Dr Pepper as injection in Pork Butt?

 
Hey Bob,

I have played around with injections a little and am often surprised how little flavor they add unless they are very flavorful to begin with. I like Dr. Pepper and think it would work fine as an injection for pork. I'm not so sure you would get any significant flavor from it in it's "natural" state. Richard's recipe sounds great and you could inject it as well as use it as a marinade. I highly recommend doing both and use the same marinade for both. You will get more flavor from the marinade that way. HERE is a link to some flank steaks I injected and marinated recently that came out very well. My marinate was strong and I injected the day lights out of the steaks with it and marinated for about 24 hours on top of that. This is the one time I have gotten great flavor from the marinade. HERE is a pork roast that I injected and was surprised the injection didn't come out stronger in the end. It was still good just much more subtle.

I don't know if you could simmer the Dr. Pepper down to concentrate it or not. I do not know how the sugar and other flavors will react to high heat. You might experiment with some and see what happens when it is simmered or boiled down to the point where it really concentrates the flavor. You could also put some in a spray bottle (concentrated or not???) and spray/mist the butt while it cooks. Just some thoughts.

Good luck and keep us posted, I would be interested to hear how and what you do.

Gator

 

Hi Bob-DR. Pepper is an option but not ideal-
heres your best recipie:

24-48hr. marinade

1cup bourbon whiskey
1 1/4 cup "moores" or "dales"
2 1/4 cup white vinager
1/4 cup pickle juice
2 tblspn preferred dry rub
3 tblspoon whole peppercorns
1 stalk rosemary

Marinade minimum 24hrs. maximum 48hrs. prior to smokeing
smoke in cooking pan in marinade
Cook @ 195 1 hr/per lb.

Try it out-Let me know what you think!