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Butt = Brisket?

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edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
Fellow eggers,[p] I plan to do a boston butt today in a similar fashion as the brisket I egg'd two weeks ago. I will smoke for ~ 2 hours, wrap in foil in drip pan for ~2 hours and then remove for remaining 2 hours. The brisket was excellent. Will this not work for the Butt?
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  • Kelly Keefe
    Kelly Keefe Posts: 471
    Hubbq,
    Uh, depends. How big is the pork butt? I usually figure 2 hours per pound indirect at 225°. Not sure about wrapping it in foil. Butt is very fatty compared to brisket. You want to render as much of the collegen out as possible.[p]Kelly
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  • BBQBluesStringer
    BBQBluesStringer Posts: 398
    Hubbq,
    Nope. Butt<>brisket. Cooking butt is like cooking a pot roast. You have to cook it forever to decompose the callogen and give it that stringy, fall off the bone, texture. I just did a 7lb butt for 17 hours, and I literally had to dump it off the v-rack. I could not pick it up without it falling apart. Best pulled pork I have eaten, by the way.[p]Brisket takes a lot less time. I did one last weekend, 4 pounds as I recall, in 7 or 8 hours. It was not stringy, fall off the bone tender (no bone anyway) but you could still cut it with a butter knife. Mine had the fat cap removed and replaced with 1/4-inch country bacon. I sliced it thin across the grain and nobody complained.[p]Best bet with a butt is to stabilize your egg at the right cooking temperature and smoke it overnight. I know, being an old offset firebox guy myself, it seems impossible that you can leave a cooker unattended for that long, but I do it routinely now. Took a bit of getting used to... now I sleep a lot better and eat a lot better (get fatter) too.[p]BBS-
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    BBQBluesStringer,
    I appreciate the input. I decided to go without the pseudobrisket-foilwrap method and just smoked for ~4 hours and cooked for another 5 hours. This 8# butt was the best I've had (limited experience). The bone pulled out with ease and the meat separated to the sound of a large bass drum. Yet, I see myself doing the all-night thing soon...
    Hubbq[p]

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  • BBQBluesStringer
    BBQBluesStringer Posts: 398
    Hubbq,
    Glad it worked out for you. What was the internal temperature when you pulled it off?
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