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XXL and Holding Temp

Doc_Eggerton
Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
edited September 2019 in EggHead Forum
OK, started some ribs about 1200 yesterday.  After 30-40 minutes prep held at 250 for five hours.  Thought I shut it down, but I got the bottom vent closed and the daisy wheel just the barest crack open.  When to clean up at 1430 and it is sitting at 180, jut cranking along.  Can't see how much lump was used, the grid and PS are too heavy to casually lift and look.

XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

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  • TexanOfTheNorth
    TexanOfTheNorth Posts: 3,951
    Is this a question or just a comment?
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    Well, "spa-Peggy" is kind of like spaghetti. I'm not sure what Peggy does different, if anything. But it's the one dish she's kind of made her own.
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    Wow! So it has basically been running for 26 1/2 hours? 

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

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  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
    TexanOfTheNorth said:
    Is this a question or just a comment?
    A comment. Thought I had shut it down last night, but left a sliver of the daisy wheel open.  I has been holding a low temp unattended for over 24 hours.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

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  • kl8ton
    kl8ton Posts: 6,546
    Doc_Eggerton said:
    TexanOfTheNorth said:
    Is this a question or just a comment?
    A comment. Thought I had shut it down last night, but left a sliver of the daisy wheel open.  I has been holding a low temp unattended for over 24 hours.
    But if I were to intentionally try that, I wouldn't be able to hold that low temp for that long!   :)
    Large, Medium, MiniMax, 36" Blackstone
    Grand Rapids MI
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  • GoooDawgs
    GoooDawgs Posts: 1,060
    That's awesome.  Does that thing take 40 pounds of lump? 
    Milton, GA 
    XL BGE & FB300
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  • TexanOfTheNorth
    TexanOfTheNorth Posts: 3,951
    Doc_Eggerton said:
    TexanOfTheNorth said:
    Is this a question or just a comment?
    A comment. Thought I had shut it down last night, but left a sliver of the daisy wheel open.  I has been holding a low temp unattended for over 24 hours.
    Ahhh. I had the time line wrong. That's pretty amazing. As @kl8ton said though, just try doing that sometime and see what happens  :)  
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    Well, "spa-Peggy" is kind of like spaghetti. I'm not sure what Peggy does different, if anything. But it's the one dish she's kind of made her own.
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  • Doc_Eggerton
    Doc_Eggerton Posts: 5,321
    GoooDawgs said:
    That's awesome.  Does that thing take 40 pounds of lump? 
    If the firebox is empty it will take a whole bag of lump.

    XXL #82 out of the first 100, XLGE X 2, LBGE (gave this one to daughter 1.0) , MBGE (now in the hands of iloveagoodyoke daughter 2.0) and lots of toys

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  • Mattman3969
    Mattman3969 Posts: 10,458
    That thing sounds like the perfect machine to do the @lousubcab annual chili pepper cook down.  Lol.  I got lucky when I tried it on the large and did 27hrs at 180°.   No way it would’ve held those temps if it was something i actually cared about.  

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  • cookingdude555
    cookingdude555 Posts: 3,196
    GoooDawgs said:
    That's awesome.  Does that thing take 40 pounds of lump? 
    I keep an XL kick ash basket in mine. I fill it just like an XL. As crazy as it sounds, it doesn’t seem to consume a lot more lump than the XL. But I’ve only run it four times. 
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