Urgent Q question: smoke cycle interrupted. Do I need to throw out butts?

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I'm making lunch for a group tomorrow. I put 2 5.5lb butts in my Amerique at 5:50 p.m. Checked on things at 7:00 p.m. and the smoker power was off. Meat read 48 degrees, smoker 70 degrees.

Will it be safe to continue with these butts? 48 degrees sound right for about 1 hour of cooking time but this has been 1.5 hours.

I don't have much time to make a decision.

Dave

10/28/125:06 PM

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cal 2Member

YES!

Meat would have been below 40* for an hour, so you've only been in the danger zone for under an hour, I'd have no problem on cooking them with the time and temps you have provided.

10/28/125:18 PM

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mrt 2Where there's smoke, there's beer.

No problem as you will be taking your meat to the 200 degree range.

10/28/125:47 PM

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Thanks guys. I thought that I would be o.k. but I wanted to be sure.

10/28/126:26 PM

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