Heya chaps.
A big shoutout to @Narm Naleg who organised the Sydney Cape Grim group buy. I hadn't had Cape Grim before now.
My Texas Pro Pit is only a few months old and I have cooked ribs, beef chuck, chicken, pork, fish in it. I knew how to maintain temps so was confident enough to try my first brisket.
I thought I'd try something I picked up from reading this excellent forum. The overnight fuse. Also Firebrand charcoal is fantastic and it is the only briquette I will use form now on. No more Heat Beads. These are only a little bit more expensive but burn so much better and cleaner than stinky ol' Heat Beads!
I was having people over for lunch, so set up the snake late at night and lit the chimney around 11.00pm. I dumped it on the Firebrand snake/fuse at 11.30pm and the cooker took a legitimate hour to get up to temp. Lesson learnt for next time. Start earlier!
Brisket rubbed and put in the cooker at 12.30am
I then went to bed! Very impressed with the charcoal, the cooker and the fuse. It burnt at 225-240F without any intervention from me. I added chunks of mesquite to the fuse so it had smoke for the whole time I was asleep.
I woke up to this:
I crutched the brisket at 155F. Pretty boring from here on in - I just let it cook and get to temp.
I wish I had started a couple of hours earlier because I only rested the cut for 30mins before lunch was served. It was still delicious!
So there you go guys. Brisket and sleep in an offset is a possibility. With the right charcoal of course. My next cook will involve burning sticks (sourced some red ironbark) and you bet I will post it up here. Great forum, thanks for reading!