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smoking Datil Pork Butt for Christmas

My mom always brings me random things to try while BBQ'ing. This time it was a package of Dittle Datil rub that she picked up in St. Augustine. I haven't tried it but we will tomorrow. I put the butt on the smoker around noon and it just got done a few minutes ago and is in a cooler resting.
 
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datil in St Augustine is like New Orleans and jazz.  I'm certain the rub did you right, judging from them pics dat shit is outta sight!  
 
Looks like a good rub for sure. At first it looks pepper heavy, like pepper powder and no sugar or salt, but then it performs like it should and you got that mahogany bark! :clap:
 
Well the butt came out perfectly cooked. The bark on the outside was pretty spicy but not overwhelming. In the future if I use the rub again I will probably mix it with my normal bbq rub since I like more brown sugar in mine. All in all it was enjoyed by everyone.
 
chiefmanywrenches said:
Well the butt came out perfectly cooked. The bark on the outside was pretty spicy but not overwhelming. In the future if I use the rub again I will probably mix it with my normal bbq rub since I like more brown sugar in mine. All in all it was enjoyed by everyone.
 
Aha!!! I could tell it lacked sugar, man I'm good!!! :D
 
The Hot Pepper said:
 
Aha!!! I could tell it lacked sugar, man I'm good!!! :D
 
Yeah it was heavy in chili powder, paprika and had enough ground datil peppers to give it a good heat. That mixed with some brown sugar, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and maybe a little cumin and we will have a winner.
 
He's getting the air temp w/o touching hot parts of grill. Hehe. But those probes are made for food. Install a thermometer on your grill. ;)
 
I was wondering if he was using it to insulate from the probe getting conductive heat from the grate (ie using the metal poke-through clip that I, and many, use)?
 
The Party Q uses an alligator clip to the grate itself, calls it a thermocouple, and hints that it's increasingly accurate over a probe ... it's hints delicately as if that's somewhat unsubstantiated, or maybe anecdotal, or maybe I'm examining it too closely ...
 
I find the Maverick probe (in air, on clip) was reading 10-12F higher than the Party Q was figuring the grate to be, most all of the time ...
 
I also find my temp pen reads 5F higher than the probes (Mav and iGrill) ...
 
Always looking for tips and tricks and hacks ...
 
Cheers!
 
They also make dual probes for food so wasn't sure. The wood made me think it's a food probe with no accessory to clip to grill.
 
I have the BBQ Guru DIGI-Q DX2. Best thing ever for keeping the smoker at whatever temp I want for however long I want. It has a food probe and a pit probe that used to have an alligator clip but it got lost. I just stick it in the wood to keep it off the grate. I also have a regular smoker thermometer that isn't digital.
 
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