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Longest FTC on Pork Butts?

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BillPinNC
BillPinNC Posts: 68
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What's the longest FTC you have done on pork butts? How long can you keep them before you need to unwrap them and reheat or put in the frig? I just took mine off the cooker (10pm) and don't need them until tomorrow afternoon! I was using an electric smoker not my egg and they got done really early so the temp gauge on this electric smoker gizmo must be wrong!!! Thanks, Bill
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  • Charlie tuna
    Charlie tuna Posts: 2,191
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    Refrigerate tonight in the same foil they finished in ---  re-heat in an oven at 300 degrees for about 90 minutes before pulling tomorrow.
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  • BOWHUNR
    BOWHUNR Posts: 1,487
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    You need to cool those as quickly as possible and reheat them tomorrow.  I have held them FTC for five hours and they are still like holding a chunk of lava, but yours ain't gonna make it till tomorrow.

    Mike

    I'm ashamed what I did for a Klondike Bar!!

    Omaha, NE
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  • Scottborasjr
    Scottborasjr Posts: 3,494
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    I totally agree with @BOWHUNR and  @Charlie tuna, I've done nearly six hours in a cooler only because I got caught up doing other things and it was still pretty hot to handle but that long is way too long.
    I raise my kids, cook and golf.  When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.
    Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. 
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  • BillPinNC
    BillPinNC Posts: 68
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    You all confirmed my thoughts, I put it in an ice chest with a bag of ice on top and one on the bottom of the butts...no room in the frig. This thing weighed 13.3 pounds from Costco, while I was prepping it fell apart so I had two hunks of meat. Thought it would take 20/24 hours at 230, it finished in ten! Took a small piece to sample and it tasted good.
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  • Solson005
    Solson005 Posts: 1,911
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    Here is some good info the Naked Whiz has on Cooler Holding Times
    Large & Small BGE, CGW Two-Tier Swing Rack for BOTH EGGS, Spider for the Wok, eggCARTen & and Cedar Pergola my Eggs call home in Edmond, OK. 
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  • BillPinNC
    BillPinNC Posts: 68
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    BTW- thanks for the comments! Bill
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