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  1. mayor mcpork

    First Buckboard Bacon with a Pork Butt

    That looks fantastic Reinhard. I might just have to follow in your footsteps here
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    Pork Shoulder took 36 hours to smoke - Why?

    ....and that concludes today's class on thermal dynamics. Thank you all for coming. Please tip your waitstaff. (Applause)
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    Pork Shoulder took 36 hours to smoke - Why?

    Wow, great replies. I've always figured that my cheap Masterbuilt was pourous enough since smoke billows out from every shoddy weld joint! Point made though, especially in the cold/wind/rain that I probably should open that vent some and crank the heat more. I suppose I was being miserly and...
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    Pork Shoulder took 36 hours to smoke - Why?

    Yup, I'm well aware of the botchalism issue but it was whole muscle and I didn't score the meat, just took off a chunk of the fat cap. I have gotten into the mode of not opening the vent because I've found that it allows me to maintain TBS longer without burning up my wood - less flame from my...
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    Pork Shoulder took 36 hours to smoke - Why?

    I did have alarms set. The smoker hit 200 degrees one time during the night, but before I got out of bed, it ticked back up to 210 (it was 25 degrees, windy, and sleeting). Once morning hit and I bumped up the temperature, I increased my low temp alarm to 240 when I was gunning for the 250-265...
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    Pork Shoulder took 36 hours to smoke - Why?

    Over the weekend, I smoked a 6.5lb pork butt. It started with a good layer of yellow mustard and the Bone Dust rub. A day later I put the pork shoulder in my smoker at 10pm on Friday night. I went to sleep soon afterward but saw the temp on my remote thermometer. It cooked between 200 and 225...
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    Masterbuilt temperatures...NOT EVEN CLOSE

    I don't even have a fancy Masterbuilt, just a cheap propane one. It seems to me that while frustrating, you might as well just learn what the target temp needs to be and use the Maverick to verify.
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    Masterbuilt propane smokers

    That's fantastic. I'll have to look around at my local Sears
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    Newbie wants to try an 11 lb boneless pork shoulder

    It sounds to me like it cooked to fast. I do about a 15 hour smoke on my 4-5lb pork shoulders, keeping it around 225 degrees the entire time (and no crutch). Then an hour or so in the cooler. Your meat was not fall-off-the-bone because all of the connective tissue did not have time to melt...
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    My aunt's husband will not share......

    I guess that you guys can label me selfish for encouraging other cooks to take my recipes and make them their own. I'm strong enough to take your criticisms but I don't agree with it. I think that you read too much into my statement without thinking about your response first. Just because I...
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    First Pork Shoulder - Didn't Go Great

    I'm stupid....should have taken some pics, but the chicken turned out pretty good last night. I only put in 3 or 4 chunks of cherry wood and did indeed get much better smoke. It was low and consistent. I cooked the chicken around 250 degrees for a little over two hours and then kicked it up to...
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    First Pork Shoulder - Didn't Go Great

    The wood was sort of a train wreck by my own doing. I did some practice runs with the stock wood box and everything just went up in smoke - mesquite chips. On the morning of my pork shoulder, I stuck a cast iron pan on top of the stock wood box with a combination of mesquite chips and cherry...
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    My aunt's husband will not share......

    I'm more of a baker and cook than a smoker, but I'll say this. I will give people my ingredients but I don't like to give out the measurements. For one reason, I rarely measure things out so it's an eyeball thing. Second, most of my recipes evolved into the final product after many batches of...
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    First Pork Shoulder - Didn't Go Great

    Thanks for the responses. For a rub, I used the Memphis Dust recipe from (gulp) another forum. In retrospect, I think that there are a few things that may have happened and/or I should do differently. I should have planned for more time. I might have gotten overzealous trimming off the fat. I...
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    First Pork Shoulder - Didn't Go Great

    I got my intro into smoking this past weekend. I picked up a Masterbuilt Cookmaster propane smoker (model #20050511). I did a lot of reading and emailed the company to get their seasoning instructions. I twice seasoned the smoker by spraying down the insides and racks and then getting the temp...
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