Cook 61 - Jerky Fail
12th January, 2016 02:39 PM by BBQ Phil
This morning my son and I hopped on our bikes and rode to Bunnings to pick up some briquettes as I was out. The round steak I had chopped up the day before and let marinate overnight in some soy sauce and my leftover custom rub.

I then dried them with a paper towel and sprinkled them with a good helping of DL Jardine Steak Seasoning.

At 11:40am, I fired up the chimney and had the pit going 20 minutes later.

At 12:20pm, I noticed that the briquettes don't seem to have lit as the temperature was really low, so I'm starting up another charcoal chimney. First time trying this different brand of heat beads, maybe they're no good. Anyway, 10 minutes, the meat went on and about 20 minutes later I noticed smoke pouring out of the smoker and the rangehood was at 180F.

Cook61-20160112-b


At 1:30pm, the rangehood had risen to 220F, which is more than I'd like. I decided to close 2 vents and the other was half closed. Unfortunately, at this point I got distracted watching movies with my son. An hour later and the rangehood temperature had risen to 300F and the jerky had been burnt :(

Oh well ... better luck next time.

Cook61-20160112