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6lb Pork Butt - Large Green Egg....Help!?

aturco
aturco Posts: 55
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Hi all -
I am not having any luck w/ my egg getting to the temps I am trying to get to. I had the egg stablized @ 250 for about a half hour and then put the meat on, since then i cant get it over 200. 
Put the 6# butt on @ 7:30 am...have not been able to get the egg over 200 degrees. Anyone out there have any suggestions? 
It seems to be stablized at 200, I have the damper at the bottom open about 3-4 inches and the daisy wheel open so the ovals are all showing. I would expect w/ those settings the egg would be roaring. No such luck at least per the dome thermo. The meat itself looks dry. 
Anyone have any suggestions? Pull it and put it in the oven?
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  • jshillin
    jshillin Posts: 42
    edited July 2014
    Slide the daisy wheel open about 1/4"-1/2" and it should start heating up for you.
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,866
    Do you know if you have any lump burning?  Sounds like you lost your fire somehow.  No need for the oven-pull the guts and get the fire restarted then dial up the temp on the calibrated (key word) dome thermo to around 300*F and you will be finished in around 5-6 hours tops.  YMMV-  Happy Birthday USA!
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  • HDumptyEsq
    HDumptyEsq Posts: 1,095
    At 250 then loading the (cold?) butt it'll take its time to get back. Patience will be rewarded if you don't fool with those vents all day. Otherwise the temp will be up and down like a whore's drawers!

    Tony in Brentwood, TN.

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  • Tjcoley
    Tjcoley Posts: 3,551
    Does the Egg feel hot?  With both vents wide open like that you may have spun the thermo all the way around and back to 200.  If Egg is not real hot  on the outside, agree your fire may have gone out.
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  • aturco
    aturco Posts: 55
    Re-calibrated the thermo...it was def out of whack. barely have the vents open now...egg is hot and is lump is def burning. Hopefully the re-cal was the problem. I think I may need a need a new thermo,. I re-caled it last time i used and it seemed to be out of whack again. 

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