Pork butt

[SPD656]

Pork butts seasoned up for my bday cook tomorrow. Gonna start them about 2am tomorrow morn.

 

[gotbacon?]

Nice, bone in? Do you rub down with oil first or just season?

 

[Sodaking27]

Looks like you are off to a great start. Enjoy your bday.

 

[SPD656]

Nice, bone in? Do you rub down with oil first or just season?

Yes always bone in I think boneless suck. I rub down with mustard and then season. These guys are seasoned with traeger pork and poultry.

 

[SPD656]

Looks like you are off to a great start. Enjoy your bday.

Thank you!

 

[BlackBetsy]

Congratulations ???? and have a nice day today!

 

[primeone]

Awesome, can't wait to see some finished pics

 

[SPD656]

Congratulations ???? and have a nice day today!

Thank you

 

[SPD656]

6 hours in just transferred to foil pans to catch some of those juices. I like to pour the juices in a fat separator and then back over the meat after it’s shredded.

 

[primeone]

Do you transfer just based on time or certain meat temp?

 

[SPD656]

Do you transfer just based on time or certain meat temp?

No just depends on if I’m home and what’s going on. I wait a minimum of 3 hours though so I get all the smoke I can to them.

 

[SPD656]

So I don’t have a great pic of the finished product. Started talking and eating and drinking and it was all history after that. I used all apple pellets this go around along with my smoke tube. I never get the smoke I want on my butts so I decided not to wrap this time. Still felt the smoke was mild even with the smoke tube. Gonna try different pellets next time and keep tweaking. I pulled at 190 IT and wrapped foil over top the foil pans and let them rest for about an hour and 15 in the cooler and threw a towel over top to insulate. Bones came clean right out and all my friends ranted and raved about the tenderness and taste. Guess I’m just a little self critical and really want it to knock your socks off. I learn and tweak something every smoke.

 

[gotbacon?]

Looks awesome!!

 

[Sodaking27]

Looks tasty ?

 

[primeone]

Nice job, thanks for taking the time to let us know all the details on the cook. I find it interesting and I'm sure it helps others. I'm always trying to make adjustments and improvements to improve my food as well!