Hello all,
I think it worked out pretty well. Maybe these ideas will help out other newbies.
This is my third smoke, brisket this time. Last weekend's ribs took a lot longer than I figured on due to the heat loss while loading up the OBS. So I had to get better "organized".
Preheated my indoor oven on slow cook/low - about 215 F. Added the brisket, still wrapped in foil as well as my foil-wrapped brick (The brick is old news). I didn't use the brick last time.
After about 1/2 hour, I took the shelves out of the OBS and turned it on to preheat. I brought the shelves into the kitchen. I waited until the OBS was up to about 260 F (it was 60 F outside).
I boiled my water for the water bowl, loaded the brisket onto the shelves (I used 2 shelves) got my brick and set everything next to the OBS. I opened the OBS door, slid in the brick, poured in the boiling water and slid in the 2 shelves of meat - maybe 30 seconds worth. The temp dropped way down as expected but recovered to 220 F in minutes. I loaded up the OBS with 4 hours of Oak.
So far, so good. I'll post my results Sunday or Monday along with some pics.
Happy smokin'!
Good ideas and if I may add something, I would have the bowl filled with boiling water ouside and just slip it in place. That should cut your down time by a god 5 seconds.
HR
PS: I would be interested what WTS would say about heating the foiled brisket in the oven first.
Quote from: Hopefull Romantic on September 12, 2009, 06:17:34 AM
Good ideas and if I may add something, I would have the bowl filled with boiling water outside and just slip it in place. That should cut your down time by a god 5 seconds.
Thanks HR, good idea. Probably even add the brick and water to the drip dray and bowl outside of the OBS and slip the whole thing back in.
HR
PS: I would be interested what WTS would say about heating the foiled brisket in the oven first.
Me too. Basically, it's like bring the meat up to a warm room temp (it was 65 F in the kitchen this morning). It doesn't get so hot that it can't be handled by hand.
Be looking forward to the pics.
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