Ok guys, so I’ve been up and down with the brisket. Yesterday I smoked a pork butt and of course it came out perfect - you all know that’s the easiest thing. Then I brought the temp up from 250 to 300 and smoked some wings. Those were good too.
THEN I started trying to get the temp down to 225 again for the brisket. Messed with that thing for 1.5 hours trying to get it right. Finally around midnight I shut the thing down, went and took a shower and came back up and it registered 225. I opened the vents to about 1/2 inch and said forget it and went to bed.
Well, of course the egg was out, and I woke up this am to a dead grill and a brisket I’m gonna have to throw away.
So: after that TLDR story:
1) How to you reduce your egg temp effectively?
2). How is a pellet grill for smoking? I just watched a Traeger video and really didn’t see any smoke happening when he was cooking a brisket. School me on pellet grills.
THEN I started trying to get the temp down to 225 again for the brisket. Messed with that thing for 1.5 hours trying to get it right. Finally around midnight I shut the thing down, went and took a shower and came back up and it registered 225. I opened the vents to about 1/2 inch and said forget it and went to bed.
Well, of course the egg was out, and I woke up this am to a dead grill and a brisket I’m gonna have to throw away.
So: after that TLDR story:
1) How to you reduce your egg temp effectively?
2). How is a pellet grill for smoking? I just watched a Traeger video and really didn’t see any smoke happening when he was cooking a brisket. School me on pellet grills.