No Foil Pork Butt - shortest smoking time for me!

smokinhusker · Oct 2, 2012

I bought all those pork butts @ $1.19 lb so thought I'd make some pulled pork for the upcoming Rifle Elk Season.

Smoked it in the MES 40 on the 3rd rack with set temp of 275* and a cabinet temp of approximately 250*, with Pecan and Apple wood. It took about 16.75 hr from start to 200* IT. I put an aluminum foil pan under for the drippings and added apple juice and apple cider vinegar with a bit of brown sugar.

This one is a 9.25 lb cleaned up and ready for Sportsman's Warehouse Southern Pecan and Honey Rub

Trimmed and ready for Southern Pecan and Honey Rub

smokinhusker
Oct 2, 2012

First coating of rub

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smokinhusker
Oct 2, 2012

Wrapped and ready for an overnight rest

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smokinhusker
Oct 2, 2012

Second dusting of rub

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smokinhusker
Oct 2, 2012

A cleanly removed bone - and the butt is falling apart

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smokinhusker
Oct 2, 2012

Pulled, if you can call it that. It was so tender it literally just fell apart

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Oct 2, 2012

Thanks for looking!

big twig · Oct 2, 2012

Looks great!

pit 4 brains · Oct 2, 2012

Nice work! Gonna be some happy hunters at the camp. Which reminds me, I have a tag in Dec too.. Good luck on the elk!

fpnmf · Oct 2, 2012

Looks delicious!!

Craig

davidhef88 · Oct 2, 2012

Nice looking pork!

David

insideout · Oct 2, 2012

Awesome!

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scarbelly · Oct 2, 2012

Looks awesome Alesia

rdknb · Oct 2, 2012

Looks great

oldschoolbbq · Oct 2, 2012

I am so proud of you Husker , no foil and still juicy and more Bark too...

, looks great.

Have fun and...

smokinhusker · Oct 2, 2012

Thanks guys! This is the shortest one I've smoked and no overnight! Great bark, moist and tender - it's called no looking!

forluvofsmoke · Oct 3, 2012

Ah, sounds like we may have another no-foil convert! Ha-ha-ha! If the Elk hunt is as good as your smoke, it will be a very good hunt, indeed. Lookin' GOOD, Alesia!

Eric

damon555 · Oct 3, 2012

That is some fine looking pork! I bet it gets eaten in short order. I'm finished with foil!....well except for the after smoke rest period. It's so nice just to "let it ride" without having to fiddle around inside the smoker. You should try it for everything.....you won't be sorry.

smokinhusker · Oct 3, 2012

Thanks Damon. I like just putting it in and leaving it, I do my brisket the same way..ribs are next!

Damon555 said:
That is some fine looking pork! I bet it gets eaten in short order. I'm finished with foil!....well except for the after smoke rest period. It's so nice just to "let it ride" without having to fiddle around inside the smoker. You should try it for everything.....you won't be sorry.

Thanks Eric! I foiled the first and never foiled one after that. We've got weather coming in tonight and freeze warnings through Sunday. Rut was late this year and we don't hunt til the 20th so hopefully it'll be good!

forluvofsmoke said:
Ah, sounds like we may have another no-foil convert! Ha-ha-ha! If the Elk hunt is as good as your smoke, it will be a very good hunt, indeed. Lookin' GOOD, Alesia!

Eric

forluvofsmoke · Oct 3, 2012

SmokinHusker said:
Thanks Eric! I foiled the first and never foiled one after that. We've got weather coming in tonight and freeze warnings through Sunday. Rut was late this year and we don't hunt til the 20th so hopefully it'll be good!

