Todays Ongoing Smoke.Pork Butt Experiment

alx

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Windy and cold on the bay today.Had a 6 pound butt from a twin pack that i made sausage with the better half....


Injected her last night with 1 cup apricot nectar juice,worchestishire,small amount salt.1/2 cup water..3 types of my dehydrated pepper powders.(Ancho,mirasol,chimayo)








She held 1 pound of injection after weighing.

Rubbed with mainly my paprika and 3 other pepper powders,plus small amount garlic,celery,onion salts and small amount cane sugar etc...









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Order of Billowing White Smoke is dissapating...Using a chunk cherry,pecan,apple and red oak





Christmas tree is happy.Bout a 8 footer this year....





Putting the meat on once the TBS is pumping...5 minutes or so...

Taking the Butt to 180 degree unfoiled and then the experimentation begins....

 

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• Dec 10, 2009

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Nice one Alex, sounds like a really good injection and that was a beautiful rub!
Hope the kitty didn't try to take a bite.

 

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• Dec 10, 2009

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That looks delicious. Can't wait to see more Qview!

 

alx

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4 hours in and looking good.I did manage to clip the lower right edge with the lid though...I will probe butt at 5 hour mark...Looking for 180 degree..





Had a green-chile fattie sandwich for lunch





Cant believe i am still shucking dry beans from fall garden





Made up a extra large batch of egg noodles.They freeze excellent.





Grabbed a Leek out of garden for later..

 

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Sure looks good. The rub looks like a sure winner.

 

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Looking good Alex, can't wait to hear what you think about the apricot nectar injection...

 

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Knowing you alex your butt will just ooooze some goody orange nectar. That sound like you need to go get a shot there alex. I cann't wait to see how it turns out. Great job so far. If you need some medical advice you can just call me the wife will let you know whats wrong.

 

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Hee Heh..feeling fine mark....At the 6 hour mark she is 170 degree.With wind chill i decided to foil her...Windy as heck and cold.....Gonna pull her off at 183 degree and start my experiment...

 

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Hey Alex, very nice PPB you got going on and I really liked the looks of your jalapeno fattie. Well done, my friend!

 

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Looks great.

 

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The cat pic is classic. LMAO

 

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Experiment was a winner.I had to take my mom for a routine check-up and started late,so i ended up foiling.....

The plan was to pull at 185 degree(which i did) for slicing and i was gonna try something like burnt ends with some- or jims(fire it up) pastrami bits....

Here she is after unfoiling....Got a little dark wear foil was touching...
Next time bark will be stiffer,but time constraints and foiled...



Let her rest an hour and bone came out with a strong tugg





Here is the meat near bone i was gonna cube and pan smoke and braise,but no need it was tender and moist...






Sliced the main part of the butt.Truely tender as could be...






The MONEY MUSCLE was fantastic and tender.Would turn that in at any comp i have been part of over the years..













I made egg noodles earlier in thread for a butt stroganoff



Made a nice gravy with the butt fat and fresh veggies

















Had about 2 pounds of tender butt left that can go right on sanwiches...





The Apricot nectar juice acts as a tenderizer and was nice and sweet.The whole recipe has maybe tablespoon of salt and sugar and the pork really stands out....Nice back heat from my peppers...Real happy with slicing a butt for the first time in years....Nice change fromm the pulled...

 

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That's some nice looking stuff, Alex! I'd take some of that in a heartbeat.

 

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Looking great Alex...Nice job

 

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As usual Alex another fine smoke.

 

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Looks Great Alex...

 

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Excellent job Alex, thanks for sharing the Q-view it looks great.

 

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Excellent. Love the injection. I'm giving out some points for sure. Oh yeah, love that cat picture.

 

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Another view!

 

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Looks fantastic!!!!! I absolutely love stroganoff!!!!!