Pork Belly Burnt Ends

Skims_Smokehouse

Pork Belly Burnt Ends

Egg indirect with air gapped drip pan - 250°F
Hickory chunks
Eggspander system
4-ish hour cook time
No rest time 

I placed the hickory below the lump charcoal for this cook.

While the egg is pre-heating, slice 4-5lbs of pork belly into 1" cubes.
Heavily season with your favorite sugar based seasoning.  I used Meat Church VooDoo.
Make sure there's an air gap between the drip pan and the Conveggtor.  Small balls of tinfoil works fine here.
Place the cubes, fat side up, into the egg.  Try to leave a bit of a gap between each. 

Smoke at 250°F for two hours, then bump up to 275°F one more hour.  Done is bronze color and probe tender.  Start checking on it only after about the first 2 hours.
Remove from the egg and place all pieces in a single baking pan.  Slather and stir in the BBQ sauce mixture, making sure each cube is covered.  Place the pan into the 270°F egg and glaze for 30-40 minutes.
Remove and serve.

BBQ Sauce mixture:

I just eyeballed this.  You just want to cover each cube, not create a braise.

roughly this:
1 cup Sweet Baby Ray's Honey BBQ sauce
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup F.N. Hot Habanero pepper jelly

Taste this and balance with more or less of the ingredients to your liking.
Warm the mixture in the microwave for 30 seconds and stir.
I got strong accolades on this! The pepper jelly is not over powering, but gives it a sweet heat.
Let me know how yours turn out.

Shopping List:

4-5 lbs. of pork belly.  (I bought a whole slab from Costco and halved it)
Meat Church VooDoo (or Sugar Based BBQ rub )
Sweet Baby Ray's Honey BBQ
Honey
F.N. Hot Habanero Pepper Jelly
Hickory Chunks
Foil drip pan
Foil baking pan

Photo Egg

Looks fantastic!
Great post, thanks 

kl8ton

Nice work.  Pics. Recipe. Thread filed in appropriate sub-category.  The only thing missing is an engaging backstory of how you were raised and what this recipe means to you and your family.  :-)

Skims_Smokehouse

kl8ton said:

Nice work.  Pics. Recipe. Thread filed in appropriate sub-category.  The only thing missing is an engaging backstory of how you were raised and what this recipe means to you and your family.  :-)

Ha! Thanks! I honestly thought through the format of this.  I noticed that when I am looking at a web recipe, it's kind of like 3 stages.  "How do I cook X food?"  Once I settle on a recipe, I make a shopping list.  Once I'm ready to cook, I look at the steps.

I formatted this in how I feel like I would like to see and revisit a recipe. The shopping list is last because I only visit it once.  The steps are before the ingredients because I might like to keep referring to them during the cook. If I've done the recipe before, I might just want a quick refresher on the Green Egg setup, so that's very first.


My back story on this is as follows: I grew up without a Green Egg.  My dad had to grill on a gas grill up hill in the snow both ways.  You had to chew for a week just to swallow his steaks.  Years later, I saw a bunch of people making these on YouTube, and I wanted some.  

AprèsSki

Thank you, one of the best posts I've seen in a while. Welcome

Aquaticdoc

Well, first try using this technique wound up at 2 hrs, starting a little under 200° and ending at 270°. Chunk sizes mostly were 1" x 1.5" to start. I wound up with tiny black lumps of very tough chunks of former pork belly, none larger than 0.5" x 1.25". For the most part, temps were ± 250°. So basically trash.

I used my indirect plate setter legs down, my Eggspander rack on top, and didn't check until 2 hrs. That was a mistake, for sure, but my BGE front thermometer never went above 275° except perhaps during the last 30 min. Any thoughts? I didn't bother with a photo as small black lumps look pretty much like any other small black lumps.

Legume

Sounds like therm was off maybe. Even running at 275 the whole time, you shouldn't have ended up with meteorites. Sugar rubs won't burn until 350ish and 1" cubes of belly will take a long time to render. Larger even longer.

dbCooper

Can you clarify your indirect setup.  The way it reads to me, you put a grid loaded with cubes directly on top of the inverted plate setter. 

* edit to tag @Aquaticdoc