Pork butts and the Plateau data

[MoSmoke]

Hello to all.
I'm new to posting on this forum but I have have been reading and absorbing the smoke since early July.
Over the last month or so I have smoked pork butts on three occasions and have kept a record of the internal temps and the time from start to finish. I have plotted this data in Excel and would like to share it with the forum. Is there any thing special I need to do to attach a file to a post.

The pulled pork was exellent and last weekend I tried Kummok's smoked salmon recipe and it was everything that everyone said it would be, the wife and I really enjoyed it.
With the help of the forum I have built the Dwyer TS and I am in the process of building a PID for tighter control of the temps. I really love my OBS and wish I would have known about them years ago.

Thanks again to all for the wealth of information.

MoSmoke

[NePaSmoKer]

Hi Mo

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you have your Bradley pretty much dialed in  ;D
All sounds good what you have done so far.


nepas

[Habanero Smoker]

MoSmoke;
Thanks for sharing your information.

There is no way to attach a file to a forum post. If you have a personal website (many ISP's provide that to subscribers), you can upload it on your website, or one you have access to, and then post a link. Or you can send it by e-mail to individuals that would like to see the data.

I won't mind taking a look at it. I've found that the plateau is different, depending on what temperature you smoke/cook at. The lower the cabinet temperature, the lower the plateau temperature will be.

[MoSmoke]

Thanks Hab.

It's never simple.
I'll email it to you.

MoSmoke

[iceman]

Thanks for the chart MoSmoke. Good info. ;)

[Habanero Smoker]

Man I need to learn excel better. Thanks for the data. It looks very interesting, I can't wait until I get a chance to take a close look at it.

[Arcs_n_Sparks]

MoSmoke,

You could take your file and convert it to a JPEG and post it as a picture.

Arcs_n_Sparks

[Arcs_n_Sparks]

Here is MoSmoke's data. The plateau is pretty obvious.......

Arcs_n_Sparks

[MoSmoke]

Arc's
Thanks for posting that for me.
I will need to learn how to post jpegs.
I will keep the data updated as I smoke more butts.
Also as you suggested I will try to overlay the BS smoker temps.
I started tracking the smoker temps using the Dwyer TS it was easy but the temp swings looked confusing. I'll work on it and come up with something presentable.
A smoker temp swing plot itself may be informative.

Thanks again for posting it.

MoSmoke

[MoSmoke]

The OBS temps for the above chart were set at:

1st smoke 7/03/07 temp was 215 degrees. This was with 2 butts of approx. 8.5 lbs each.

2nd smoke 7/20/07 temp was 225 degrees. This was with 2 butts of approx. 6 lbs each.

3rd smoke 8/10/07 temp was 225 degrees. This was with 2 butts of approx . 8.5 lbs each.

I had a Dywer TS hooked up to the smoker and if I had to guesstimate the temp swings it would be the temp the OBS was set at plus 5 degrees and minus 10 degrees. I don't know if the TS tightens the temp swing range over the basic OBS like a PID would, but it is nice to be able to dial in a temp and forget it.

MoSmoke

[Carter]

That's a really cool chart MoSmoke.  Thanks for posting.

Carter

[Arcs_n_Sparks]

More MoSmoke data. Showed up in PID wormhole next to my computer...........