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Pork Butt cooking question??
Bagger722
Posts: 81
I think I may be over analyzing this but I figured that I would ask just to make sure. My cousin stopped by last week with a few pork butts with me. The packages have two in them and total about 12-14lbs. So each one must be around 6-7lbs.
My question is some of the recipes and cooking charts I have read say 1.5 hours per pound or I've read cook an 8lb. butt for 10 hours. Being that each one is 6-7lbs. and I'm going to cook two at a time, would I set my cooking time for the combined weight of the butts or seeing as there are two separate pieces would I cook for the 6-7lbs time?
Also, what recipe/way do you guys like to cook your butts? Open to suggestions.
Thanks again in advance for the help.
My question is some of the recipes and cooking charts I have read say 1.5 hours per pound or I've read cook an 8lb. butt for 10 hours. Being that each one is 6-7lbs. and I'm going to cook two at a time, would I set my cooking time for the combined weight of the butts or seeing as there are two separate pieces would I cook for the 6-7lbs time?
Also, what recipe/way do you guys like to cook your butts? Open to suggestions.
Thanks again in advance for the help.
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just figure 1 1/2 to 2 hours per pound based on the individual butt weights but cook to temp not time. Mine usually go over the 2 hour window
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So if I'm cooking both 7lb. butts, plan my cook time for the 7lbs. not the combined weight correct?
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Correct, just be sure they are not touching each other in the egg.
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Awesome, thank you guys very much. They are going to be next weekends project. Looking forward to it and having the weekend off.
Happy Eggin'!!! -
The timing is a planning thing but seldom bears much of a relationship with reality. The suggestion of 1.5 to 2 hours per pound is a good working estimate. And, as has been suggested, if there's much contact between the two pieces of meat you timing will more resemble that of a single piece of meat.
The important thing is the internal meat temperature at which you pull from the Egg. -
Big Al,
The only difference in cooking multiple butts is that it may take a lttle longer to come back up to temp because of a larger cold mass in the egg. It DOES NOT make a difference if the butts are touching. NONE! ZERO!
Butts start shrinking almost immediately so they pull away from each other. I put 2-paks on that are frozen to each other all of the time and it makes no difference. In the morning they will be 4 inches apart from each other. The touching thing is a myth.
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