For those of you that throw away food after freezing, are you vacuum sealing? I’ve come upon food that is 2 years old, and reheats (sous vide) and tastes (almost) as good as the day I cooked it. The key is to freeze in 1-2 portion size bags to avoid freeze/thaw/freeze cycles
Sorry, just saw this. For now I have an old rectangular drip pan that is about 12" x 8", and I fill up with a couple of inches of water (ie enough so it wont completely evaporate)
I have a bull and a bullseye, and find the direct heat of the 380 makes my low and slow cooks too fast/dry. I’ve started using a drip pan filled with water and it seems to turn the heat source into more of an indirect heat and ribs much better now.
if I’m making chicken I don’t use drip pan and...
I had the exact same issue with my new bullseye. Cooked St Louis ribs at 225, which I've done many times in my previous setup, and ribs were burned to a crisp after 4 hr. That prompted me to measure temp, as you did, with my thermoworks probe, and saw temps were also too high by 80 degrees. I...