Charcoal Addict Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 That damn artic vortex is lounging over Alberta, Canada like a drunk who won’t leave his chair at his favourite dive bar. It’s the 13th day of -27 F - -32 F windchill cold. I had to use my torch to thaw the upper and lower vents to open them. It’s one of the worst February’s we’ve had in 21 years. Normallly it’s 10 F to 40 F most recent years with the expcetion of the odd cold day. We are getting use to warmer winters. it was too cold to use the Joetisserie last night so I opted for roasting instead. I decided to make a trurkey breast and roast vegetables in a foil pan using the same method used to cook a spatchcock Turkey. I just had lump banked to the front and rotated the cook halfway through. This ended-up backfiring on me: I started to run low on lump with the Turkey still at 155 F; I used the oven to finish the final 5 F for a 160 F finished temp. The Joe dropped to 225 F from the original 325 F cooking temp. I could’ve added more lump to recover the temp back to 325 F to finish the cook on the Big Joe; it wasn’t worth it for 5 degrees. The oven finished the turkey in 10 minutes. It was a mistake to run a half load of Maple lump and one halfmoon defector in the insanely bitter cold temps. I would’ve been better off if I had used a 80% full Kick ash basket of lump with both deflectors in both sides versus trying to use a half load method in the bitter cold. It worked out the the result was great as you can see from the picks below. For a laugh, I had to use my torch to close the lower vent because it froze open and I couldn’t close it without taking a torch to it for 20 seconds to thaw it. This is Alberta cold; not that Texas cold some American think is actually cold. Thank god it wasn’t Winnipeg/Minneapolis cold. Everyone has their limits. KismetKamado, gotzero, Golf Griller and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skreef Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 That cook looks amazing. Im cold natured. I glad we are not having your weather. Stay warm Charcoal Addict 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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King19 Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Pitter Patter I stood out in rain and 45 F smoking Sunday gravy I almost put on a pair of sweat pants Texas cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_grill_apprentice Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Looks delicious. Charcoal Addict 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KismetKamado Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Looks like it was worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charcoal Addict Posted February 12, 2019 Author Share Posted February 12, 2019 4 hours ago, Jack 101 said: It’s well past that point Jack. This is pretty much what it feels like right now after day 14. skreef and Jack. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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