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40 lbs of Pork Butts Smokin'!
Posted on 2/22/17 at 10:59 am
Posted on 2/22/17 at 10:59 am
I was asked to make pulled pork for a friend of my wife for this Saturday so over the weekend I took out twenty pounds worth of pork butts to thaw for smoking either tomorrow or Friday. On Monday they asked to double the amount of pulled pork and needed it for tomorrow for a parade party in the evening. So I took out two more butts to thaw and even though they aren't thawed they'll be fine. But I had to move up smoking them to today.
so, this morning they got a rub down with agave and liberally seasoned with rub. I was going to use my Keg to do the original two butts but decided to go with the Traeger using apple pellets fro fuel.
Ready for the smoke!
In the Traeger
After I had them going a few minutes I decided to add a lil more smoke using my A-MAZE-N-PELLET-SMOKER using the same apple pellets in the Traeger.
I threw together a mix of agave, apple cider vinegar and 7 Up to spritz the butts later. The agave and 7 Up should help with the bark.
Oh and yeah, they're paying me to do this for them. :)
so, this morning they got a rub down with agave and liberally seasoned with rub. I was going to use my Keg to do the original two butts but decided to go with the Traeger using apple pellets fro fuel.
Ready for the smoke!
In the Traeger
After I had them going a few minutes I decided to add a lil more smoke using my A-MAZE-N-PELLET-SMOKER using the same apple pellets in the Traeger.
I threw together a mix of agave, apple cider vinegar and 7 Up to spritz the butts later. The agave and 7 Up should help with the bark.
Oh and yeah, they're paying me to do this for them. :)
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Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:04 am to Cajunate
Looking good Nate! I've been debating on getting one of those A-Maze-N pellet tubes to help with smoke content on my pellet smoker. How does it work? Don't you have to light one end of the pellets once you put it on or just let them catch on their own?
eta: nevermind...took a closer look at it and I can see the hole that you lit them through. How long does that amount last?
eta: nevermind...took a closer look at it and I can see the hole that you lit them through. How long does that amount last?
This post was edited on 2/22/17 at 11:07 am
Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:09 am to GeauxTigers0107
See the hole on the left side of the pellet smoker, that's where you light it and is will smolder and snake through the thing. It has that same hole on the opposite end if you want to light both ends for more smoke. I just lit one end as this will be a long cook. Won't be done till this evening some time.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:14 am to Cajunate
Lighting one end...how long will those pellets last?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:15 am to Cajunate
looks good! I think im gonna fire mine up tonight.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:15 am to GeauxTigers0107
Not sure, I never timed it and never used the whole load before.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:34 pm to Cajunate
Butts are still on, looking and smelling great!
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:37 pm to Cajunate
What temp ya got?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:40 pm to Degas
Started it off at 180 for a couple hours and cranked It Up to 230 I just cranked it up 275 to speed it up. They've been on for just over 10 hours.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:43 pm to Cajunate
I actually was curious about the internal temp. Is it in the stall?
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:56 pm to Cajunate
You still smoking? Lol. Damn. I start @200 for 2 hours then go to 275 for ~4 more hours and they're done. Hey...nothing wrong with it if thats what you like. 
Posted on 2/22/17 at 8:07 pm to GeauxTigers0107
Those butts are ten pounds each. They're going to take some time, including the duration of the stall.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 8:24 pm to Cajunate
There's no benefit to going that low for a pork butt IMO. Hell I do mine at 260-270 and they still take 8hrs at least.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:04 pm to PapaPogey
$40 says that Cajunate passed out.
Posted on 2/22/17 at 11:20 pm to Degas
I'll take that 40 bucks!
That stall was the longest yet. Almost done.
That stall was the longest yet. Almost done.
Posted on 2/23/17 at 9:34 am to Degas
quote:
Those butts are ten pounds each. They're going to take some time, including the duration of the stall.
Thats true...forgot about that.
Nate, did you wrap to help with the stall? Any finished pics?
Posted on 2/23/17 at 10:59 am to GeauxTigers0107
Alright, so that cook is done with. It was midnight when I finally took them off the Traeger at 193-197 degrees. These were to longest stalled butts I think I've ever done.
No GT I didn't and don't wrap butts or briskets. To me it takes however long it takes. Lol......
Since it was so late and I was exhausted from doing yardwork during the day while the butts were smoking I decided to wait and pull them in the morning. I took a big stainless pot I have and put all four butts in it and put the pot into a cube ice chest with a couple of towels for insulation. When I got up this morning the butts were still at 170 degrees and up.
Here are a couple of not so great pictures of the butts before they were completely done lsat night.
This morning I grabbed a cup of coffee and got to work pulling the pork. I hate the from forty pounds of butts I only got 21 pounds of pulled pork after the smoking and removing the fat leftover and bones(which the bones slid out nicely to prove the butts were done).
The pulled pork!
Tastes great with perfect smoke flavor!
Oh, not all of this is leaving the house. Some will be for dinner tonight on warm pistolettes.
No GT I didn't and don't wrap butts or briskets. To me it takes however long it takes. Lol......
Since it was so late and I was exhausted from doing yardwork during the day while the butts were smoking I decided to wait and pull them in the morning. I took a big stainless pot I have and put all four butts in it and put the pot into a cube ice chest with a couple of towels for insulation. When I got up this morning the butts were still at 170 degrees and up.
Here are a couple of not so great pictures of the butts before they were completely done lsat night.
This morning I grabbed a cup of coffee and got to work pulling the pork. I hate the from forty pounds of butts I only got 21 pounds of pulled pork after the smoking and removing the fat leftover and bones(which the bones slid out nicely to prove the butts were done).
The pulled pork!
Tastes great with perfect smoke flavor!
Oh, not all of this is leaving the house. Some will be for dinner tonight on warm pistolettes.
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:01 pm to Cajunate
Here's a good one........
This pork was for a friend of my wife. The wife dropped it off to her at 11:00 this morning and she had an interior decorator at her house. Debra(wife's friend)immediately opened one of the pans to taste the pulled pork and the wife says she couldn't stop exclaiming how delicious it was. Lol..... The interior decorator tasted it liked it so much she asked if SHE could get a pan for Monday for a Rex parade function. So the wife called and asked me if I could/would do it.
Compliments will get you everywhere, huh? I'll just take the other forty pounds of butts out of the freezer in a little while.
This pork was for a friend of my wife. The wife dropped it off to her at 11:00 this morning and she had an interior decorator at her house. Debra(wife's friend)immediately opened one of the pans to taste the pulled pork and the wife says she couldn't stop exclaiming how delicious it was. Lol..... The interior decorator tasted it liked it so much she asked if SHE could get a pan for Monday for a Rex parade function. So the wife called and asked me if I could/would do it.
Compliments will get you everywhere, huh? I'll just take the other forty pounds of butts out of the freezer in a little while.
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:54 pm to Cajunate
i have yet to smoke a butt due to having to do it throughout the night.
I have an electric smoker and i would need to get up every hr - hr and half to keep tossing the wood ships on the heating element.
my briskets are delicious.
I just did a backstrap that turned out great even though after 1 hour and 25 minutes the IH was already at 145-150. Trying to boil two sacks of crawfish and smoking a lean piece of meat at the same time was a mistake
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