Stoker saved my brisket

Thanks Tim. Normally, I'll soak the beans overnight before cooking them. But, I didn't decide to cook them until around noon on Sunday. I learned from my wife that you can bring the dry beans up to a boil, boil them for 5 minutes, then let cool down, and that does just as good as soaking overnight.

On these, I put in some chopped onions and garlic, a can of Rotels Tomatoes and Chiles, and Pinto bean seasoning. For the cooking, I cooked them direct at 300° on the Medium. They were good.

I didn't cook it raised, so the grid was about 6 inches from the lump. I cooked it at about 300° until the beans were just about done, and then shut off the vents for the Egg to cool down some.

I kept the lid off for a while to try to get some smoke flavor in the beans, but then I cooked with the lid on too. For me, I need to check the beans fairly often, so that the juice doesn't steam off. I also had to add some water once.

I like the juice as much, or more, than the beans itself.

Here's the spice I used. It's a local brand. I'm sure your area has brands too.

Well, maybe a poor choice of words. I'm famous for that.

By being able to constantly monitor the progress on my computer, I was able to adjust the temperature and have the brisket ready for kickoff. The Stokerlog program was estimating a finish time of midnight, which would have been a loss for the Superbowl meal.

Yeah, that would be real nice, but it's not there to my knowledge.

It does allow for 4 timers and a temperature set at each time period.

Mark,

I've only had my Stoker for a couple of weeks and I haven't cooked 2 meats yet, but I will be doing that this Saturday.

On this brisket, I put both probes into the brisket, about 3 inches apart, to see how close they'd track together. I think they did very well. Never more than 2 or 3 degrees different.

Since I have two eggs, I also got two fans and two pit probes, which I haven't used yet either.

It was a little disappointing to realize that if you have two Eggs going, you can't monitor the meat on each one. The reason is that the Stoker box has 5 ports. The fan takes 1, the pit sensor takes 1, and the meat probe takes 1. So with 2 Eggs, 2 fans, 2 pit probes, and 1 meat fills up your ports.

Duh. I didn't even know about that.

Another $25 out of pocket. Sigh ...........

Hey thanks !!!!!!

Thanks. I'm a big fan of beans ... until the next day. :laugh:

Thanks, Kent !