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My First TOTAL failure with the egg!
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cdees_1993
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If any of you have seen any of my posts, you know I love my egg more than any grill ever and still do! However, I decided to go away from my tried and true method of low and slow on my boston butts yesterday and decided to try what I had read on here just for something different. I went 300 indirect and had planned on going straight to 200 IT. Well not exactly sure where it went wrong, but everything was going fine, I was at about 185 IT and went to sleep with the remote temp guage by the bed with alarm set. I woke up at 2 am and realized alarm never went off! Jumped out of bed like a crazy person and grabbed the temp guage. I was like oh crap what has happened! The temp guage is now reading 145 IT. I run outside and the grill has completely cooled off. I took it off and started to pull it only to realize the meat must have gone bad while sitting there. There now lies a 10lber in my outside dumpster. Uggggghhhh. Never again will I try anything but low and slow. It just works.
Don't get me wrong, this was not the eggs fault. I guess I just ran out of fuel. I am going to check when I get off work to see what happened.
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Sounds like the fire must have gone out shortly after you went to sleep. When you took the meat off the grill was there any lump left or was it all ashes? If it was all ashes then you must not have put enough lump in. If there were ashes left then you may have clogged your grate. Either way, I would try my next higher temp butt so it cooks while you are awake. I'll bet some animals will be visiting your dumpster tonight. Your loss is their gain!BTW.. It was not a total failure, it was a successful learning experience.XL BGE; Medium BGE; L BGE
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You didn't have to throw your meat away...it was still good. Next time, fire that bad boy back up and get it up to temp. This happens all the time and nobody has complained of food poisoning. Besides...145 IT is well in the safe zone.Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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cooked a 8lb butt last weekend for 7 hours @325-350 to IT 200 on one load of lump. I filled it with only fresh lump to the fire ring. there was some charcoal left when i was finished but not alot.dont give up..... (or fall asleep).Woodstock, GA
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Some remotes also have some settings where you can associate alarms with both high and low temp warnings on the food probe and the same at the pit temp too...might give a little more flexibility / warning if something is going south
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+1 with cazzy, 145F is still in safe zone. Did you measure the meat internal temp? 'gone bad' in what way?canuckland
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Dare I ask the brand of lump?Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN
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cdees_1993 said:If any of you have seen any of my posts, you know I love my egg more than any grill ever and still do! However, I decided to go away from my tried and true method of low and slow on my boston butts yesterday and decided to try what I had read on here just for something different. I went 300 indirect and had planned on going straight to 200 IT. Well not exactly sure where it went wrong, but everything was going fine, I was at about 185 IT and went to sleep with the remote temp guage by the bed with alarm set. I woke up at 2 am and realized alarm never went off! Jumped out of bed like a crazy person and grabbed the temp guage. I was like oh crap what has happened! The temp guage is now reading 145 IT. I run outside and the grill has completely cooled off. I took it off and started to pull it only to realize the meat must have gone bad while sitting there. There now lies a 10lber in my outside dumpster. Uggggghhhh. Never again will I try anything but low and slow. It just works. Don't get me wrong, this was not the eggs fault. I guess I just ran out of fuel. I am going to check when I get off work to see what happened.
Northern Colorado Egghead since 2012.
XL BGE and a KBQ.
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I think I might have just brought it in, put in the oven and finished the cook. Or, since it was at 185, just slice it up.Dan, Columbia,Mo.
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Was your Egg completely cleaned out, including ash area, before filling with Lump for this particular cook? Any cook where I may leave my Egg unattended for a period of time ... means I start with a completely clean & vacuumed out Egg to guarantee I'm getting the best possible air flow. Just curious.My PitMaster IQ120 FREAKIN ROCKS!!!!!!! Current BGE arsenal: XL & MiniMax
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It was full to top of fire ring and is mainly ash now. Weird thing is I had vacuumed it out prior to loading it. Oh well live and learn. Just hard to beat low and slow. Oh someone asked the brand. I had picked up the Kroger brand of lump and started fresh. I had ran out of my normal lump. The reason I said I was bad is that it just didn't smell good like it should when it comes off and it was very tough to say the least.
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cdees_1993 said:It was full to top of fire ring and is mainly ash now. Weird thing is I had vacuumed it out prior to loading it. Oh well live and learn. Just hard to beat low and slow. Oh someone asked the brand. I had picked up the Kroger brand of lump and started fresh. I had ran out of my normal lump. The reason I said I was bad is that it just didn't smell good like it should when it comes off and it was very tough to say the least.Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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I think you are probably right that it just needed more cooking. I was just serving it to my faculty and couldn't make my self take that chance. If for me would have totally put in oven and tried it.
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cdees_1993 said:I think you are probably right that it just needed more cooking. I was just serving it to my faculty and couldn't make my self take that chance. If for me would have totally put in oven and tried it.Just a hack that makes some $hitty BBQ....
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Go grab that bad boy outta' the dumpster and fire the egg up... consider it a skinned knee with a little dirt rubbed on it. Get back in the game...
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