moniz15
Found some matches.
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2014
- Location
- dighton, ma
Despite a bit of snow up here today, decided to fire up the 1969 to cook up some pork butt I had leftover from previous cooks. Fired her up, got temps to settle at 250, then threw the butts on. After 1 hour of holding temps pretty steady between 250-275 on the stack side tel-tru, I noticed the bottom side of the butts were getting pretty charred (see 4th pic below, charred on edges). After also charring the bottom side of a few wings and burnt ends a few weeks ago, I decided to stick my fireboard probe at grate level to see what was going on. Turns out grate is running about 60(!) degrees hotter than what the tel-trus are reading. I flipped the butts over and adjusted my temps to tel-trus would run closer to 210-225 to maintain a grate temp of 275ish. 5th pic is where I'm at now, they are not quite as dark as they look and ready to wrap. Is this difference normal with a stick burner? Could the tel-tru's just not be calibrated correctly? Obviously I can work with it if I know the temp difference but its just annoying that right out of the box the thermometers are off. Anyone else with a workhorse notice this? This is not a knock on the pit at all, I love it so far, more so the gauges themselves.