What to do when recovering from surgery and bored

[GusRobin]

I have been recovering from cervical disk surgery that I had Friday before last. I am restricted on what I can do (can't drive, can't lift over 5 lbs.,etc). In other words I am bored out of my mind.
So yesterday I decided to smoke a pork butt that I had in the freezer. Don't worry it was a small one and after trimming it was at 5.5 lbs which I figure is close enough to the weight restrictions.
I was going to try to follow SouthernSmoked's molasses recipe but veered a bit.

So I gathered the troops. Some Dizzy Dust, jalapeno rub, and molasses for the base.


Slathered the butt with the molasses and the rub


Wrapped it up for a good night's rest


I got up at 5:30 this morning, pulled the butt out of the fridge and added a little more rub and into the Bradley at 225* and 4 hours of hickory.


Then I went back to sleep and woke up at about 8:30 to check it. Looking good.


This was a stubborn butt, it was only 5.5 lbs and was cooked by itself. Yet it took 10.5 hours. To give an example of the stall, at 10am it was 156*; at 10:42 it was 160*; at 11:26 it was 163; at 3:00 it was 171 and finally broke the stall.
Here it is ready to come out. (Notice the quality control piece missing.)


Ready to FTC.


So now I'll wait a couple of hours and we'll have pulled pork sammies, and potato salad.

[SiFumar]

That looks great!  It's good to see you doing something...but don't push it! 

[squirtthecat]

Ditto!    Better make sliders...   On a paper plate.   ;D

[Hiram]

Looks great, I'll put in a prayer request for you at church, back problems I've been there done that. I took up guitar playing to keep from going crazy, probably the only reason I'm sane today!

[ghost9mm]

Ya done good Gus, that puppie is going be some good eatin... nice bark...

[mikecorn.1]

Oh my. Wish I could of had a piece for quality control sake :)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Keymaster]

Glad your up and movin around, Thats a good sign!!! Nice lookin piglet :-X

[pikeman_95]

Gus
It sounds like you are doing rather good. I am a little slower to get glued together. They fused my lower back and I feel like Humpty Dumpty. Kind of cracked and loose and not quite glued back together yet. I just took a 15 minute walk and am kind of sore. It is going to be a while before I get to the smoker. Nice job on the pork. Take it slow and don't get into trouble moving too much at first
KC

[KyNola]

I'll bet that molasses bark had a nice ZING to it.

Good to see you up and around but take good care of yourself.

[SouthernSmoked]

Looks most Excellent!!!

[NePaSmoKer]

Looks real good there Gus.

[OU812]

Now thats a good lookin hunk of pork.

Good ta here your up moving around.

When I had my knee rebuilt I made models of muscle cars.  ::)

[muebe]

Nice job Gus! Even while you are recovering you can still make some tasty eats ;)

[Smoker John]

That pork butt looks tasty, quality control is very important

[TMB]

Well Gus why didn't you call me I would have come by and helped you get that out of the smoker  ;).  I would even help you eat it.   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D