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This Thanksgiving I made my way to the Denver area to visit my brother, and I decided to touch upon the topic of grilling at high altitudes (5000-8000 feet above sea level). At higher altitudes, there is lower air pressure and as a result the boiling point of water drops. At sea level, water normally boils at 212′ F while at 7,000 feet water boils at 198′ F due to the fact there is less pressure to inhibit the boiling of the water (this can fluctuate due to the additives in the water, barometric pressure, etc). Another side effect of the high altitude is the liquids will evaporate more quickly so you’ll need to take this into account as well.
We’ve got a busy weekend coming up. Saturday I’m heading over to take a class from Bob Snelson of Lotta BS BBQ, a competitive team from here in Kansas City. We’re trying to get a handle on our presentation and we’ve got some work to do on our chicken as well (although we may have that one figured out). I’ll be bringing my camera and doing a detailed post next week on how the whole thing goes and in the future will be giving you some details on other BBQ classes that are available.
In addition to that, our competition team (Burnt Finger BBQ) is smoking 13 turkeys for Thanksgiving for friends and family. I’ll be documenting and maybe doing some video of that process as well. So here’s to a full week of smokin’ some meat!
In the meantime our friends at The Art of Manliness let us know how to carve a turkey LIKE A MAN!
This Thanksgiving I made my way to the Denver area to visit my brother, and I decided to touch upon the topic of grilling at high altitudes (5000-8000 feet above sea level). At higher altitudes, there is lower air pressure and as a result the boiling point of water drops. At sea level, water normally boils at 212′ F while at 7,000 feet water boils at 198′ F due to the fact there is less pressure to inhibit the boiling of the water (this can fluctuate due to the additives in the water, barometric pressure, etc). Another side effect of the high altitude is the liquids will evaporate more quickly so you’ll need to take this into account as well.
