Just some butts

[squirtthecat]

Unless I remember to dig it out of the garage freezer tonight, I'm going to do some frozen chicken tomorrow.   

[mikecorn.1]

How does this sound. If I remember correct, I read that meat stops taking on smoke flavor after it gets to a certain temp. Maybe what's happening is that since they are frozen, obviously it takes longer to heat up thereby taking more smoke  
Ok, bring on the corrections and comments . I'm at work and in between jobs so take it easy on me.


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[smokeasaurus]

Could be Mike, I am thinking since a very cold mass of meat is placed in the smoker the pit wont come up to temp as fast and you will get more smoke early on as the meat comes up to temp and then the temps in the pit stabilize.......

[squirtthecat]

 'Bout 5 1/2 hours in..

[smokeasaurus]

Those are looking real nice!!   Nice and Smokey!!

[Old Hickory]

Looking good.

[muebe]

Could be Mike, I am thinking since a very cold mass of meat is placed in the smoker the pit wont come up to temp as fast and you will get more smoke early on as the meat comes up to temp and then the temps in the pit stabilize.......

Smoke the pellet pit with a thermostat will come up to temp regardless. The pellet grill digital thermostat like on Squirt's Traeger will increase the amount of pellets to compensate for the frozen meat unless you are running it in smoke mode.

[smokeasaurus]

Thanks Muebe, I still think like a stick burner owner!!

[Savannahsmoker]

Looking good so far and btw what temp are you smoking at.

[squirtthecat]

So we get home from dinner at the 10 hour mark.   Time for a peek.





Perfect!



Excuse the workbench clutter.








Foiled tight and parked in my Samsbro for about 90 minutes or so.    Then I'll pull and stuff in a couple 2 gallon ziplock bags to get happy overnight in the fridge..

[squirtthecat]

Looking good so far and btw what temp are you smoking at.

250° for the first 6 hours, then down to 225° for the last 4.   They all penned between 196° and 201° IT.

[Keymaster]

Those must be fancy grade AAA butts cause they look good!!

[Pappymn]

Really nice bark and color on those. Gonna be some good eats!

[teesquare]

This is great to know! And - glad to herar it only takes a couple of extra hours.
I had seen squirt do this before - but wanted to draw more attention to the fact that they are FROZEN when he puts them on the cooker.

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[sparky]

they look really good squirt.  love the bark on them.  nice job.