My first SMF smoke thread - Pork Shoulder

[dfresh1988]

Hey all

I'm smoking a couple shoulders today for a BBQ I'm hosting tomorrow.

Here they are after a night in the fridge:

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

And unwrapped:

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

Using a rub of paprika, brown sugar, salt, cumin, black pepper and cayenne pepper, amounts of which are highly classified and I'd have to kill you if I told you.

Here's the rig:

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

And the dog waiting patiently for scraps... Sorry bud it's gonna be quite a while

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

And here we go...

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

4 hours in, internal temp at 124

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

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• dfresh1988
• May 31, 2013

 

[kathrynn]

  I'm In!  Waiting like your puppy pal!  Keep showing the q-views!  Looks great so far!

Kat

 

[oldschoolbbq]

Yeah, and tell us how your Smoker pleased or displeased you .  I'm p[ondering on one...

 

[dfresh1988]

Yeah, and tell us how your Smoker pleased or displeased you .  I'm p[ondering on one...

On this smoker, I've done brisket twice, ribs 3 times, two hams, salmon, a turkey, and fresh bacon once each.

So far it's been great. The second time I did brisket it was somewhat tough but I think that was a combination of my impatience at the plateau (I turned the temp up.. oops) and a bad cut. I got the cheap stuff. Everything else has been spectacular. My wife isn't much of a meat eater. She'll usually eat two or three baby back ribs at a restaurant if she ever gets them and the first time I made spare ribs she ate an entire half slab on her own. The temperature is incredibly easy to regulate. I don't have the time or patience to deal with charcoal. I'm sure there are flavor benefits to using charcoal but I'm happy with what I get. When I say it doesn't take much time with this electric guy here's an example - I changed my brake pads and rotors out front today and just had to check on the smoke every half hour or so. It's especially helpful when there's people coming to the house tomorrow and the wife has expectations of chores LOL

This is my first shoulder. My family gives me a hard time about not having done a shoulder until a year after I've started but now I'm doing it.

 

[jp61]

 

 

[seenred]

Hey dfresh, how'd that shoulder turn out?

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