My first all night pork butt smoke!

  • Some of the links on this forum allow SMF, at no cost to you, to earn a small commission when you click through and make a purchase. Let me know if you have any questions about this.
SMF is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Hang in there...it looks like its going great.  You'd probably get a heavier bark if you were using a more substantial rub.  SPOG is great, but won't make a bark like rubs with sugars and other spices.  Just do a search of the forums for rubs, and you'll find recipes for all purpose rubs that work great on pork.  Or you might think about buying Jeff's rub and sauce recipes.  Also, you can add to the bark by mopping/spritzing about once an hour.  I like to spritz with apple juice mixed with a littly honey or karo syrup.  Keep at it...its looking great so far!
 
Hang in there...it looks like its going great.  You'd probably get a heavier bark if you were using a more substantial rub.  SPOG is great, but won't make a bark like rubs with sugars and other spices.  Just do a search of the forums for rubs, and you'll find recipes for all purpose rubs that work great on pork.  Or you might think about buying Jeff's rub and sauce recipes.  Also, you can add to the bark by mopping/spritzing about once an hour.  I like to spritz with apple juice mixed with a littly honey or karo syrup.  Keep at it...its looking great so far!
Thanks for the encouragement! I was sort of following a post where it was done this way and he came out with a great bark. Yeah I have seen many great looking recipes on here for rubs, sauces, foiling sauces, and I even bought Jeffs recipes...

I'm hanging in there, actually the fire is staying pretty well dialed in and very little white smoke and then only when I throw another log on the fire....
 
Looks good! When the time comes tonight that you start questioning your sanity for staying up and tending to this meat, visualize the finished product. When you enjoy it tomorrow you'll be a happy person and then the all night smokes are a piece of cake!
 
Get any sleep? Lol my first all nighter was a long sleepless night.
No, not much. This wood thing is challenging. Hit a LONG stall at 167. Let's see, we're 14 hours in and temp is 179. Sound about right? Next time I'm picking a warmer night to do this!
 
"Yawn, followed by a longer yawn".... OK, 16 hours in and we're at 191. Cold outside still (39) but the wind died down making temp control much easier....

My son wants me to throw a rack of ribs on, so they're ready when they get here for supper!...he prefers ribs to pulled pork! Egads! Oh well the fire is hot, plenty of room on the Longhorn.... and I trimmed and rubbed some spareribs with Jeffs rub, at some time last night/morning.....???
 

 
Just under 18 hours to 198.....Ok we got bark! Too much? As I moved it over to the foil to cool, feels like the bark is all that's holding it together. Pocked around to check uniform temp and thermometer literally fell into the meat once through the crust. Seems really moist and I know this thing will fall into if not handled carefuelly... Only 1.5 hours into cooling, really anxious to pull this!

I'll let you know!


 
Now that is a work of art!!!
Not too much bark for me! When you pull it and mix all that bark in it adds so much flavor!
Lean Trim, No Foil, Dry Chamber....FTW!!!!
 
Success! 
bravo.png
  That bark turned out real nice.  Your gonna be real popular at dinner time!
 
What are the pitfalls of pulling too soon? The natives are really restless, they been smelling this a really long time.
 
It's HARD to pull!!!! Physically hard - there's too much "tug" - get it to temp and it'll pull like a dream!!

Forgot to add, if you have to tug it to pull it you're going to have to tug it to eat it... Add a course chop if this is where you end up!!

BTW!! Yum!! Looks great... Smoked salmon this weekend, so I'm craving a butt something fierce!!!
 
Must still waiting to be cleared for the pics?

Well there was not trouble with tug...literally fell apart!

The ribs at 3 hours. Apple juice and foiled and back on smoker for 2 hours! (With some pulled pork headed for the freezer in the background)

 
Forgot to add, if you have to tug it to pull it you're going to have to tug it to eat it... Add a course chop if this is where you end up!!

BTW!! Yum!! Looks great... Smoked salmon this weekend, so I'm craving a butt something fierce!!!
My posts are being held, so some of this will be redundant when they are all released...but the meal literally fell apart - no "tug" needed!  This pulled pork is awesome.

Again, Thanks so much to everyone here!
 
At the risk of being redundant I'm reposting the pics of the finished product. (In case they aren't being "held" and I messed up the post that I thought I posted them in) Still getting rave reviews from the family. It seems just a "tad" mushy to me but no one seems to agree. All in all, a great success!


 
SmokingMeatForums.com is reader supported and as an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

Latest posts

Hot Threads

Clicky