Phat Boy
Knows what a fatty is.
Good afternoon brethren! Now, while I have smoked many a brisky, much to everyone else's delight whom eats it, to myself, there has always been something just a bit "off". While everyone else raves, I cannot help to think to myself what I could have done to make it even better, but I finally found out that I just need to be a bit more patient.
I started off Saturday night around 11:00 with a 15 lb packer.
After rubbed with EVOO anD S/P/G/O, I waited for the UDS to get to temp.
Side note- I bought an electric charcoal starter and will probably never use the chimney again! I hated trying to dump coals in the basket in the UDS.
After about 10 min coals were ready and the brisky went on.
Temps were steady at 225 (with a long thermometer stuck through a hole down to the grate)
After about 4 hours I decided to use the digital thermometer down the smoke stack and it shot to 400 and kept climbing. I immediately opened the lid and placed the probe on the grate and much to my dismay it did the same thing-400 and climbing. I checked my original thermometer and it had apparently been submerged in the water pan below the brisky (this was the first time I used a water pan on the UDS.) I KCCO'd and immediately played damage control to get the temps where I needed them and decided to put my brisky fate in the BBQ God's hands and called it a night (minus the few minutes of sleep lost to check temps every 1.5 hrs).
After a 8:45 wake up call from my 2 yr old son, it was time to get up and see if we were ready to wrap. Foiled around 10:00 am, and back on until probe ready.
I began to probe around 3:00 and met resistance. After another hour, still not probing like butta. One more hour and we were ready to be removed and placed in a cooler.
It was this point in which I informed my wife that they were in for something special.
I started off Saturday night around 11:00 with a 15 lb packer.
After rubbed with EVOO anD S/P/G/O, I waited for the UDS to get to temp.
Side note- I bought an electric charcoal starter and will probably never use the chimney again! I hated trying to dump coals in the basket in the UDS.
After about 10 min coals were ready and the brisky went on.
Temps were steady at 225 (with a long thermometer stuck through a hole down to the grate)
After about 4 hours I decided to use the digital thermometer down the smoke stack and it shot to 400 and kept climbing. I immediately opened the lid and placed the probe on the grate and much to my dismay it did the same thing-400 and climbing. I checked my original thermometer and it had apparently been submerged in the water pan below the brisky (this was the first time I used a water pan on the UDS.) I KCCO'd and immediately played damage control to get the temps where I needed them and decided to put my brisky fate in the BBQ God's hands and called it a night (minus the few minutes of sleep lost to check temps every 1.5 hrs).
After a 8:45 wake up call from my 2 yr old son, it was time to get up and see if we were ready to wrap. Foiled around 10:00 am, and back on until probe ready.
I began to probe around 3:00 and met resistance. After another hour, still not probing like butta. One more hour and we were ready to be removed and placed in a cooler.
It was this point in which I informed my wife that they were in for something special.
ray:. That brisket looks awesome. And I'm sure it tasted just as good.
