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Testing direct pork butt, small BGE.
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Bozzy
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I traveled for business this week. Got home at midnight Friday night and my wife had packed for our weekend trip to a friend's cabin near Jamestown, TN. We left at 6:30am this morning.
She's riding in the WMA with her friend and I am to stay home, BBQ, watch the Aggies (Whoop!), and drink beer. She knew our friend had a Big Green Egg so my wife packed all the BBQ fixings and thawed a 5 lb. butt from a hog we had processed in the fall.
We arrive and I start to prep the butt and go to light the Egg and realize it's a small, with only a cast iron grate, no plate setter, no pizza stone. So I've rigged a pseudo indirect by using a small pan in which I have created a rack to keep the butt out of the grease using rolled up foil. However, it's really a direct setup so I'm going to do a turbo around 325/350 until > 165 internal then drop the temp until just before dinner.
Will post pictures or at least results.
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Looking forward to see how this turns out.
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LBGE,SBGE, and a Mini makes three......Sweet home Alabama........ Stay thirsty my friends .
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Can't wait to see the pics. I did similar with a turkey breast. Are you putting liquid in your pan? I didn't at first but noticed the drippings burning because of direct contact of fire and pan so I added chicken stock and water-----------------------------------------analyze adapt overcome2008 -Large BGE. 2013- Small BGE and 2015 - Mini. Henderson, Ky.
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Sounds like good improvisation! I am sure it will be fine. LIke Mattman said you may need to do something about the pork fat drippings. Another idea is to throw a bunch of onions in the pan. Good luck!Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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Internal hit 165 @ 3:45 pm when Aggies lead at the end of the first quarter 14-7. Shut down egg to see if I can get it to 220-250.
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Great audible-once you know the game plan then the execution is easy. Enjoy the weekend and great eats!
Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. -
I'm also interested to see how this comes out.2-XLs ,MM,blackstone,Ooni koda 16,R&V works 8.5 gallon fryer,express smoker and 40" smoking cajun
scott
Greenville Tx -
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@Bozzy is probably lost to the world drowning his sorrows because of the outcome of the game...
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San Antonio, TX
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Up here in the cabin with little/no cell reception, my phone had no juice for pictures. So here it is in words....After the roller-coaster of a ride and a very exciting and close 4th quarter, I set to pulling the pork. The butt was nicely done and the foil grid I placed in the pan to keep the butt out of the grease worked as desired. The butt was juicy and minus a few tough spots it pulled very easily. It had a nice smoke ring.The cabin owner and I hogged most of the smoky outer chunks while everyone else had pulled pork on buns.Overall, I'm very satisfied with the butt and may even do a turbo butt indirect at home as another test.Put butt on (direct in a pan with foil "logs" to keep it out of grease" at 11:00 at 350Flipped fat side down at 2pmat 3:45 the internal had hit 165 so I backed the egg off as much as I couldRemoved it from the egg at 6pm and the internal was 185Pulled it after a 45 minute rest in foilSorry for the lack of pictures.
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Foghorn said:@Bozzy is probably lost to the world drowning his sorrows because of the outcome of the game...Whoop!
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Here is your chance to show your friends how the egg really works and how the food should really taste. Go get em! Have fun.Large, small, and a mini
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Dealing with what you had like that is awesome. Not sure what I would have done without a PS.They/Them
Morgantown, PA
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