Storing cooked butts

Ricko,
I prefer to pull the pork, then I chop it a little, and add some of Smokin Okies Basting and Finishing sauce to keep it moist. (Excellent sauce by the way !)

If I'm gonna keep it for a long length of time (which rarely happens...usually gets eaten within a day or two) I use my FoodSaver vacuum bag sealer, seal the bags and freeze them. You can reheat them by placing in boiling water for about 20 minutes or half hour, and the pork tastes like you just took it out of the smoker.

If you only want to keep it a few days...you could probably get away with just placing the pulled pork with some sauce into regular food bags, squeeze as much air out as possible, and store in the fridge. When reheating from the fridge I like to use the microwave.

If you try reheating the pork without sauce, I find it comes out a little dry.

Hope this helps somewhat..

Smoken thanks for the info,on okies sauce,it calls for 6 cloves of garlic, do you use that much and do you add it whole or crush or mince it. Thanks ricko

Ricko

Here is the way I handled 4 butts for 25 people over the 4th of july. Not wanting to stay up all night cooking the butts . I put the rubbed butts in the water smoker the morning of the 5th, cooked them at about 240 for 9 hrs, at that point they were at 155 degrees. I let them cool slightly and than wraped them in tinfoil and placed them on blocks of ice in a ice chest and put crushed ice around them.

The dinner was at 6 o clock, at 10 o clock on the morning on the 6 th. I took the 4 butts out of the ice chest opened the tin foil wrap and poured 1/2 cup of a mixture of apple juice and honey over the butts and resealed them.

I then put them in an electric roaster at 240 degrees until 5:00 at that time they were at 209 degrees a little to well done for slicing. But this did not seem to matter. Everyone thought they were very good.

I would also like to mention that the internal temp of the butts when I took them out of the ice chest was 36 degrees.

I was happy with a comment from one person beings this was the first time I had cooked for so many people. She said that she was from South Carolina and that people were really into bbqing out there and my butts were as good as any she had ever eating.

charlie