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cooked two butts.why did this happen

tcampbell
tcampbell Posts: 771
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Two butts came packed together and same size.Got large egg going and stable at 235 put both on same egg.Cooked all night one was ready in 14 hours and the other 17 hours.Cooked both to I T of 200.Why so much difference.
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  • hapster
    hapster Posts: 7,503
    Each one is an individual and should be treated as such...


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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    This has never happened to me, but I have heard many folks say that each piece of meat will have a mind of its own.  I have had one finish a little earlier but only by about 1 hour max. 

    Which one finished first?  If I had to guess I would say the one on the left.  it looks a little smaller, and it is also hanging over the plate setter more because the one on the right has the leg blocking it. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • johnkitchens
    johnkitchens Posts: 5,234
    I am wondering if placement on the grid made the difference. More heat going to one than the other? I don't know. Just a thought. 

    Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's
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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
    Fat content. One had more fat than the other. The stall on the fatty one was likely longer. 
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  • Zmokin
    Zmokin Posts: 1,938
    My first thought, if they both weigh the exact same, but are a different shape, the one with the more surface area will cook faster.  A perfect sphere will have the least surface area to volume ratio.  As meat is rarely spherical, a perfect cube will have less surface area than a rectangular shaped slab.  Rarely do you have a perfect cube, but by now I hope you see my point.  The one that is closer to being like a cube vs. the one that is longer and thinner, the more cubicle shaped one should take longer to cook if everything else is equal.

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  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    Thanks
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  • EggPerfection
    EggPerfection Posts: 124
    Small variations become larger differences over longer periods of time.  I support the plate setter theory as a 4/5 degree difference is easy to explain given the airflow.  I will remember this next time I double down on butts.

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  • Miked125
    Miked125 Posts: 481
    Did the one on the left take longer? It seems thicker and the one on the right has more surface area and is thinner
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  • tcampbell
    tcampbell Posts: 771
    The one on left got done 3 hours before one on right.
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200
    One was raised in a happy, loving and nurturing environment. The other was neglected and abused and made fun of. Or maybe it was just fat content and/or shape.

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  • stompbox
    stompbox Posts: 729
    hot spot location
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,891
    Odds of those butts starting out as identical twins is quite slim...thus the difference as noted above.
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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