"egg-centric weekend" (subtitled "O, how the ladies loved my butt")

stike

no point in particular here other than to sing the praises of the BGE (to what promises to be an audience of converts anyway).[p]Part I:
Did a 4 pound turkey breast this saturday, for dinner. I cannot do it justice in a description, other than to say, you MUST do turkey sometime soon. The wife took one bite and said "oooooo, T H A N K S G I V I N G..."[p]Part II:
Sunday I was having a buddy and his wife over for a little BBQ 'competition'. Saturday into Sunday I did my first overnight lo-and-slo on an 8.5# butt, which went 20 hours (overy hickory and some small amount of oak). As it was coming up on 195 or so internal somewhere around 2pm), my buddy called and said his brisket (also on an egg) isn't ready, but that he's tossing it into a cooler and heading over. When he got there, my shoulder hit 200, and we pulled it (both from the egg, and literally). While the lid was up, we tossed on his brisket (which had cooled a bit). We ate the pork, some Boston Baked Beans, salads, etc. and waited on the brisket. It went another 6 hours.[p]When we took the brisket off, the egg had been going for 26 hours (+ an hour getting the fire settled at the beginning) on one load of lump. When we two clowns saw how much lump was left, we were in shock. The egg could have kept right on chugging along for at least a few more hours.[p]I figure, except for the down-time as I rebuilt the fire between the turkey and the shoulder, the egg had been in continuous use since 1 pm Saturday through 8 pm Sunday evening.[p]

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stike,[p]Did you put anything on the butt prior to cooking or was it straight up?[p]Doing one this weekend, looking for something different than the usual.

stike

Skwerl X,
When I first got the BGE, i was Mr. Rub. Sometimes had trouble tasting the meat...[p]Now I keep it simple. Didn't do it straight up, but keep the ingredients of the rub to about 5.[p]Basic stuff. Pepper/Paprika/garlic powder (not alot)/ etc. and the last of my previous rub. Used a veritable PANTLOAD of hickory for the smoke.[p]