Hey everyone....
Having our opening night of "poker night" for our third season. Seems like the pork butts I smoke never last the entire night. Anyway I typically got my pork butts from Wal-Mart (Where I live there isn't really a butcher close to us). Well anyway the wife and I were at BJs and I saw them selling pork butts in the 8 1/2 pound to 9 1/2 pound range. So I picked up about an 8 1/2 pound to smoke for the poker game.
The night before I cleaned the butt and injected it with apple juice mixed with salt and brown sugar. This is the second time I have done injection, I have heard the debate that some people don't like it, some people don't taste the difference, some people live by it. After smoking about 15 butts with no injection, and 2 butts with injection, I notice a difference. Below is my prep for the night before. I rub store brand mustard on the butt and let that sit in for about 5 to 10 minutes, and then I drop the rub on it.
We do rub all the sides, this is just the pic that I took at the time. We wrapped it up in foil for about 6 hours in the fridge. You can also tell I am of the "you can't overrub a pork butt...". I am using a mixture of hickory and mesquite today for the wood, with some apple chips thrown in. Im on the east coast, and we had a wicked wind hit us last night, and today its in the low 50s, with the wind howling, not much sun, so my smoking ability is being test....I will have more pics :).
Currently, smoking about 235 on hour 2 right now....
Having our opening night of "poker night" for our third season. Seems like the pork butts I smoke never last the entire night. Anyway I typically got my pork butts from Wal-Mart (Where I live there isn't really a butcher close to us). Well anyway the wife and I were at BJs and I saw them selling pork butts in the 8 1/2 pound to 9 1/2 pound range. So I picked up about an 8 1/2 pound to smoke for the poker game.
The night before I cleaned the butt and injected it with apple juice mixed with salt and brown sugar. This is the second time I have done injection, I have heard the debate that some people don't like it, some people don't taste the difference, some people live by it. After smoking about 15 butts with no injection, and 2 butts with injection, I notice a difference. Below is my prep for the night before. I rub store brand mustard on the butt and let that sit in for about 5 to 10 minutes, and then I drop the rub on it.
We do rub all the sides, this is just the pic that I took at the time. We wrapped it up in foil for about 6 hours in the fridge. You can also tell I am of the "you can't overrub a pork butt...". I am using a mixture of hickory and mesquite today for the wood, with some apple chips thrown in. Im on the east coast, and we had a wicked wind hit us last night, and today its in the low 50s, with the wind howling, not much sun, so my smoking ability is being test....I will have more pics :).
Currently, smoking about 235 on hour 2 right now....