Ah, the fall weather...here's our NOAA forecast...lovely hunting weather...NOT!!!...and we have TONS of folks from the great lakes region for pronghorn antelope rifle season...wish 'em luck:

This
Afternoon

Chance
Rain

High: 49 °F

Tonight

Chance
Rain/Snow

Low: 25 °F

Thursday

Partly
Sunny

High: 44 °F

Thursday
Night

Chance
Rain/Snow

Low: 27 °F

Friday

Chance
Rain/Snow

High: 40 °F

Friday
Night

Chance
Rain/Snow

Low: 23 °F

Saturday

Slight Chc
Snow

High: 42 °F

Saturday
Night

Mostly
Clear

Low: 23 °F

Sunday

Mostly
Sunny

High: 51 °F

It could be worse, I guess, even for the first week of October...I remember my first November deer hunt @ 14 y/o back home...first day out, we had about 10-12" of wet, heavy snow, and after getting out to the field, it started coming down so fast we could hardly track an animal. All you could see was white, because all of the brush and grass was completely covered with it...if your partner was 50ft away, you may not even see them...well, if any of that describes seeing, but rather the lack of visibility...you really could barely see your own tracks behind you...not even shadows were visible...white...just white, everywhere. Could have been a bad situation if someone made a dumb move or fired a shot...just finding our way back to the vehicle was bad enough...can't imagine what it would have been like if someone got lost in that situation...rifle-fire could be heard for miles in that dense air, but directional navigating would have been impossible without a compass. I've only ever been in a situation like that once since then...driving in the middle of NOWHERE...sucked big time.

Load your day-packs for the worst, good luck and be safe on the hunt!

Eric

kryinggame · Oct 3, 2012

Alesia, great job, as always

mballi3011 · Oct 3, 2012

Looks good to me and you'll be eating good in the Elk Camp this year for sure.

smokinhusker · Oct 3, 2012

Thanks you guys!

Eric, that forecast looks similar to ours except today we are in the low 70's and windy. It's supposed to plummet around 4 PM. It snowed right before opening last yr and hunting was good-we saw elk everyday. Snowed mid week and once it stopped the elk were on the move and again still saw them everyday, finally dropped my cow on Saturday. We've both got bull tags this year so it should be fun.

Don't you hate it when the weather is like that and you need to do something in it. That would have been scary for sure.

dad of four · Oct 3, 2012

SmokinHusker said:
I bought all those pork butts @ $1.19 lb so thought I'd make some pulled pork for the upcoming Rifle Elk Season.

Smoked it in the MES 40 on the 3rd rack with set temp of 275* and a cabinet temp of approximately 250*, with Pecan and Apple wood. It took about 16.75 hr from start to 200* IT. I put an aluminum foil pan under for the drippings and added apple juice and apple cider vinegar with a bit of brown sugar.

Can you explain: set temp 275, and cabinet temp of 250 Is your MES off by 25 degrees?

I routinely put an oven thermometer in my MES, and the set temp & oven thermometer are pretty spot-on

smokinhusker · Oct 3, 2012

dad of four said:
SmokinHusker said:

I bought all those pork butts @ $1.19 lb so thought I'd make some pulled pork for the upcoming Rifle Elk Season.

Smoked it in the MES 40 on the 3rd rack with set temp of 275* and a cabinet temp of approximately 250*, with Pecan and Apple wood. It took about 16.75 hr from start to 200* IT. I put an aluminum foil pan under for the drippings and added apple juice and apple cider vinegar with a bit of brown sugar.

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Can you explain: set temp 275, and cabinet temp of 250 Is your MES off by 25 degrees?

I routinely put an oven thermometer in my MES, and the set temp & oven thermometer are pretty spot-on

Most MES are off in temperature by a few degrees - the one I had that broke was 50* cooler in the cabinet than the digital set temp. I got a new body unit and it is only off by a few degrees, but I did notice when I put the aluminum foil pan in to catch drippings, this caused the temp to drop in the cabinet by 25*. I haven't done any mods to it, but they are planned to even out the temp inside. This is the 20070311 model, not the newly re-designed one.

kryinggame · Oct 3, 2012

SmokinHusker said:
Most MES are off in temperature by a few degrees - the one I had that broke was 50* cooler in the cabinet than the digital set temp. I got a new body unit and it is only off by a few degrees, but I did notice when I put the aluminum foil pan in to catch drippings, this caused the temp to drop in the cabinet by 25*. I haven't done any mods to it, but they are planned to even out the temp inside. This is the 20070311 model, not the newly re-designed one.

Alesia, that's an interesting observation discovery. I've read where folks put sand in their pan to stabilize the heat. Have you tried this? There's always so much to learn.

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