Pork butt pulled pork

[JAEBR29]

Third smoke and the one I may be most excited for. Pulled pork.
Started out great. Maybe a little behind schedule but the previous two smokes went way earlier than expected so I didn't think much of it.
Now I'm an hour and a half behind "schedule" and still have 15 degrees to go and resting. Maybe it was the clumsy/ newb move of trying to put the probe into the meat and somehow flipped the cooking great and dropped the meat into the water pan. Uggh. Picture below is before that incident.
Anyways.... We're getting there and I'm salivating.

 

[JAEBR29]

Finally to the resting stage. And for the first time I experienced sticking a fork into meat and it feeling like melted butter. Wow....I can't wait!

 

[hardcookin]

Sounds like it come out ok. Let us know.

 

[JAEBR29]

Well it was worth the wait.

 

[noboundaries]

It all looks great......and a war story to share for future newbies! "You think that's bad, I once dropped my butt in the water pan!"

 

[hardcookin]

Looks like an excellent meal!! Worth a point.

 

[JAEBR29]

Haha. Yes definitely a way story. And a good reminder to myself not to sweat the small stuff. Even the "are you kidding me" stuff can turn out fine.

 

[sauced]

Way to salvage that butt!! Looks real delicious, nice job!!

 

[Sharin]

I need some advice...A good friend of mine smoked me a 6 lb pork butt yesterday and delivered it in a cooler wrapped in paper and towels. (It is for a happy hour I am hosting tonight and the plan was to reheat on low today and then pull/serve for the party). I took it out of the cooler around 8pm lasy night and it was still very hot. I meant to let it cool a bit and then refrigerate. Unfortunately I fell asleep and realized at 4:30 this morning it hadn't been refrigerated. My guess is that i have to throw it away at this point, correct? Thx!!

 

[schlotz]

No doubt the IT was way below 150º so yup, throw it out. Sorry but you don't want to run the risk of making others ill.

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