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Default Low vs not-so-low/was: Basting with bacon

Jack Schidt® typed:
> " BOB" wrote...
>> Barry typed:
>>> Isn't 300 degrees a bit hgh for smoking a but? I keep it lower to avoid
>>> any drying out.
>>> 300 seems like it saves time though.

>>
>> Not really. I usually cook at 250 to 275, so 300 isn't really all that

> much
>> higher.
>> Recently, I did an experiment, cooked 2 butts, one right after the other.
>> First was cooked at about 350, the other cooked about 250. Both rubbed

> with
>> exactly the same rub. Both cooked to about 198 internal. Of course the

> 350 butt
>> took less time.
>> Side-by-side, you could tell a slight difference. Not really sure what

> the
>> difference was, texture or less fat maybe, but the 250 butt was better, in

> the
>> minds of the testers. Most of the tests were "blind".

>
> Or maybe the testers were blind. Buncha drunks.
>

HMMmmm? Never thought of that.
BUT one of the females doesn't drink alcohol (wimp!) and she consistantly went for
the low-and-slow, even when we switched the plates.