pork butt vs pork shoulder roast

Hi Reto... The butt and the shoulder are really the same thing. The whole shoulder has the bone (this is sometimes calld a pork shoulder blade roast here in the states). Your wholesale chain is probably just trimming off the piece with the bone.

Here's a good reference site.

http://www.askthemeatman.com/pork_shoulder_butt_cuts.htm

Yes Ron, but would not a shoulder also have the picnic end of the whole shoulder attached also. I have always known a shoulder roast to include both the butt and the picnic.

John

Swiss,

It really doesn�t make a lot of difference what part of the pig you smoke. The shoulder which includes two cuts, if separated, is the cheaper part of the pig and does just fine when BBQing or smoking. I have smoked hams, whole shoulders, butts, picnics, loins, loin roast, bacon in the CS55 and even a whole pig in my La Caja China. Cost of the cut is the main difference, a cheap cut is just as good as an expensive cut when doing a BBQ or a smoking.

If the cut has little fat, like a loin roast, then I add cured bacon on top with tooth picks. The bacon will get almost black, but don�t throw it away, it becomes the manna.

smokemullet

Swiss Smoke- Check out MainelyDave's Pork Shoulder page. I think this will help you.

Good luck!

Mainely Dave's the MAN!

Mainly dave's got some good info and is doing a great job.

But the labeling the the producers put on there is what throws everyone off.

It's mislabeled, it looks like a large picnic (probably did leave some of the butt to get up to 8lbs, like Dave said). It's not a full shoulder, which would include Butt and Picnic. Looking at it and reading, I think it's only a picnic, not butt.

Here's a full shoulder, think it was in the 12lb range.



If you split this down the middle, the butt would be on the left and the picnic on the right. Picnic almost always has the skin on

I bought one of these babies last night for the weekend. 19.6 lbs! .69 per lb! Just got my sinbo sealer so I'm looking to freeze whatever is left over for pulled pork sand and bean meat.

Yes, it was a Picnic. The labels describe it as "Picnic Shoulder". I never see full shoulders for sale around here.

raiderbill. where did you grt one 4 .69per lb.
largo is not that far from spring hill.

j foley

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Originally posted by j foley:
[qb] raiderbill. where did you grt one 4 .69per lb. largo is not that far from spring hill.
j foley [/qb]

Hey, I think he is trolling for people like me.. .. every time someone puts out a price like that.. I'm sucked into a response. We ain't even close here on the west coast.. course.. look at the price of fuel out here too.. should tell you something.

I got it at Publix. I was there looking for a picnic and a butt. Noticed that there was a "big" chunk of meat in the back of the shelf so I dug it out. Picnics were going for .99 lb and butts $1.29. Go figure. I asked my contact there about the price, he just shrugged his shoulder so off I went to checkout.
I'm going to stick it in the CS, kick start the scooter and hope I make it back before it's done.
At 19 lbs if I smoke it for 1.5 hours per at a minimum I'll need to tie a string around my finger to remember it.

Was at Publix last night, "Picnics" for .59 lb HAd some big boys up to 18 lbs! Guess what I'm smoking this weekend?!

Publix has fresh hams, .99 lb this week