Finishing up 1st all nighter..

sloo50

I fired up the Egg last night around 7:30.  Filled my charcoal up to the top of the bowl with Royal Oak red bag.  The Egg was holding steady at 255 degrees so I tossed on 2, 7.5 lb boneless butts @ 8:15.  


The weather was not ideal, but wasn't going to stop me! 


According to my Maverick, I was holding steady at 240 at the grate, so I went to bed around midnight and hoped for the best.  
At 6:30 am the grill temp had dropped to 200..  Pork was @ 169 degrees.  I opened up the bottom vent and the temp crawled to 205 and quit.  I opened the lid, pulled the grate and pork off, removed plate setter, and noticed I was out of fuel.
The majority of my charcoal is this size:


So, I added more charcoal, wrapped the Pork in foil and and put them back on the Egg, indirect @ 330. Within an hour the Pork was at 190.  Two hrs. later I pulled it @ 203 degrees.  

Here are the butts @ 6:30 this morning 


Here after relighting the fire


I have the butts in the cooler now.  I am hoping that I didn't ruin the pork when the temp dropped overnight.  
Any advice, or helpful hints regarding my cook would be greatly appreciated!  

leo123

I used royal oak a couple of times. I find that it does burn faster than other brands. I get mine from either Rona or Costco in Canada. Rona has Maple leaf and Costco has Basques

theyolksonyou

The reason you ran out is you filled the top of the bowl.  On long cooks, don't be shy with the lump. I fill it all the way to the top of the fire ring. Almost touching the platesetter. Is that a large?  You should be able to go close to 20 hrs or more depending on lump. 

They look really good. Nice bark!  Good eats ahead.   

grege345

You can never have to much lump in an egg.  If you think it's full add more

Terrebandit

You'll be okay. 

sloo50

Final Product.  Enjoyed by all 

theyolksonyou

Way to go!

henapple

@sloo50 ...where are you located? 

DoubleEgger

I filled my XL to top of the fire bowl with Rockwood and cooked a brisket for 18 hours. After cool down and cleaning today, there's still half of the lump left! I could never do that with BGE lump. Lump matters

texaswig

I buy RO most times at Walmart I don't have to drive out of the way. It's open 24/7. It's half the price as everything else. 

sloo50

henapple said:

@sloo50 ...where are you located? 

Chesapeake Virginia 

sloo50

theyolksonyou said:

The reason you ran out is you filled the top of the bowl.  On long cooks, don't be shy with the lump. I fill it all the way to the top of the fire ring. Almost touching the platesetter. Is that a large?  You should be able to go close to 20 hrs or more depending on lump. 

They look really good. Nice bark!  Good eats ahead.   

Got it! Need crap load more lump! 

I will not make that mistake again, I can assure you!  Thanks!!

EagleIII

@sloo50....Looks like you have the message by now, but I agree with all those that say "On a long cook(overnight), fill it up to the top of the Fire Ring".  I am not an old-timer at this by any stretch, and in fact on my first overnighter with a Butt, I did exactly what you did - ran out of lump, foiled, relit, and tossed 'em back on and all was well.  So, now that I am older and wiser, on a low and slow/overnight cook, I fill the lump up to almost touching the Platesetter.  That will never fail you and as others have also said "you can never have too much lump in an Egg".  Worse comes to worse, you have lump left in your Egg when your done - consider it a preload of lump for the next cook!