Pork butt

Glad you had a good cook and it suited you.

How was the bark on the butt?

We use Buttrub in some applications,but since it contains no sugar,most folks add a lot of turbinado sugar with it.

It can also be a little warm,when used in the volume a butt needs.

Not sure the right way to explain it but it had a nice dark texture that sealed the butt well.

Way to go, Cooper. Good job!

Surprised to hear it was done in less than 12 hours!

Wow, 11:45 for a butt seems quick. I've only smoked 2 (gonna start my third today), and they took 21 1/2 and 26 hours each. They were in the 7.5 - 7.75 pound range, and I kept it at a constant 225˚ for the entire cook, but that is a huge time difference.

I'm planning for ~24 hour cook time tonight, so I'm going to put my but in at about 1-2 PM today, and hope to have it done in time to rest for dinner tomorrow night.

11-12 hours is about what I've experienced with all my butts.. NEVER had one go beyond that and they were ALL pullable. Never understood the long cooking times either

Hmm. I'm still pretty new to the whole pulled pork thing. I'm buying a Pork Shoulder, Boston Butt, bone in, from Sam's Club. That is the same thing as a pork but, is it not?

I'm smoking at 225˚ until the internal temp reaches 195˚. I don't have a thermometer in the smokette, so it is possible the internal temp is not staying in the 225˚ range. I smoked salmon in the past and kept accurate readings of the internal temp, every 15 minutes, and saw temperature variations that were consistent with what was expected (I think +/- 40˚, but I don't have the notes in front of me).

It is such a simple recipe and cook, I'm not sure if there is anything I could be doing wrong.

Yep, its the same. There are two parts of the shoulder that are smoked(at least relative to this conversation). The butt and the picnic. The picnic isn't used as much since some consider its taste to be "hammy".

My Smokette averages 235* when set on 250*. A large butt usually takes around 20 hours in it when set on the 225* mark. If some of the smokers average less than the set temp, it is very possible some of them average more than the set temp. Huh?

GLH..........where exactly are you from in the Ozark foothills?

Batesville. Where there are Q joints all around, and none any good!

How bout you?

Man I love me some pork butt! (topic)

Siloam Springs......other side of the state.

OK, but I am not on either side, I am north central, on the White River!

Yum...I smell butt!

I'm in north central AR too....but not quite on the White River. Fish it, but I'm not on it.