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Anyone tried Bobby Flay's pulled pork recipe from BBQ Addiction?

kthacher
kthacher Posts: 155
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I have Flay's BBQ Addiction book, and it contains a recipe for smoked pulled pork.  You can find the recipe here.  Has anyone tried this who can provide feedback on how it turned out?

By the way, here is a quote from the book re the BGE.

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  • BYS1981
    BYS1981 Posts: 2,533
    edited July 2014
    Everyone crying about him not calling it a big green egg on his TV show can now quit crying.
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  • kthacher
    kthacher Posts: 155
    This recipe is on now, and it violates all the conventional wisdom here. It is sitting over a water pan.  It has a relatively complex (ancho laden) rub.  It is being basted with a North Carolina BBQ sauce, and this is a tiny 3.5 lb butt.  The recipe calls for it to be pulled at 175 degrees.  I believe that most here pull at 210 or so?  Any thoughts on whether I should ignore the recipe and leave it on longer?
    Winnipeg, Canada
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  • danv23
    danv23 Posts: 956
    175 sounds wayyyyyy too low.  I pull @ 195 every time.

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  • AmericanFlannel
    AmericanFlannel Posts: 131
    I only do below 200 if I am restless and impatient. I find 205 is the magic number. 175 sounds like chunked pork temp.
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  • ads75
    ads75 Posts: 391
    kthacher said:
    This recipe is on now, and it violates all the conventional wisdom here. It is sitting over a water pan.  It has a relatively complex (ancho laden) rub.  It is being basted with a North Carolina BBQ sauce, and this is a tiny 3.5 lb butt.  The recipe calls for it to be pulled at 175 degrees.  I believe that most here pull at 210 or so?  Any thoughts on whether I should ignore the recipe and leave it on longer?
    See this recent thread about chopped verse pulled pork. I cannot recommend either way.


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  • ChokeOnSmoke
    ChokeOnSmoke Posts: 1,942
    edited July 2014

    No way you're pulling pork at 175º.  195º-200º is best in my opinion.  Bobby Flay is pretty well know for not knowing much about cooking "BBQ meats".
    Packerland, Wisconsin

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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,833
    175 is fine for slicing or chopped. If you want to pull it you need to take it until it probes like buttah.
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  • henapple
    henapple Posts: 16,025
    I take tv cook's advice and recipes with a grain of salt. No reason to prep the day before and if you can pull before 180 you've got a magic butt. I knew a girl once with a magi....never mind.
    Green egg, dead animal and alcohol. The "Boro".. TN 
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200

    Oh wow! A pulled pork recipe that only takes 5 hours? I'm so in. Roll eyes.

    That guy does love his ancho and chile de arbol, that's for sure.

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  • kthacher
    kthacher Posts: 155
    Griffin said:

    Oh wow! A pulled pork recipe that only takes 5 hours? I'm so in. Roll eyes.

    That guy does love his ancho and chile de arbol, that's for sure.


    The five hours had me worried, but at only 3.5 pounds, I thought maybe the timing would work out. I was forced to pull at 175 after 7.5 hours or so. My hope was to get to the 195 to 205 range as suggested here. So I never ended up with proper pulled pork, even though the meal was still good. Next time I ignore Flay.
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200
    kthacher said:
     Next time I ignore Flay.
    Good idea.

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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
    The recipe sounds good but I agree with others that there is no way you are "shredding with tongs" at 175 IT. 

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,833
    Maybe he meant 175* C???  :-?

    Not sure how you would get to that temp though, especially if you're running your smoker at the 225*-250* temps he says.
    They/Them
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