Working on those Night Moves

[16Adams]

Have a brisket and a pork picnic. Gonna hang in the drum around 10pm. Let them work on their night moves

 

[cowgirl]

Nice! Night briskets are the best! :grin:

 

[16Adams]

Think I'll move start time up to 9pm.
Almost 10pm
Brisket and Picnic hung
Smoke looks right
Stack open intake on #2

The Kingsford Chili Cumin Mesquite coals smell great

 

[Inthewoods]

That bag of charcoal reads and feels like a bag of whack flavored Doritos.

-D

 

[Twangzer Mike]

Will you be getting up in the middle of the night to stoke the fire ?

 

[16Adams]

Lost control of my scene. Total freaking failure. Pilot error, faulty evasive action, whatever you want to call it, it's on me. Only me. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow and didn't budge until 7+ hours later. 7 hours unattended. Not looked at. New to me coals. Hooked and hanged picnic, I've done that but removed after 4 hours and oven or CP finish.

So here's the part that'll make some laugh some cringe. The picnic came off and dropped snuffing half the coals. Caveman, that's cool let's temp it. 182° on coal side 120° on top. Now did the top ever go higher or is it just now reaching 120° seven hours later. Not a question I want to answer with my intestines. Trash. The brisket was still hanging, looking good. 179° fire side and 117° IT in places. Trashed it too.

Night moves.
I sucked

 

[Stingerhook]

It was a valiant effort Adams.

 

[kevinstaggs]

Lost control of my scene. Total freaking failure. ...
Night moves. I sucked

16, I don't think it was you. I'm sure it was the little gnome guy. You can't trust him.

 

[4ever3]

damn…

Time marches on

 

[ModelMaker]

You are in my prayers.
Ed

 

[Kevin James]

Well that sucks, but you can't win them all and some times **** just happens. There's always next time.

 

[16Adams]

Wife: "quitchyer cry'n and go buy two on sale pork butts, I promised some to J****."
Me: she knew?
Wife: she knew and knows what happened.

Man works better under pressure, and without sympathy

 

[Robert]

Lessons learned. Temp controller or alarm to awake you to check the fire periodically during the night.
Hunsaker makes a cage for hanging big pieces of meat for those that like to do total cooks hanging. I have never hung anything but ribs and they start falling at an hour and 45 minutes for me. So on the rack at 1 1/2 hours.



Better luck next time.

 

[halfcocked]

I would not be able to sleep well (or long) with meat in the cooker. Anyway, in my case when one thing goes wrong most others do as well. Looks like you may have salvaged some of it.

 

[Big George's BBQ]

What happened to the Brisket and did you replace the Butts

 

[Maylar]

Ain't it funny how the night moves?

 

[16Adams]

Back in the saddle again. Two picnics no brisket

 

[16Adams]

What happened to the Brisket and did you replace the Butts

The brisket "probably" would've been ok, but not willing to risk it. It was trashed too.

 

[16Adams]

Ain't it funny how the night moves?

Amen, neither one cared

 

[PitRow]

Dang, that sucks :-(