Flame Boss 200 Does Pulled Beef

Prepped the egg last night to do a pulled beef cook this morning.  Filled to the middle of the fire ring with Rockwood, added smoke wood (half dozen pieces of half used chunks from previous cooks ... oak, hickory and pecan), and lit it off.  After about 10 minutes (with the pit temp at 116 degrees), I installed the Flame Boss 200 and fired it up.  When the temp hit 200 degrees, the Smokeware cap was closed to just barely open.  In about 35 minutes smoke had disappeared and the egg was perking along at target temp, so the meat hit the grill.  A three pound English Roast was treated to a coating of salt, pepper, and Penzey's fajita spice mix. The fajita spice mix added a very nice spicy flavor to the meat ... will definitely do that again.



Played around with the Flame Boss settings so ended up cooking at 225, 250, and 275 degrees.  Took about four hours for the roast to reach 160 degrees IT. 

Pulled the roast and put it in an aluminum pan with sliced jalapeno peppers, onions, fresh tomatoes, a can of beef broth.  The Flame Boss meat probe is extra long at six inches, so it was easy to insert it through the side of the aluminum pan just below the rim, and then, add the aluminum foil cover.  Back in the egg for an additional two hours at 350 degrees brought the IT up to a steady 210 degrees.  The extra long probe was great for this application because it could stay in place when the foil top was removed.  Another 35 minutes in the egg cooked off some of the broth and firmed up the bark on the roast.



Dinner was pulled beef burritos and sides on our Sunday best china.



One last graph porn ...



With the graph it's impossible to hide it if you're peeking under the lid.  The lid was lifted at 10:02am to start the cook, at 2:02pm to pull the meat and put it in the aluminum pan, at 2:10pm to put the pan back in the egg, at 4:10pm to remove the foil, and finally at 4:45pm to end the cook.

I tightened up the air leaks at the inlet vent and that made all the difference for this cook.  Also removed the alligator clip from the pit probe and used the probe tree.  Very little overshoot after opening the lid or bumping the pit temp up.  The Flame Boss stayed within about +/- 5 degrees of target temp all day.  Neat results.