What's for dinner tonight? Dinner ideas?

[MidwestSmoker]

I think we should all plan a get together in Iowa! Living next to Timmy would be bliss, but for many of us a short lived bliss. But visiting on occasion should be enjoyable and safe!

 

[miguelb]

Mine was a total blow out, clearly it attempted restarts on its own, overflowed the firepot, forced smoke into the hopper big time. I had to pull the plug, go in with gloves and water sprayer, pull it down, clean and restart, ARRGH!

I'm guessing weak hotrod.View attachment 6039

@RemE that happened to me the last time I did the pizza. I was justing the temperature at 400 - 500 with both pizza stone and grill grates and it did it as I initiated the shutdown. It went berserker and even the lid pop up a bit. I saw ton of smoke and it keep on going but I unplugged it. I found that initiating 'keep warm' then shutdown has not resulted in this happening since which was today's cook. Sorry that this happened something is definitely wrong.

 

[tommyb50]

Good job!! Looks good!

Thanks!

 

[Timmy]

The brisket, that’s all I’m gonna comment on….

It was really juicy had excellent excellent bark. Was a little thick on the bottom. I did fat side up. No wrap.

Considering the grill was screwed up it came out really good. Next time I will do overnight, fat side down no wrap.

I’ll post on the grill in shortly.

 

[Timmy]

The grill today….ok here is what I think happened. At noon I turned the grill down to have the lid open to wrap and move stuff, I forgot to turn the temp back up to temp which was around 230f FB temp when I finished moving stuff.At this time the Bear mountain pellet should have been pretty much gone, I dumped some TRAEGER pecan pellets to finish the cook, approx a hopper full. I need to add I had trouble with the same bag during the winter when I did the Cajun broil. It was at least 45 mins before I realized my mistake , temp drop in the proteins was approximately 30f.
The grill went back up to temp but had smoke coming out of the hopper periodically so I turned temp to 250f FB temp. It took 2 1/2 hours for proteins to start moving back up. Initials proteins were respectively and around 191 brisket and 160 pastrami they dropped to the 170s and 150 s.
When I took the grill apart the fire pot was full of crap, partially burnt pellets and this stuff

It’s a hard melted mass of pellets. And the fire pot had a small airway leading into the cook chamber. There was NO way this grill was working correctly. I’m truly surprised it did as good as it did. Any for me NO MORE TRAEGER PELLETS. PERIOD !!!!

I’m going to take the insulator tray out this week and give it a thorough cleaning , I have 3 pork butts to cook Friday night into Saturday.

 

[Slimpicker]

for me NO MORE TRAEGER PELLETS. PERIOD !!!!

 

[Timmy]

The brisket, that’s all I’m gonna comment on….View attachment 6051
It was really juicy had excellent excellent bark. Was a little thick on the bottom. I did fat side up. No wrap.

Considering the grill was screwed up it came out really good. Next time I will do overnight, fat side down no wrap.

I’ll post on the grill in shortly.

I tried to get it to 203f but it wouldn’t go over 198f so I pulled it. It rested in the cooler for an hour or so. When I cut into it it was really juicy but was falling apart ,so it was over done. But it tasted amazing!

 

[Timmy]

Here is what was on tap for today.

 

[Slimpicker]

>> I think we have said before, also, 200°+ is not pure science either... if I can find it on here somewhere somebody also pulled before 200 and still thought it was over cooked....

 

[Timmy]

>> I think we have said before, also, 200°+ is not pure science either... if I can find it on here somewhere somebody also pulled before 200 and still thought it was over cooked....

Yep I remember see that post, I believe since it was at 191 then temp drop then back up, it finished before 200.

 

[Slimpicker]

^^^^^^ I AGREE ^^^^

 

[Slimpicker]

And the corned beefs???? They had to turn out like some good eh?

 

[RemE]

Dinner came out great in the end! Having the Fireboard makes disaster recovery easy, after I restarted the grill it behaved normally. The ribs took longer but I just drove by the temps, the needle probes are the bomb.

My analysis of my flame outs;
My grill is insulated, it's also the smaller 850 size model. This gives me a heat issue. The grill is so efficient that adding more heat, smoke tube, sunlight, conspires to add enough extra heat that the controller drops the feed rate to the point of flame out on low temp cooks.

I had the grill set at 180F but it was running over 200F when it flamed out. I have only had flame outs and unstable temp regulation when using smoke tubes at low pit temps.

Stock grills leak enough heat to give the controller more bandwidth to add heat as needed. But even stock grills can have low temp struggles on hot sunny days.

 

[Timmy]

And the corned beefs???? They had to turn out like some good eh?

To tell the truth, I put them in the cooler for an hour or 2 then they went straight into the fridge. Everyone left about 45 mins ago and I’m beat. Lol
Anyway I figured they would be easier to slice thinner after a overnight chill.

 

[Timmy]

Dinner came out great in the end! Having the Fireboard makes disaster recovery easy, after I restarted the grill it behaved normally. The ribs took longer but I just drove by the temps, the needle probes are the bomb.

My analysis of my flame outs;
My grill is insulated, it's also the smaller 850 size model. This gives me a heat issue. The grill is so efficient that adding more heat, smoke tube, sunlight, conspires to add enough extra heat that the controller drops the feed rate to the point of flame out on low temp cooks.

I had the grill set at 180F but it was running over 200F when it flamed out. I have only had flame outs and unstable temp regulation when using smoke tubes at low pit temps.

Stock grills leak enough heat to give the controller more bandwidth to add heat as needed. But even stock grills can have low temp struggles on hot sunny days.

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Looks good @RemE !

Yesterday both my grill were running around 125 130 unplugged sitting in tube sun , ambient was like 91f.