First ever cook and taste of pulled pork

Can't believe someone with the nickname MooOink has not ever eaten pulled pork till recently. Well. At least now you've tried it and know what you've been missing.

But how do you know how good yours is with nothing to compare it too. Aah Haa!! Go to your local chain eatery and order a pulled pork sandwich. You will then reappreciate how good that pulled pork is out of your FEC 120.

Enjoy all that pulled pork. Oh...and if you want to take it up a notch, add Smokin's Finishing sauce. It's a great compliment to pulled pork.

I've taken a frozen packet of pulled pork out of my freezer and am once again making Carnitas with it. Here's what I did with some of the pulled pork a couple weeks ago:

"I followed Padre's suggestion and threw the smoked pulled pork into a pan with Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil...very healthy and tasty. Let the pork sit in the pan without turning it. Crispy on one side, moist and soft on the other. Sea salt, pepper, garlic, cumin, and oregano sprinkled onto the pork. Once it started to crisp on one side, I mixed in some bitter orange Goyo." You can use olive oil instead of the grapeseed oil and skip the orange Goyo to make it simple. Inspiration came from Big Mike.

I guess Pags, it's hard to imagine that some people haven't tried pulled pork, let alone good pulled pork. It's hard to believe, but I still meet people who think pulled pork is only good from a crock pot. When I tell them I smoke mine they are amazed and then hooked after they try it. I run into this a lot and it just proves to me that west coasters just don't know what good BBq is. It's kind of like when I lived in South Dakota. People there thought good Mexican food was served at a place called Taco John's. They used ground hamburger in everything. Seriously? My first hint should have been the name "Taco John's". Don't they know its spelled and pronounced "Juan" Do real Mexicans even know what ground hamburger is? But I digress...Congrats MooOink! You're well on your way to discovering a whole new world. Wait to you try something really crazy, like Smoked Meatloaf.

Mmmm... Smoked Meatloaf... I hope you realize you just made me put that on the menu for this weekend.

MooOink
If you don't have a vacuum sealer, you need one! Pork freezes great. With just two of you, one butt will last a while (or at least until all of your new friends come knocking)!

Back in 1995 I was shopping at K-Mart and came across a Brinkman stick burner marked down to $99. Home it went.

Up till then, the only brisket I'd eaten was Corned Beef or BBQ chopped brisket from the freezer case. Given July 4th was just around the corner, I decided to try smoking a brisket. Don't recall where I got the brisket but it was large....15 lbs or so. Did a little reading (no internet, no forums) The game plan was to build a fire (had a wood pile of mixed hardwoods) which I did in the middle of the night..and to maintain a temp of 225. The brisket went on at 4am - no trimming (didn't know better) and seasoned with salt & pepper.

The reading material said the brisket is done when it feels like Jell-O. Huh??? I nursed the fire, watching the temps go up and down every 30 minutes. Anyone with a brinkman knows what I mean

About 5 pm the moment arrived...the brisket jiggled like Jell-O. Off it came, onto a cutting board and I began slicing. The bark was dark as coal but the meat was oozing juices and the meat cut like butter. About 8 of us ate the 1st real BBQ I had ever cooked. I was hooked from that day on and don't think I've eaten a finer brisket.

Good story, thanks for sharing.

The funny thing is, MANY people think Pulled Pork is supposed to be that oversauced, overcooked, sloppy joe type of stuff.

Real PP (or fresh BBQ) is hard to beat.

Yep,probably the reason folks write Angus on their pork hotdogs?

Here's my deeee licious pulled pork photos, sorry for the delay.