To pull or not to pull before going in the ice chest

tmEGGer

I am rather new to egging and love it. However, I have ruined a couple butts while learning. [p]I have 14# of butt on my Lg BGE right now, mostly following Elder Ward's post. The butt will likely be done several hours before dinner time so I plan to put the butt in an ice chest to rest before the fest. [p]Assuming all goes well through the night and I successfully reach final temp, do I pull the meat prior to putting in an ice chest or wait until serving?[p]NutmEGGer

Steve-B

NutmEGGer,[p]Don't pull...[p]Wrap in some HD Aluminum foil, then a couple of old towels. Then I fill the rest of the cooler with crumpled newspaper. I usally put a couple of crumpled pieces in the bottom also. If the cooler is cold bring it up to at least room temp. [p]BTW... I like your nickname.[p]Steve-B

The Naked Whiz

NutmEGGer,
Steve is right. Don't pull. When you take the butts out of the cooler, they will still be too hot to handle bare handed and will pull just fine.[p]TNW

RRP

NutmEGGer, I agree with both of the above, yet since my cooler of choice is an old Coleman Personal 16 which seals down pretty well, so instead of newspaper I have several old towels which wifey gave me and I wrap my foil wrapped butts quite tightly and pack the inside so there is no dead air space. In doing so I also have learned that in that controlled enviroment that the butts continue to cook internally even without more heat so I pull mine at 197° internal temp if I know it will be resting for a few hours. Once I went 5 hours in the cooler and when I unwrapped my butts they still were at hand burning temps.

RRP

when I said "I pull mine at 197°" I meant I pull them off the BGE and leave the butt in tact...I don't "pull" them then.
PS Guess my being married to a recently retired English teacher for 38 years should have made my proof reading skills better!