lamb chops, ahi tuna and chickens added to the resume. Tonight will be the first butt on the EGG. Done 'em b4 but not on an EGG. Been using BGE lump and opened a bag of Wicked Good and OH MY the difference!!!! Anyway, will post a report tomorrow..... sweet dreams.

Firetruck

Good luck, get some sleep yourself. If you are not using anything to keep the temps. steady, you will probably need to check it once during the night.

Hoss

Hope the knee is recouping.You doin OK?

USDA Prime

Knee is fine. Rehab was awful!! Thanks for asking.

Firetruck

Yea I'm OK, just sittin around the house, thanks for asking

Little Steven

USDA Prime,

Make sure your egg is clean of ash and put the big pieces of lump in the bottom. Light the lump in three or four places and you will be good to go. Set the temp for 250*

Steve

WokOnMedium

And may the BBQ Gods smile upon your butt!!!!!!! Good Luck!

Nucman

I never used "Wicked Good". What's your opinion?

Thanks,

USDA Prime

H-U-G-E lumps - great for long, low temp burns. Little pieces seem to be just fine for quicker, hotter cooks. Let you know more in the AM.

WokOnMedium

How does someone in Iowa get ahold of some Wicked Good Lump?

USDA Prime

If you live in Iowa, either this is a loaded question or you are most fortunate!!

HAWGEYES BBQ
1313 S.W. Ordnance Road
Ankeny, Iowa 50023
(877) 841-7192 (Toll free)
http://www.hawgeyesbbq.com/

FARVER TRUE VALUE HARDWARE
2617 1st Avenue East
Newton, Iowa 50208
(641) 791-9996
Scot Farver
www.farvertruevalue.com

UPDATE! - Butt has been on for 1 hour 15 munites. Meat Temp 72
Egg Temp steady at 221

Firetruck

If 221 is your dome temp, you better kick it up some to around 250.

USDA Prime

221 is the Maverick temp at the grill with a platesetter. Think it needs a bump up?

Canugghead

what's the temp on dome therm? it should be around 250. make sure the dome therm probe is not touching the butt. also, the maverick probe at grill should not be directly in the path of the hot air coming up around the platesetter.

USDA Prime

Thanks. The probe wires were placed to exit over one of the platesetter legs. Got up this AM and Egg was at 170. A little stoking and blowing and we're back on the program. Meat temp is 134. There will be pork! A DigiQ II is in my future.

USDA Prime

20 hours later, a beautiful butt was removed from the Egg. Pulled it off at 195 i.t. Ramped the Egg temp up to 275-290 for the last 4 hours. Nice bark and ring. Used 2 chunks each of pecan, hickory and maple. CYM, Byron's and mopped every 2-3 hours. EGG-celent!