My neighbor works for a meat processing plat. Last week we had been talking about smoking meat and other guy stuff (I am going to get pummeled). :D I gave him my opinion and told him about Bradley smokers and the forum. Three days he comes over with a 10lbs bone in pork shoulder. All he wanted was a taste. This is nice with the exception our freezer space is filled with tomatoes, brisket, pork butt and, various lunch meats (pork and beef) which we make in our crock pot. This way I keep the salt content low. I don't want to hear a word.
Friday night, I asked him and his wife to come over to watch the prep work and consume some libations. My wife prepared the rub. This time we followed the recipe for JANS RUB.
I trimmed the fat cap a little, poured on some molasses, applied the rub and finished with some yellow mustard.
Into the smoker it went, PID program set to 220F and 4 hours of hickory pucks. We talked on our deck for a couple of hours.
About 22:00hrs I noticed the IT was at 168F. I figured I had hit a fat pocket. I moved the IT probe and the IT dropped to 152F. Three hours later it was at 168F, all is well. This morning at 07:30 the IT was 183F and by 11:00 it was at 196F. We FTC'd and at 13:15 our neighbors returned and watch the show. To say the least they were impressed. My wife put some in a baggie for lunch and I vac-u-sealed 4 more 2 cup bags. We vac-u-sealed the rest and had some for today's lunch.
Sorry I do not have a picture of the final product as we got caught up in the pull! I got to get one of those 'Roman pork pullers'.
Pictures below.
The Butt as delivered.
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Nice fat.
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Ready for some love in the smoker.
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Coming out party.
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Everything happened so fast I forgot to take a picture of the final pulled butt.
O what is that on the top rack? ;D
congrats on the butts and smoke... am sure it all came out great
WOW! That's some really nice bark you got there.
You did great on that butt :)
Looks GREAT,John Thanks for sharing.
Congrats! Looks great!
Thanks for the great comments. I wish we could smoke more but like I said the freezers are full. I have discovered this is not a hobby or profession! It is a disease which cannot be cured! :o
John
Don't be dismayed. As my mentor often says, "If you can eat it, you can smoke it"!
looks great!
Quote from: JohnM70 on September 29, 2013, 08:10:52 AM
Thanks for the great comments. I wish we could smoke more but like I said the freezers are full. I have discovered this is not a hobby or profession! It is a disease which cannot be cured! :o
John
So thaw out the freezer meats and smoke em!
John,
Looks great!
Nice work.