Kickback wrote:I had the first go with the cyber q this weekend and it was a success. It certainly took the stress out of temperature control and was certainly cool being able to check and change temperature from my phone. Only downside was the fan seemed to take a long time to bring the temperature up - I started smoking a brisket at 190 and wanted to up it to 225 after a few hours but it took around an hour to do that which surprised me.
I was thinking about how the partyQ would cane the batteries bringing it up to temp. once I have one I think I will open all the WSM vents to bring it up, then only engage the partyQ once the cooker is closer to target. I've never considered staged-temp cooking like you described, I expect I will at some point (will cross that bridge when I come to it)
Kickback wrote:I also initial made a school boy error of hooking the grill temperature probe under the brisket so I got a false low reading due to the meet temperature bringing it down. Still live and learn!
I did the very same thing last Friday evening, fortunately the brisket still came out good, phew, could have been a pricey mistake
