Brisket - overnight

ChokeOnSmoke · February 2013

Picked up a 7.5lb flat and decided to put in on Saturday night for Sunday lunch.

Got the egg stabilized at 235 grid, hooked up the DigiQ DX, kept an eye on it for maybe a 1/2 hour and went to bed.

Got up at 6:00am Sunday to feed and let out the dogs. Checked the DigiQ, holding rock solid at 235. When back to bed.

Got up and 10:30 and went out to check on things. Egg temp of 150!! What the @#$% is going on! Fan not running!

Internal brisket temp is 155. Abort the egg, wrap in foil and set oven for 300. After the DigiQ was in the house for about 10 minutes, plugged it in and it's working fine. When I tipped the fan to the side, water poured out. It was frozen!

After maybe an hour, brisket hit 195. Pulled it out and gave it the "probe test". Still pretty tough. Back into the oven until an internal of 205. Test it with the probe again. Nice. Time to slice... Oh, did I mention it was a little chilly last night, see picture below...

SmokinDAWG82 · February 2013

Looks like the final result was good,

ChokeOnSmoke · February 2013

SmokinDAWG82 said:

Looks like the final result was good,

Turned out REALLY good, one of the better I can remember. Proves there's many paths to a good brisket.

MrCookingNurse · February 2013

Looks tasty man!

Ragtop99 · February 2013

Good recovery.

Is the fan toast, or did it survive the freeze?

Central_Bama_Egger · February 2013

Man. Looks really good.

YEMTrey · February 2013

Way to adjust on the fly and salvage the cook. Looks great.

ChokeOnSmoke · February 2013

Ragtop99 said:

Good recovery.

Is the fan toast, or did it survive the freeze?

Fan seems to be OK. Brought it inside, let the ice melt, drained out the water, started it up and it worked just fine.

loveTheEgg · February 2013

ChokeOnSmoke said:

Ragtop99 said:

Good recovery.

Is the fan toast, or did it survive the freeze?

Fan seems to be OK. Brought it inside, let the ice melt, drained out the water, started it up and it worked just fine.

how did the water get in the fan?

Plano_JJ · February 2013

Dude, that'll eat.

caliking · February 2013

Nice save. That brisket looks great. What therm are you using? Does it not have a low temp alarm?

Dyal_SC · February 2013

Nice save! Looks delicious!

ChokeOnSmoke · February 2013

caliking said:

Nice save. That brisket looks great. What therm are you using? Does it not have a low temp alarm?

The digiQ does have an alarm (if the temp deviates too far from the set temp) but I was sleeping as it beeped outside...

Solson005 · February 2013

Nice save indeed! =D>

hoofaloos · February 2013

I turn my fan so that the large flat portion of the device is on the sides. Maybe that would help water to not sit inside?

troutgeek · February 2013

Wow. Good point. I always get moisture in the fan, and this never occurred to me of happening. It was -17 in Dalton this morning, and -1 in Markesan. I bet it could have frozen right up over here.

ChokeOnSmoke · February 2013

hoofaloos said:

I turn my fan so that the large flat portion of the device is on the sides. Maybe that would help water to not sit inside?

Yup, makes sense. Moisture ends up in there every time I use it but this is the first time it froze up. When my fan is in place, it actually angles downward which I'm sure makes it easy for the moisture to funnel down where the fan spins. Next time I plan to turn it sideways (or even upside down with the fan above).

Brisket - overnight

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