First pork butt smoke

[jupiter jack]

Diving in tonight. Picked up 2 pork butts from Win Dixxie last night.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Scored the fat cap.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Pre rub.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Post rub.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Ready for overnight in the fridge.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Loaded into MES preheated to 225 at 7 pm.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Little TBS.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 17, 2014

Going to insert internal temp probe before I go to bed and let the Maverick and AMNPS do the work. See you in the morning!

 

[b-one]

Wish I slept during my first butt, it took forever and a half:). Good luck looking forward to more qview!

 

[davidhef88]

Love having my Mav babysit for me. Hope all goes well and looking forward to updates. Glad I'm not paying your pork price. I'm getting whole butts for $1.79/lb.

 

[jupiter jack]

David, wondered how that pork price stacked up. Glad I got the card discount. Will price check against Restauraunt Depot next time.


After 6 plus hours, put in internal temperature probe which showed 136 and 142. Reloaded the AMNPS.

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• jupiter jack
• Oct 18, 2014

Nighttime.

 

[noboundaries]

Love having my Mav babysit for me. Hope all goes well and looking forward to updates. Glad I'm not paying your pork price. I'm getting whole butts for $1.79/lb.

Best I can do on the opposite coast is Costco at $2.39/lb for boneless.  Wal-Mart will have bone-in at times for $1.79/lb but I rarely shop there. 

Smoked 17 lbs of Costco boneless butt today for a block party Saturday. There were two boneless shoulder/butts in a VacPac.   

 

[crazymoon]

Looking good !

 

[jupiter jack]

Woke up to internal temps of 165 or so. AMNPS burned all the way through during the night. Got about 5 hours of smoke out of it I am guessing. Reloaded.

 

[jupiter jack]

MES struggling to get hotter than 255. Been cooking since 7pm last night. Internal temps around 185. No wrap. Thinking about finishing in oven at 275. What do you guys think?

 

[davidhef88]

I always just let them ride it out in the smoker. I like the bark so I don't foil them, but you could and it would finish them quick. The last 8 lb. one I did took over 24 hrs. @ 235*. I usually put them in on a Saturday afternoon for Sunday evening.

 

[jupiter jack]

Thanks for the encouragement David. I ended up foiling in the oven because I had a party to go to and needed to get em done. Turned out great. I think!