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30 Pound Fresh Ham

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Well folks its been a while since I did a low and slow cook and what better time to dust off the cobwebs than Thanksgiving. I have had two 30 pound hams in my freezer from when I butchered a hog a while back and its time to cook one up. Just started at 6:00pm and got er on the grill about 7:45. All I did is rub it down and inject it with some Jerk marinade. Simple but hopefully delicious.

Here is the setup:

Here is some extruded coconut lump that I still have from several years ago when RJ had the good stuff. Don't be fooled this is NOT the crap he is selling now.

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This is what it looked like when it was the good quality. Notice no mold even after 5 years.

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Here is the KK loaded up, this is all but one row of the box of lump. I put some regular lump on the bottom to get the extruded stuff going. This should easily last the 15 or so hours I plan to cook this beast.

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Here it is all 30 lbs.

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Here it is loaded on the KK

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Thanks DJ for the polder plug!!

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Here is the beautiful KK at work.

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Now I sit and wait.

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I will get some final product pictures tomorrow, I plan to pull it about 10:00am tomorrow morning.

Well here are the final cook pictures, pulled it at 165 deg., about 15 hour cook time. I'll let you know how it tastes in a few hours.

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Final Pictures, and no thats not my wife, its the hostess, good friends of ours. Have to say the ham was awesome, very juicy and luckily lots of leftovers too.

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Just got up an hour ago,meat temp is at about 160 and the grill is still chugging along at 220. No hickups thru the night, slept like a baby. The beer is actually a Black and Tan, however I do have a couple Yuengling in the fridge, they just started selling them hear in Georgia, used to only be able to get them when I went to Hilton Head. Pictures will be coming soon!!!

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Well I definately dispelled the theory that EC doesn't get hot. After the cook I took out all the whole pieces of EC and left the half burnt ones and opened everything up to clean things up a bit. Came back an hour later and the temp guage was pinned. May have been partly the leftover grease burning but it definately got hot.

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