Do Your Pork Butts Come with Skin On?

rabbithutch

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• Aug 23, 2015

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HEB in Texas has been running port butts, cryo wrapped, bone in, for 97¢ a pound for the last week or so. I picked up a couple in the middle of last week. I didn't pay much attention to anything but size when I got them; but when I opened them up for the wash up and rub, I found that one of them still had the pork skin intact. I've never bought one with the skin still on the butt before. Knowing that pigskin is tough enough to kick around all day in a pasture (Andy Griffith's What It Was Was Football), I took my boning knife and cut the skin off leaving as much of the fat as I could.

When you buy cryo-packed butts, are then skinned or not?

 

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• Aug 23, 2015

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Over here in the UK, we often get the Shoulders with the skin on.

 

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• Aug 23, 2015

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I've never seen one with skin on. A picnic is another story. I think yours slipped through, cause a butt by classification has the skin removed.

Item No. 406 - Pork Shoulder, Boston Butt

This item is as described in Item No. 403except that the picnic is removed as described in Item No. 405. Skin, neck bones and related cartilage shall be removed. At least traces of false lean shall be exposed. When specified, the neck shall be removed by a straight cut approximately parallel to the loin side, immediately anterior to the pectorales profundus.

 

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• Aug 25, 2015

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I've got six of them in the freezer and smoked two a week or so ago.  They were also from HEB and no skin on the two.  Maybe one just got past someone at the plant.

 

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• Aug 25, 2015

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I'd like to get some pork buts for that price...Safeway in Eastern WA has them for $1.79 LB. Which for here is a good deal, payed $2.79 LB for a butt last weekend...guess I was a little early...

 

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• Aug 26, 2015

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Never seen skin, weird, but that is a great price.  I would lose my mind if I saw 99c butts. 

 

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• Aug 26, 2015

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Since only one piece had skin, was it maybe a whole shoulder that had been cut for the butt and picnic?

 

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• Aug 26, 2015

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Damn 99 cents and it comes with the makins of Pork Rinds,I'd be all over that.

Richie

 

rabbithutch

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• Aug 26, 2015

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Thanks, folks!

I think it was just a one-off that I happened on. I will look more carefully from now on when buying.

Yep. 99¢ a pound is a no brainer for me on pork butts. Now, if I could just find whole briskets at that price . . .

 

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rabbithutch said:

Thanks, folks!

I think it was just a one-off that I happened on. I will look more carefully from now on when buying.

Yep. 99¢ a pound is a no brainer for me on pork butts. Now, if I could just find whole briskets at that price . . .

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You find them don't post it PM me,I'll be there in about 28 hrs. LOL

Richie