5th butt, best yet (pics)

CoalCreek

Cold night to be tooling around outside (right around 2 or 3 above), but got a 7 lb boneless on around 11:30pm regardless. She was still frozen in the middle, so it took a few extra hours overall. But thickest, best, crunchiest bark yet by a long shot! Was rubbed with mustard and bone suckin rub. Sat in 2 parts apple 1 part hickory smoke overnight steady at about 255 until reaching an IT of 175 around 10am, where I kicked it up to 330 to power through for kickoff. Yanked at 202 and pulled and plated immediately. The result was just fantastic, tender, juicy, melt in your mouth pulled pork. Only complaint is a touch too heavy on the hickory flavor for my taste. Just a touch. That 14 lb packer you see in the fridge is up next. Happy Sunday

Ps. Found this when cleaning out the egg before firing her up. Looks and feels like a rock. Any ideas? BGE lump. Checked the firebox and fire ring, no chunks of ceramic missing, everything's intact. Idk.

jcaspary

Looks really good. The rock came from the lump more than likely.

NPHuskerFL

You have one fine looking butt! :-\"
The rock? Likely from the lump from the kiln process. No biggie. Solid cook!!!

TQB

That looks great!!!!!

theyolksonyou

Love me some pulled pork! You'll find rocks in every brand occasionally. They are either from the kiln or embedded in the trunks of the trees.

CoalCreek

Good to know!

boochsr71

nice!

GoVols

Looks great !

500

Lookin' good.  I'm gonna go pull mine right now.

AUCE

CoalCreek said:

Cold night to be tooling around outside (right around 2 or 3 above), but got a 7 lb boneless on around 11:30pm regardless. She was still frozen in the middle, so it took a few extra hours overall. But thickest, best, crunchiest bark yet by a long shot! Was rubbed with mustard and bone suckin rub. Sat in 2 parts apple 1 part hickory smoke overnight steady at about 255 until reaching an IT of 175 around 10am, where I kicked it up to 330 to power through for kickoff. Yanked at 202 and pulled and plated immediately. The result was just fantastic, tender, juicy, melt in your mouth pulled pork. Only complaint is a touch too heavy on the hickory flavor for my taste. Just a touch. That 14 lb packer you see in the fridge is up next. Happy Sunday

Ps. Found this when cleaning out the egg before firing her up. Looks and feels like a rock. Any ideas? BGE lump. Checked the firebox and fire ring, no chunks of ceramic missing, everything's intact. Idk.

What's it taste like?

cook861

Nice pulled pork. The rock is a keep sake from the BGE 

Jeepster47

That's one of those glacier rocks that's simply trying to find it's way north again.  Explored it's way down to the forests in the south, grabbed on to the bark of a tree, road out the milling process and ended up in the kiln ... then made it into the lump bag to come visit the north again. Setting it free is the right thing to do.   

CoalCreek

AUCE said:

Cold night to be tooling around outside (right around 2 or 3 above), but got a 7 lb boneless on around 11:30pm regardless. She was still frozen in the middle, so it took a few extra hours overall. But thickest, best, crunchiest bark yet by a long shot! Was rubbed with mustard and bone suckin rub. Sat in 2 parts apple 1 part hickory smoke overnight steady at about 255 until reaching an IT of 175 around 10am, where I kicked it up to 330 to power through for kickoff. Yanked at 202 and pulled and plated immediately. The result was just fantastic, tender, juicy, melt in your mouth pulled pork. Only complaint is a touch too heavy on the hickory flavor for my taste. Just a touch. That 14 lb packer you see in the fridge is up next. Happy Sunday Ps. Found this when cleaning out the egg before firing her up. Looks and feels like a rock. Any ideas? BGE lump. Checked the firebox and fire ring, no chunks of ceramic missing, everything's intact. Idk.

What's it taste like?

Great overall, just a hint of bitterness that I could do without.  First time trying hickory on pork.  From now on the hickory chunks will be reserved for brisket.

1measure

Thanks for the great demo. First good butt I did was on a wsm I had to tend to all day but im looking forward to my first overnighter on my egg. I like that you keep it simple, no foil, towel, cooler.