Large Butt cook

Wood122565

I've seen some pictures of large cooks where the meat is stacked on top of each other.  Haven't seen any butts. I will need to be cooking 35-40 lbs at once on a large egg.

Chris8938

You may be able to get all the meat on the grid, especially if you are able to tier your grids.  Otherwise, go turbo and do two batches without any problems.  Get them both done ahead of time and then reheat as needed.

kl8ton

Two butts at 7.5 lbs each and a 15lb brisket.  I think @dldawes1  has put more on at once for one of his overnight church cooks.  

Wood122565

This Saturday into Sunday I finally did my large butt cook. .  Reading through a lot of posts I was able to determine how much I would possible be able to cook at once and the amount of time of rest that would be safe without reheating. Was able to get 40 lbs. on my LBGE.  Took about 16 hours @ 250 - 275.  Started the egg and set my temp to 250 and held for about 45 minutes and set out my meat for about an hour to get to room temp.  Had 6 butts so I put the lager 3 on bottom and the 3 smaller on top in a triangle. Only fall back was the I should have rotated the meat somewhere around 155 -160.  The bottoms of the bottom group was over cooked.  After cook, I triple wrapped each butt in HD aluminum foil then wrapped in a dryer warmed towel and stacked in a cooler for about 6 hours that I had lined with a dryer warmer towel.  Pulled 3 and chopped 3 no problem.  Photo above was about 5 hours into the cook, forgot photo at the end of the cook.  Thanks for the ones who post on this forum.  Makes rookie Eggheads like me look like great cooks.