About to rub a pork shoulder to smoke overnight tomorrow for Saturday lunch. This piece has the bone in and the skin on. Do I want to take the skin off or leave it on? Also if left on do I score? Help please! ???
I would take it off.
Take it off and give it a dollar!!
The choice for me when I smoke a shoulder is this. Do I want more bark/smoke flavor or do I want more succulence. I probably tend to keep it on more often than take it off. But I've only cooked one in 5 years I guess. I can't find them around here much anymore - I guess today's homogenized and pasteurized society doesn't like to see dead hog skin! Leaving the skin on a shoulder if the same reason people do whole hogs. You don't get the bark, but you sure do get some meat that is high on mouth feel and carnivorous satisfaction.
Ended up taking it off. What a pain. Was confused at first until I looked at the label and realized that it was a picnic instead of a butt. Goes in the smoker tonight after work for tomorrow lunch. Thanks for the responses!
Now that you took it off, cut it up and fry it !
Pork skins, Yum!