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One shoulder or two?
It won't take any more time to do a second one. We need all the meat, but it freezes well.
What do you guys think? One butt or two?
T
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You answered your own question. Do two.Molly
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Personally, I don't care for reheated butts. I wish I could cook a 2-3 lb butt in half the time, but I tried that and it took just as long as a 7-8 pounder. At least that way, there's less reheated pork to suffer through.
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Try a fast & hot cook, it yields a nice cook. 8# in 6 hrs.
Kent -
350°?, Higher?
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Sorry... 400° dome, indirect drip pan. I didn't tent mine and the bark was a bit dark but man that was pretty darn good. Thrideye told me towards the end if the bark is developing too much then loosely tent over the butt.
Details are below.
Kent
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Fast & quick,
Put some rub on the butt and injected with apple juice and apple cider vinegar mix. I wish I had not put the cider in the injection as I have never done that before on the L&S cooks. I expect there will be a taste difference.
8# Boston Butt
At 0:00 hours and egg stabilized the grid is at 370° and the dome is about 400°.
3:17 hrs butt reached 171°
3:46 hrs - 181°
4:47 hrs – 191°
5:21 hrs – 192°
6:00 – 193/194° meat grid at 367° - I pulled
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Thanks, Kent. I will have to pick up a 4-5 pounder, cut it in half and try that method. If it takes a realistic amount of time, I might even have butt more often - with less waste (or inferior reheats).
Last butt I cooked, I'm guessing I threw out a couple of pounds, maybe more. Kept it in the fridge, but the reheats were so bad, I didn't bother to freeze any. Just threw it out.I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Kent:
Tell me, WAS there a difference in taste with the cider vinegar injected?
I have a constant taker for pork butts so I can whip them out frequently with this method. Makes it so sweet!Judy in San Diego -
I have not kept it more than a couple of days in the fridge, but when I reheat it, I steam it in a covered ricer and it doesn't taste like a reheat. Now, I don't like it nuked in the microwave and I don't care for it reheated in the oven. But, the leftovers don't last long around my house.
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There is my wife and I here and I too end up cooking too much. If you end up having left overs here is a great way to save the refrigerated or frozen left overs.
Take the meat and add about 12oz of coke or dr. pepper. Not diet versions - not sure why but that's what I have always read.
The amount of liquid you add will depend on how much you are cooking, so add small then increase until it has the moisture you want.
When heated you won't taste the pop and the meat will be moist.
Second method is to make some bbq sandwiches something like KFC and other chains offer.
Take your left overs and your favorite bbq sauce (I still add a little coke), mix and cook.
I thought they were nuts, but the grand kids said it is some of the best they have eaten. I use Sweet Baby Ray's Original and some cheap burger buns. Pretty good bbq sandwich.
Kent -
Thanks for the tip, I have not thought of steaming...
GG -
I did not like the cider vinegar at all. I left out the cider and went with AJ then tried some AJ and white vinegar. That was pretty darn good.
Now I don't inject...
Kent -
Like they always say 2 is always better than 1. Good luck either way.
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Can't recall if I have tried steaming. Will have to give that a try.
I have nuked it, reheated in a sauce pan (with and without sauce), wrapped in foil in the oven and even tried coke in a saucepan. The coke version was the worst (sorry, Kent - it was awful!!!).
For me, the only sauce for pulled pork is the vinegar-based eastern NC style. I would never use SBR or similar.
I'm hopeful that a high temp cook of a 2-3 lb butt will work well. Then, there will BE no leftovers. :laugh:I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelCentral Connecticut -
Kent, this help couldn't have come at a better time. I'm being highly solicited to keep turning them out...so we'll try Kent's Kool Butt!Judy in San Diego
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Kent, we have similar tastes, with Coke and Sweet Baby Ray's, but I have also used Scott's vinegary sauce and sprinkled in more rub (Raging River is my current favorite) and gotten rave reviews.Judy in San Diego
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No SBR.. Well... hooty snooty eh. :laugh:
Coke, I used small amount of liquid with the meat and couldn't taste any flavor at all.
"a high temp cook of a 2-3 lb butt" I am not sure on smaller size butts.
It will be interesting to learn your results.
Kent -
Be creative with the left over pork
As one idea, I make a chili verde sauce and then throw in the left over pork to heat up.....great over rice or in a burrito -
Got to love raging river.... ummmmmmmm. I'm with you on that. That I know of, I haven't tried vinegar based rubs. Something new in my future I guess.
Kent -
:woohoo: :woohoo: "Kent's Kool Butt!" That's a scary mental picture. :laugh:
Looking forward to hearing the results.
Kent -
Kent, you really should try it. I got a couple of bottles from my Secret Santa Avocados, and I already had a few bottles left from a case I'd bought previously. I loved it on my eggs for breakfast. Anyway, it is perfect with pork...not sweet and thick like a standard tomato-based sauce, but I'd call it piquant with a kick.Judy in San Diego
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Now your are talking, Avacado's with most anything sounds darn good to me.
It would be great if someone would come up with a program so we could send samples of stuff through email.
Kent -
I hope Barry (Avocados) is watching, because he'd get a kick out of the mention. BTW, he made absolutely delicious wings at the after-party at the Sunshine State Fest in Melbourne, FL. They were made indirect at 225°. Now we're WAAAAY OT!Judy in San Diego
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I never do one if only because they come two to a cryovac. It freezes well. Folks will be happy to take some home. Finance wise your using the same amount of lump for two as one.
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Well, two it is! One is 8.80 the other is 8.40. Not sure if I could have picked two any closer together in size.
I'll most likely start them tonight/tomorrow morning at like midnight.
I've only cooked them indirect without tenting. My last one, a 7lber took about 12.5 hours at 250. A person, whom I trust, said I should cook them indirect at 230 until plateau, and then wrap 'em in foil, and cook (still indirect) the rest of the way in the foil.
This will supposedly speed up the cooking process towards the end.
Any opinions?
Thanks again,
Ted -
Some day I want to get to the FL fest, or any fest out that way for that matter.
I don't think I have ever done a good chicken wing... but I'll keep try'n.
Kent -
No foil... just cook em, they will turn out great. I plan on 1.15 to 1.5 hrs /pound on the largest one.
GG
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