Pork pullin' tools

Meatrake,unless you really want to spend $ for the drill attachment.(porkpuller.com)

I bought gloves on Amazon. They are for handling hot food. The ones I purchased are I believe by Butterball. They are blue and have a tiny bit of roughness on the fingers for gripping food. I take all my food out of the smoker with them on and pull apart the pork, etc. They are not for hot metal or anything else you would hold with potholders as they are on the thinner side. But they do offer a good barrier between the heat of the food and your hands. I looked at a lot of reviews on Amazon before settling on the Butterball ones. They are easy to wash as well. Just have them on and wash with soap and hot water.

I have the bear claws they work fine. But I like the insulated silcone gloves better. I think you have better control over the size of pork chunks.I dont like mine shredded too fine.

That porkpuller drill attachment looks awesome though.

I have used the gloves and the bear claws. The claws are fairly fast but alot of work if you have several butts to do.

I bought one of the pork pullers, and it works great if you have several butts to do. If I have over 8 to do, I will break it out. Put 2 butts in a pot, pull bone and fat. Then put unit into the meat and pull tigger. I do short burst on hte trigger. Takes about 10 seconds, for the two butts. Then break any larger bunches with the bear claws. If you go too long it can turn it to mush.

If you don't have much to do it is a lot more mess to clean up.

RandyE

I use the black gloves I bought from Texas BBQ for 10 bucks a few years ago.

I don't go in for the tools concept because they tend to do a generalize pull, which is ok.

I just buy cotton globes, put my rubber food service gloves over them and pull away.

I can feel the tenderness and resistence and more easily discard any fat I don't want to eat (not all, I leave some, just not all of it)

I can pull quite fast with Bear Claws. And I remove all significant chunks of unrendered fat.

Like Smokin' says.Most hardware,etc stores you can buy the cotton gloves for about $6-$7 a dozen.Get 100 packs of food service gloves -cheap and must haves.

It certainly depends on the amount/volume you do.

Most of you good cooks can drop a butt on the table and it will start,pull the bone,and almost wipe away the discard tissues.

Pulling chicken,they are good because you can feel the couple small sliver bones that are hard to see/feel.

If you are serious volume,Hobart's Buffalo chopper does meats,cabbage,etc.

I use home depot garden rakes, see pic.

I have used the bear claws for years, but the meat rakes are so much easier and faster.

I saw those on your other post and was impressed. I use the bear claws, but they get greasy and start to slip. I've got a gift certificate at Amazon...maybe I'll get a set.

Nice bark by the way.

This is simply awesome for pulled pork!!!!!



http://www.porkpuller.com/

Glad it works for you.

My personal problem with "tools" like this is they still leave the fat in there and I do like a little of the fat, but not a lot of the fat.

I also like to chunk it, not shred it as shreds tend to lose heat as well as moisture

I'm a chunky guy.

Give me a pair of Nitrile gloves and I'll pull 2 8# butts in less than 10 minutes and get pieces exactly the way I want 'em.

Moto-shred tools, bear claws, pork rakes....PU-LEEZ

Bear claws are fast, and you can still pull the fat.

I love my Bear paws but still use the rubber gloves if I have a chunk that needs some extra attention. Going to get a new set of the Grizzly Edition Bear Paws which are now black in color and supposed to be even sharper.

Bear Paw Meat Handler - Grizzly Edition

Got a pork butt going into the smoker in about an hour....Mmmm!

I pull mine by hand so I can get out as much fat as possible. Everyone comments on how they don't get chunks of fat in my pulled pork, like they do when they go the the local BBQ places.

Wayne B

It looks like a very messy inefficient & bulky machine.
I don't think you are allowed to advertise here.

I learned from Smokin' to use my hands, I prewash my hands very carefully and hand pull my pork discarding any fat and having the opportunity to get the meat into the size pieces I want. Works for me... But it's just me, Mr. Home cook, I'm not running a restaurant.

I have used hands, bear paws, and recently bought these.
http://www.porknpull.com/

All work well for the price these work great just make sure you have a high sided bowl or pan.