First Pork Butt

jeffgrice

So I am trying my hand at a pork butt for the first time. I'm a little nervous about really messing this up and ruining our July 4 pulled pork sandwiches. I have 5.5 lbs bone in butt. I'm guessing that it should take 10-12 hours to cook.

Do I need to put the meat on a rack or just directly on the grill?

I have not tried a low temperature cook like this before, so I am hoping that I won't be up all night fine tuning the temp.

Wish me luck.

Rusty Rooster

Stabilize your egg approx. 250, wrap your platesetter with foil, legs up, put it on the grid above the platesetter and cook it till 200 internal.  If you want to accelerate the time, double wrap it in HDAF after about six hours.  Easy Peasy and a butt is the most forgiving cut you can cook.

Philly35

You can't screw it up. It's a pork butt!

r2davis65

Ditto what Rusty said. Enjoy, and take a photo.

tulocay

I would suggest planning on getting done a couple of hours early. You can always FTC if done early. If not, no problem. All butts are different, but at that temp I would allow for 2 hours per lb. you can always bump up the temp to shorten the cook time.

Moosebranch

Its my first time doing a butt tonight too.....sounds odd lol

To kind of keep on subject without starting a new discussion, can the butt go straight from the fridge to the Egg or does it need to be room temp...or sit out for like an hour?

Thanks 

Cookbook_Chip

Like all have said, no worries! I have done mine with egg temp flying all over as I learned, and 235F all day and turbo 280F for 8-9 hours. Every time was delicious if internal pork hit 200F. Yum!

jeffgrice

So far so good. The temperature alarm woke me up at 4am, so I had to get up and open the lower vent a little more to bring the temperature back up. The meat has been on now for nearly 9 hours and it is sitting at 182*. I'm thinking of increasing the dome temp to speed thing up now.