Alright Folks, Refill your cocktail, A couple of years ago..I was down at Mom's(Burbank, Cal), My cousin had fallen into 8 Pork Butts after a benefit BBQ. She had them all in her freezer and asked me to help get rid of them.. I took 2 packages out and lo and behold it was 4 butts. I had never seen or cooked one at that point.
I thought "OH &ell" I can cook this. I called a friend who is a chef and he said 'lo and slow" about 8 hrs at 225.
WEELLLLL. I put them in her oven(this is 4 butts) and set it at 225. I figured there might be some drippins so I fabed a pan from aluminum foil(WRONG). Next Morn. 4 perfectly done butts. Foil pan failed. Pork fat filled up the oven, the drawer under the oven and was running across the kitchen floor. I spent 8 hrs. cleaning up everything I could find and figured I would run the OvenCleaning Program WRONG!!. We had flames.... I mean BIG YELLOW flames. Every smoke detector in the house went off. The Gardners came over to check on us. I mean noisy. Got it out. Spent another 4 hrs. cleaning. Tried the cleaning cycle. FLLLAAAMESSSS!....At this time I found I didn't have the tools to dissassemble the oven further and said I would be back in 2 mo.. to finish the job. The oven was clean but there was a pan under I couldn't get to. The oven would work just not at cleaning temps.
Anyway, My Brother(bless his heart) had the tools and spent another 8 hrs. cleaning up the oven to where it was clean enough to run the cleaning cycle. End of saga till.......
I took another 4 butts home and put them on my Weber Summit Gold(6 burners+). It was humming along at 225 for about 2 hours. I left it alone for about 30 min. and come back to FLAMES!!!! Got that put out and cleaned out the drip pan. Made it thru but it has a permenant gold cast to it. The GLOW never quite went away. Anyway. That's my Rookie Mistake! I hope I have learned a few things since.......