Cook time for 2 8# butts

friscotex · July 2010

Have 2 8# butts that I would like to take off at 11am tomorrow for early afternoon eat. I realize that it's not an exact science on cook time, but what would your advice on cook time / temp to ensure that I get as close as possible to ideal pull time?

I'm thinking about putting them on at 11pm tonight at 240, and then adjusting temp up if necessary in the AM.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Celtic Wolf · July 2010

1-2 hours per pound. Some butts will cook fast (1 hour per pound) others won't (2 hours per pound), but they will average around 1.5 hours per pound.

Plan that cook with a couple hours to spare.

Grandpas Grub · July 2010

As long as the pieces are not touching the consensus is about 1.5 to 2 hrs per pound at 250° dome. Mine seem to take 1 to 1.5 hrs per pound at 250° dome.

If wrapped well in a towles, I use some 2 yards of stadium fleece (60" wide) I bought from a fabric store, it will stay hot from 4 to 5 hours.

GG

friscotex · July 2010

Thanks. If I plan 1.5 hour / pound, is that for a single 8 lbs butt, or the combination of the two (16 lb).

Grandpas Grub · July 2010

As long as the pieces are not touching (about 1" between) treat all the pieces as the largest one.

If pieces are touching then use the combined weight.

GG

Celtic Wolf · July 2010

Even if they are touching they will separate as the shrink from cooking..

I wish people would stop this myth..

Grandpas Grub · July 2010

"Even if they are touching they will separate as the shrink from cooking.. "

You are surly the one with the experience with butt & egg cooking.

If the grid is crowded, and the butts are touching each other firmly, is there enough shrinkage early enough in the cook to cook as a single cut at about 1.5 hrs/pound of one butt?

Not very often will I cook more than one at a time. When I did cook several I had the room to keep them separated.

GG

Rolling Egg · July 2010

I hope that is a myth!! It seems to screw me up a little every time I crowd my large. I have to do a wedding in September and they want 100 pounds. I have two larges and a medium. They might be crowded!

Celtic Wolf · July 2010

Well lets just put it an easy way. I typically cook 48+ pounds of pork on my EGGS when I do the troop cooks. I guarantee it does not take 96+ hours. I am pulling stuff off with-in 12 ours of putting them on.

Celtic Wolf · July 2010

One if you don't have TJV's adjustable rig get them. They will allow you to put 3 butts per tier.

I suggest you get a guru for each egg. Let it keep your EGGS up to temp :-)

poolguy · July 2010

I cooked 2 7.5 lbers last night. I put on a 11 pm @ 250 and pulled off at 11 am @ internal temp 200. wrapped and pulled 2.5 hrs later.still to hot to touch. boy did they taste good.follow naked whiz comments on loading the egg. my temp never dropped and I baked my grandson a bday cake afterward without adding any more lump.
Gotta Luv It.

Good Luck

Rolling Egg · July 2010

I have the rigs and Guru. How do you get three per tier. I just did four last night, two on each tier, and they took up all the grid space. Especially the lower grid. They were 8 pounders.

Celtic Wolf · July 2010

Like this :woohoo:

Bacchus · July 2010

@250....11-14 hours, touching or not.

poolguy · July 2010

mine were touching, but they were pulled away when I checked @ 6 am this morning.

Rolling Egg · July 2010

Is that a 2 inch fire ring or standard?

Celtic Wolf · July 2010

Standard

Cook time for 2 8# butts

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