Hi,
I’ve had my Bull since July and use it 3-4 times per week, but over the past couple weeks I’ve had a few cooks that went really fast for the temp and I thought my temps might be running a little high. Burnt some STL spare ribs 2 weeks ago, had a pork butt blast through with no stall(temp set at 225), and tonight had STL spare ribs that were almost done in 2.5 hours at 225.
I put my 2 RT probes thru a potato, so they were open air about 2-4” off the grates and they were running about 35-40 degrees higher than what the app said. I had the Bull set at 200 at this point and they were reading 235-242. I watched the video, maxed out the offset to 20% and they were within +4-9 degrees at 250 and -2 to +2 AT 225, so that worked.
My question - does this indicate something is wrong or do I just run with the 20% offset and watch? My original pellets were the Rec Teq pack that came with it and I have been using Lumberjack and Bear Mountain, but I don’t think that coincides with when the temps started spiking…but, could different pellets be a possible cause?
Thanks!
I’ve had my Bull since July and use it 3-4 times per week, but over the past couple weeks I’ve had a few cooks that went really fast for the temp and I thought my temps might be running a little high. Burnt some STL spare ribs 2 weeks ago, had a pork butt blast through with no stall(temp set at 225), and tonight had STL spare ribs that were almost done in 2.5 hours at 225.
I put my 2 RT probes thru a potato, so they were open air about 2-4” off the grates and they were running about 35-40 degrees higher than what the app said. I had the Bull set at 200 at this point and they were reading 235-242. I watched the video, maxed out the offset to 20% and they were within +4-9 degrees at 250 and -2 to +2 AT 225, so that worked.
My question - does this indicate something is wrong or do I just run with the 20% offset and watch? My original pellets were the Rec Teq pack that came with it and I have been using Lumberjack and Bear Mountain, but I don’t think that coincides with when the temps started spiking…but, could different pellets be a possible cause?
Thanks!