Since getting my CS a month ago, I have turned out some good pulled pork using the CS Rib Rub. I want to make my own rub this weekend... Any suggestions on a great (easy to make) rub for pork butts?
Well, I'll look up my rubs for butts, but here's some more suggestions from Pork Butt 101 (which you get to from the guide page at the top of the page).
There are three parts. You're new to the forum, but these get rave reviews from those who've tried it.
This is a GREAT basic mop for pork.
Feel free to doctor it up, but you have to post your recipe here I have no idea where this originated, I got it and modified it after someone else modified it... so here it is to enjoy for all.
I use this on pulled pork starting about 1/2 way through cooking (after the smoke stops).
Mop this on the pork warm. I've also used this on the meat when it's done -- I just spoon some sauce over pulled pork right on the bun.
Smokin Okie's Pulled Pork Baste & Serving Sauce
(makes about 5 cups)
4 cups apple juice 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce 4 tablespoons cider vinegar 2 tablespoon dry mustard 4 tablespoon brown sugar 3 bay leaf 6 cloves of garlic 2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon cayenne (I sometimes use Hungarian Paprika) 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves (the secret ingredient) Heat all of the ingredients in a nonreactive pan (the acid in the vinegar will react with some pans be careful) Bring it to a boil, reduce and simmer for 15 min.
I make extra and put it in the fridge and it should last for a couple of months. But it's never around that long.
When I put some pork in food saver bags, I'll put some of this sauce in there with it -- when I reheat the pork it taste just like the first time.
This is a great sauce for pulled pork and after the initial laughs from people who have never heard of mustard based sauce (uh, can you say, get out and travel...) you find this is great.
Feel free to doctor it up (add more heat) but my request is always the same, post your improvements here for us to share... I'm still looking for great rubs, sauces, mops, bastes, finishing sauces......
A friend gave me this recipe, if you know where it's from, I'd like to thank them... I'm told this is a Piedmont Sauce Most mustard sauce come from the east of the Carolina'/Georgia (as opposed to the tomato sauce from Lexington)
Smokin'Okie's Virgin Mustard Sauce (virgin for you first time mustard sauce people)
4 cups yellow mustard 1 cup lemon juice 1 cup honey 1/2 cup cider vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cayenne
that's it, combine, boil, simmer, eat. Enjoy and let me know how you like it. Good Q'in
Okay Gang, Our last adventure today in Pulled Pork is a Vinegar Based Sauce. I've used this as a baste/mop, as a finishing sauce (finishing to me is putting the sauce on during the last hour) and also a serving sauce. Kick up the heat a notch in this one if you like:
Smokin Okies Vinegar Mop for Pulled Pork
(also called an Eastern Carolina Sauce)
2 cups cider vinegar 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed) 2 tablespoons salt (I like the flavor in Kosher/Sea Salt and bigger granules) 2 tablespoon red pepper (crushed) 1 teaspoon cayenne (I've also used Hungarian Paprika) Don't need to cook this sauce, just combine, let sit overnight. Put this on your Butt, it'll go wild.
To find out what you may or may not like, start out like this - half cup brown sugar, quarter cup pickling salt, and 1 tsp. of any spice you think you might want or like on it. Rub liberally with canola oil first, then rub liberally with the rub. Next time try a different combination of spices.
Thanks Smokin.. I feel pretty good about smoking the butt.. my first 3 went great.. I am interested in finding some good simple rubs.. by the way.. Great job on the forum!
A very good rub can be ordered from www.texasbbqrub.com. You cannot beat Smokin Okie's Pulled Pork Baste & Serving Sauce. I mix it with the pork as I'm pulling and then refrigerate, it gets better overnight. When ready to serve I reheat it in a steamer insert for one of my pots, this keeps it nice and moist while heating. Dump into a bowl, apply a litte more of Smokin's serving sauce and get ready for the compliments.
Thanks Smokin, got to give credit where credit is due. Since I've started using your sauce I get rave reviews, including a local restaurant owner (Not BBQ)born and raised in GA that has twice told me it's the best he has ever had in his life.
I've been smoking butts for some time with no rub and a vinegar based sauce. I thought they were good until I tried the following rub: 2 parts Cookshack Spicy Chicken Rub, 1 part granulated garlic and 1 part brown sugar. Refrigerate overnight and smoke with pecan wood until done. I'll be ordering the 5lb jug of Chicken Rub soon. Gotta restock.
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ok at the risk of giving away the family farm here is the rub i started with. of course i have tweaked it some over a two year period but i will tell you where to start. but if you ever see 2 Greyhounds here for goodness sakes don't tell her or i am dead meat!!!take a pad of paper to barnes and nobles and find the book barbecue bible sauces rubs and marinades by steven raichlen, turn to page 24 and start writting. this recipe was a good starting place for me and from it you can tweak it however your tastes run. hope this helps jack 2 Greyhounds....SMOKIN!!!!
New poster here.......I currently have a gas smoker and have enoyed this forum site a lot. I have a suggestion about any mop or wet marinade that uses salt/soy sauce/worcestershire. Try adding nuoc mam, fish sauce, instead. The best is the Vietnamese nuoc mam.
There is an unbelievable flavor explosion from using nuoc mam in almost anything. My wife can't stand it, but I always use it and just don't tell her. She loves it on all meats. Used judiciously, there is no discernable odor.
I use 1:1 nuoc mam to cider vinegar plus lots of garlic, pepper, cayenne, etc. It is a great wet brine and works fabulously as a jerky marinade--cross between biltong and jerky flavor. I believe this is a secret ingredient in Slim Jim's!
I can't resist posting a recipe for JJ's Rub from the BGE website.
There is some controversy about this rub as to whether JJ plagarized it from another source and added an ingredient or two to make it seem original. And, I may have posted about this rub before- but, I find this great on pork butts and ribs, and brisket, and not to shabby on chicken.
I do not use much salt in any of my rubs. Salt is supposed to pull moisture to the surface of meat and may make it less crusty! The aroma from the CS while food cooks with this rub is awesome.
Also, if you do not have time for an overnight marinade with this rub, food tastes good if you put it on shortly before the cook. I rub the food with yellow mustard prior to putting on the JJ's Rub. Another "pearl" is to oven dry your brown sugar before putting it in the rub if it is moist or lumpy.
And, it's fun to make! Here goes:
Ingredients:
� 5 tablespoons dark brown sugar � 1 � teaspoons ground coriander � 4 tablespoons paprika � 1 � teaspoons ground savory � 1 tablespoon rosemary � 1 � teaspoons dried thyme � 4 teaspoons onion powder � 1 � teaspoons ground black pepper � 4 teaspoons garlic powder � 1 � teaspoons white pepper � 4 teaspoons dry mustard � � teaspoon ground cumin � 3 teaspoons dried sweet basil � Salt to taste � 2 teaspoons ground bay leaves (If you can't find ground use whole)
Preparation Directions:
� Place all ingredients into a food processor and blend. If you use whole bay leaves blend until leaves are pulverized. � Rub meat and cover with saran wrap. � Marinade over night in fridge. Allow to come to room temperature and place in smoker.
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