Pork butt/pork shoulder

Harleydog77

Hi,
I am a new egg owner. I'd like to try a pork butt. I was at the grocery store tonight and I saw that pork shoulder was on sale. Is pork butt and pork shoulder the same thing?

Sun Devil Brett

I've got two butts on right now, (cooking much quicker than I had hoped). This is how it was explained to me, a shoulder consists of two parts, the butt and the picnic. The picnic tasting a little more like a ham. You can treat both the same way for cooking. On the picnic cut the skin and most of the fat off and treat as a butt cook. I am cooking two butts that I got from costco. On the package it said pork shoulder. If it's a picnic it will usually say. Both end up tasting tasty. My 2 cents. Brett

Harleydog77

Thanks for the info. The pork butt was on sale for 1.99 per pound. what are they charging at costco?

Sun Devil Brett

1.79 a lb. The best I can remember was about a buck a lb. So you figure 14-16 lbs. (two in a package) for less than twenty bones. Good food for many.