Fast help

cooking on an 08 Smokette.

Sometimes the process can be painfully, inexplicably slow. No benefit at this point to using the lower temp. Kick it back up tp 225 and pray.

what about keeping it in foil and putting it in the house oven.

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Originally posted by Cunninghams:
what about keeping it in foil and putting it in the house oven.

Thats exactly what I would do and good luck.

Once it's in foil, just crank the heat up to finish. If it's in the 180s, should be quick to get to 190

Unless it was one of those boneless butts with the fat trimmed off, I don't see the point of foiling it. A regular untrimmed whole pork butt will never know the difference between 225 and 250*.

Three things:

1) After this cook, check your therm for accuracy.
2) After you check the therm, check the smokette for accuracy.
3) Never cook just one butt at a time. The cooker works better the closer to full it gets. BBQ freezes well or makes great brunswick stew.

And a fourth BONUS item: Make sure that you're not using injected meat. A lot of the butts sold in grocery stores have "solution added" and they do weird things temp wise.

It's about 9:10 as I write this, so I hope things went well.

Guys,

It turned out unbelievable. 1st one ever and I had both neighbors asking me to put one in for them when i cook my next one. One got the website so he could possibly order one. 6 kids, 6 adults... 6 lb. butt GONE!

Incredible. Meat fell off the bone. You could taste the rub all over it. Pulled perfect with just two forks. Neighborhood hero in just one night!!!

Thanks again!

Good job. You shouldn't let everyone know how easy it is.

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Originally posted by Cunninghams:
Guys,

It turned out unbelievable. 1st one ever and I had both neighbors asking me to put one in for them when i cook my next one. One got the website so he could possibly order one. 6 kids, 6 adults... 6 lb. butt GONE!

Incredible. Meat fell off the bone. You could taste the rub all over it. Pulled perfect with just two forks. Neighborhood hero in just one night!!!

Thanks again!

Congratulations!