Sundown Recommendation is Top Picnic in Wisconsin

wdan

@!#$@# Egg could feed an army, yada, yada, yada.[p]A coule of observations:
1. Yield was a bit less than a butt due to more bone and "dat tick hide" still on the outside of it.[p]2. One of the things that distinguishes it from the butt is that it contains some of that meat that one might equate to "dark meat" as on a fowl. This makes for a great total sampling of pig without the whole carcass being involved. For purely pork on the plate dinners, definitely use a picnic. If you're serving sandwiches on the cheapest buns money can buy, mix picnic with butt, and/or load up your BGE with as many picnics that will fit on it![p]Thanks again Sundown, for just another insight into the world of "the other white meat."

Rumrunner

WDAN, yes the Picnic is good..also a tad wastier than the Butt. Sweeter meat, too.[p]If you happen to see Pork Collars or Pork Cushion Meat, pick them up and try them for pulled pork. The Collar is from the area of the neck where the shoulder joins and is boneless. The Cushion, from the big muscle on the Picnic, is lean and may need to be wrapped with bacon before cooking to prevent drying out. What could be better than pork on pork????

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Wise One

WDAN, now you're starting a new flame war over which is the better: the Boston Butt or the Wisconsin Picnic. Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that red sauce is better than yellow sauce..or that hickory smoke is better than pecan smoke. Careful now, you could be ruining my prejudices. :-)

fishlessman

WDAN,
the boston butts i find are great for mass quantities, i havent found one with the bone in and it must effect the flavor. picnics are great, a little more waste, but good with a sideof beans. save the bone for soups

Sundown

Rumrunner,
Dang your eyes! Don't do these things to me . . . PLEASE . . . ! Everytime you suggest to "off the wall cuts" I wander in to my local meat market and ask for them. Ususally, I get some poor soul that "just came to work from the produce deprtment" ands hasn't clue one what I'm talking about. Still it's a lot of fun to try to talk them into getting someone out front that can talk to me. Now, you remember my recent email about a butchers school? Why can't we have the Rumrunner School of Butchering and Fine Meat Cutting? Cater only to ceramic cooking people and have special classes for coots and geezers.

Rumrunner

Sundown, I wish I was 20 years younger I've got so many fingers in the fire and projects on hold, I don't think they'll ever all get done :(

RRP

Rumrunner, LOL - that's like me too! I recently bought a Porter Cable pneumatic brad gun along with an assortment of 16,000 brads. Sign me "old fart with 15,988 brads to use before I have to reorder or buy the farm, whichever comes first".