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6 / OVEN BREAKPOINT GUIDE
The breakpoint plays a critical role in the consistency of your product and is often to blame for poor product yields (or the remaining weight of your product after cooking). How the Breakpoint Affects Product Consistency
As already mentioned, it is the air in the breakpoint that actually cooks your product. How the Breakpoint Cooks Your Product
Most smokehouses offer only a handful of breakpoint locations in the oven —meaning product closest to those breakpoints get cooked faster and more thoroughly, while product furthest from the breakpoints cooks slower.
The varying rates of cooking caused by fewer breakpoints in the oven leads to higher yield gaps: where some product on your rack is over cooked and other product is cooked just right. As you have likely experience, this results in inconsistent product yields and coloring. The product closest to the breakpoint often can be burnt, darker, and in some cases, needs to be thrown out, while product furthest from the breakpoint achieves the color desired. Imagine the difference in your product if there were more breakpoints in the oven! Rather than needing to overcook the product closest to the breakpoint so that product furthest from the breakpoint can be cooked, there would be more breakpoints —meaning less product would be away from the breakpoint.
The velocity of the breakpoint air as it moves across product on the rack essentially wipes away a layer of cold air surrounding the product and replaces it with hot air.
A typical oven creates a cold spot in the in the top middle of the rack and hot spots on the bottom corners — giving you darker, drier product in the hot spots and lighter, less dry product in the cold spots. If you can create more breakpoints and control where they go, you can eliminate the cold spots and achieve consistency in your product. Product Consistency
The hot air left behind is eventually transferred to the product, cooking it to the required temperature.
When there are more breakpoints in the oven, you eliminate those cold spots and your product cooks more consistently.
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