Butt lost temp?

[V-DAWG]

Help! Yesterday I injected a pork butt w some apple juice, water, sugar, Worcestershire, and just a dash of salt. Let it sit over night and at 8:30am it went into my Treager at 250 degrees. I checked it at 12:30pm and my internal temp was 145 but my hopper ran out of pellets. So I threw more pellets in and thought nothing of it. Came back out later to check on it and my grill lost temp and my internal meat temp dropped to 110. I turned the grill off and then back on and now my temp is climbing again. Is this butt still safe?

[Ryan]

Get the temp back up there and you should be fine. Continue cooking it till someone with more experience than me chimes in.

[tadowdaddy]

I don't know the rule, but you did get it above 140 in 4 hours, so from that standpoint it is safe. Pork you need to get to 160 to eat, so it didn't reach that point. I don't think it's bad though, I'd keep cooking it. I'm sure Rich will chime in soon!

[V-DAWG]

Update: the neighbor knocks on my door and says, "your grill is smoking to beat hell!" I said, nah, that is a good thing... Went out to check and I had it set at 250, however the temp ramped up to 530! Opened the door to some good flames.... Now it's got a nice char sear.... Some of a.... This is my first real bad boo boo BBQ.... Very humbling experience....

[bigun94]

Doh hate to hear that we've all ruined meat it sucks but that's part of it

[Ryan]

I don't know the rule, but you did get it above 140 in 4 hours, so from that standpoint it is safe. Pork you need to get to 160 to eat, so it didn't reach that point. I don't think it's bad though, I'd keep cooking it. I'm sure Rich will chime in soon!

Whole pork only needs to go to 145 now. Like you said Rich should be chiming in

Well you should be above 140 with it at 530 it happens. It'll still be good on the inside.

[Otis857]

Well, I dont think you have to worry much about any live bacteria now My guess is that you may not like the bark, but the meat underneath should still be good. Run it up to 205 IT and go for it.

Oh well, sh!t happens. Do a search for bbq snafus and you'll see that we've all done things that we can laugh about,...now.

[V-DAWG]

Trying to get a pretty funny pic for you to ridicule me, lol.

[MrZip66]

Thats the good Lord telling you to get a Maverick! I've had some doozies too. Best thing about those times is your dog will think you are the coolest master in the world cooking food just like he likes it :)

[Richtee]

An explanation of the 40 to 140 rule: Time is cumulative... EG: 4 hours TOTAL between those temps. You were likely close, but I think you are OK. I see you injected it. That can change things. You possibly could carry surface contamination into the meat. This may be a concern...technically injected meat should be brought to 165 IT. It is basically considered ground meat.

That's the reason you should not insert temp probes until the meat has reached 140 on the surface.

No such thing as a "set and forget" smoker. I love the Lang... I have to be there at min every 45 mins :{)

[V-DAWG]

So I opened up the grill and the drip pan burst into flames damn hear higher than the chimney of my grill! After about 10 mins after the flames died down I finally got my thoughts collected. Took the meat off and started taking it apart. Once I got to the heating element box....this is what I run across. Enough pellets for ya? Hey Mossy, you know you were trying to sell me some pellets? Well, I'd be a pretty good customer! Can I order in bulk?!

[V-DAWG]

I should have had it on video, me running around in circles freaking out, flames roaring from the grill, choking on smoke....

[Mark R]

Something not right with that smoker - Oh Treager. Is it a fairly new one?
I've heard of lots of problems with the "newer" ones.

I'd cook it to 200° IT, peal off the Bur...ark ans see what ya got inside. Might be aight!

[V-DAWG]

I got it about 5 years ago. I think the hole where the heating element is was dirty, it's been used a lot since I last cleaned it. That doesn't help. Regardless it's obvious pellets quite burning, then when I turned it off and back on the heating element heated back up and a whole stockpile of pellets started on fire. Not good. Something does seem a bit fishy to me too....

[V-DAWG]

By the way, being I wouldn't be firing back up until now 4:00pm., now that it's all cleaned up and put back together, I just chucked the butt and will cry myself to sleep. It's way, way outside 4 hrs.