I might be the dumbest egghead ever....

Spydermunky

So I decided last night that was going to do a brisket today for some family coming into town, so I got one trimmed up this morning and set up the egg with my CyberQ since I was going to be out of the house all day.  I got my temp to 250 and threw the brisket on and went about my merry way....

Until about 30 minutes into the cook when my high temp alarm went off.  I rushed back to the house to see what the hell was going on.  In hundreds of cooks with my setup I'd never had the high temp alarm go off for the Egg...

I've been fighting some serious alignment issues for the past few weeks so I immediately assumed I had a gap somewhere between the dome and the base, but couldn't find any visible separation.  I kept fighting it for hours, and at one point my temp was nearing 400...  I'd wrapped and bathed the brisket when it hit 160, so I knew I'd at least have something edible, but I was beyond annoyed about why my temp was so out of control.  Once my brisket hit 200 I pulled it off the egg and started trying to figure out what happened.  Again, I couldn't fin anything.  It was like there was an invisible hole somewhere...

And then I pulled my pit viper fan off......  I'd forgotten to close down the baffle.  It had been wide open the whole cook.  I felt like an absolute idiot, and my sister and her kids probably thought I was possessed when the string of cuss words came out of my mouth once I saw it.

On the bright side, the brisket was saved by the bath and wrap, and I took advantage of the high temp to throw some cornbread on while it rested.

JohnInCarolina

We had a thread here some time ago collecting all the dumb things people had managed to do with their eggs.  Trust me, yours doesn't even crack the top ten.

Glad the brisket survived!