dinosdeuce
Is lookin for wood to cook with.
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2013
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
The only thing I have never smoked before was in a masterbuilt electric smoker. Today was my first smoke using charcoal and hickory chunks. Results were not so good. Could have been my choice in meat, wrong cut. I don’t know. I have a lot to learn that’s for sure. Will do more reading on here for the next smoke.
Details:
Beautiful day, temp hit 60f with no wind (unusual for here)
2 Pork sirloins 5.4lbs and 6.8lbs
Rubbed with a Memphis style rub
Put water in pan directly on diffuser.
1 16.6lb bag of Kingsford charcoal with hickory chunks buried
Closed down the vents and left them there
Smoked 9 1/2 hrs with average temp of 225F charcoal started dying at the 9 hr mark
Temperature probe in the bigger sirloin and it never got above 158F
Hit 151F at the 6 hour mark
Charcoal started dying at the 9 hour mark.
Meat was tough and dry.
Pics: Rubbed, end of cook, resting on counter, dry meat
Details:
Beautiful day, temp hit 60f with no wind (unusual for here)
2 Pork sirloins 5.4lbs and 6.8lbs
Rubbed with a Memphis style rub
Put water in pan directly on diffuser.
1 16.6lb bag of Kingsford charcoal with hickory chunks buried
Closed down the vents and left them there
Smoked 9 1/2 hrs with average temp of 225F charcoal started dying at the 9 hr mark
Temperature probe in the bigger sirloin and it never got above 158F
Hit 151F at the 6 hour mark
Charcoal started dying at the 9 hour mark.
Meat was tough and dry.
Pics: Rubbed, end of cook, resting on counter, dry meat
