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Have I mentioned how much I love my new smoker and this awesome forum!?!   
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Today's smoke will be breaking into new territory for me... doin' a 5 pound boneless Pork Shoulder Roast low and slow for some pulled pork sandwich's... and to make proper use of some of the extra rack space I am also smoking my first "Pizza Fatty" too just for good measure. I also made a dry rub from scratch for my first time, and I am still planning to make 2 different home-made "finishing sauces" for my first time to compliment the pork once its done and pulled! 
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Looking forward to following this post, especially for the Butt. I just got a smoker in the mail today and I can't wait to try it out this weekend!
 
I set up the 22.5" WSM using the minion method and adjusted for a temp of 245*. I used Stubb's briquette's and several fist-sized chunks of Hickory for additional smoke flavor. Fired up the smoker at 7am and hope to have the butt done by the time the sun sets... still not sure if I will wrap in foil or not, I would like to try for some crispy bark this time around... I guess I will just have to wait and see how long the stall lasts before deciding on if I need to pan/wrap it.

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Here we are 5 hours into the smoke, the Butt is starting to color up nicely. The Pizza Fatty just went on... added a couple more chunks of smoking wood... I wont lift the lid again for another 3 hours or so 
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Thanks for the positive comments guys!

I spooked myself out of letting it run through the "stall" without wrapping...

At this point I am a little over 6 hours into the smoke and the butt's IT is reading 168*... the Fatty has been smoking for just about 1.5 hours and it's IT is 156* just for reference.

While I had the butt off the smoker I went ahead and snipped off the butchers netting... added about 1.5 cups apple juice (3 apple blend) and about 1/4 cup of the home made rub and pre-heated it in the nuker for 1 min before adding it to the pan and foiling 
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Well, the good news is I am no longer in a big hurry to finish the Pork Butt... because the Pizza Fatty just recently came up to the IT of 170 so I pulled it, let it rest for about 20min, and then proceeded to eat half of it for myself! 
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  Oh man, this thing is GOOOOD!!

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Looks really good - enjoy your spoils

Chris
 
My goodness, man. What is a fatty and how do I make one? That pizza thing looks glorious.

Is heating the apple juice necessary? Just to decrease cooking time, I suppose?
 
Sorry for the slow report!

It was 9:22pm by the time the Butt reached an I.T. of 205... So it took me a little over 13hrs to smoke a 5 pounder... a little longer than I was expecting! (luckily I wasn't hungry thanks to the Fatty from earlier!)

I let in rest for another hour before pulling, and the final results were very good!   
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Originally I was thinking of making 2 different "finishing sauces" to try out, but instead I ended up making 1 finishing sauce (SoFlaQuer's recipe) and 1 BBQ sauce (Jeff's recipe)... both of which were outstanding for my first batches!

It was so tender and moist it just fell into chunks when I tried to lift it from the aluminum pan with tongs. It ended up with some nice bark and a decent smoke ring too!
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I had it all pulled into shreds in no time and couldn't help but nibble on some tender goodness while I was at it.
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Mixed in some finishing sauce, and then continued sampling my creation...
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By now I was too full to even try a pulled pork sandwich 
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So I wrapped everything up and put it in the refrigerator for the night. 
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This morning I busted out some leftovers so I could finally try a sandwich. I decided to make up a batch of BBQ sauce to top them off with.
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I put some of the pork shreds in a bowl along with a handful of shredded cheddar and heated it up for 45 seconds in the microwave, then piled it up on a warm burger bun and drizzled some warm sauce over the top... Mmmm!
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I finally got my sandwich, and it was well worth the effort!
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That fatty looks like I REALLY need the other half that you didn't eat.  Hershey Kisses just aren't cutting it for lunch.  Butt has great color on it and looks great too.

Kat
 
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