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How long after the Sell by Date is safe for Pork? I have 2 shoulders not frozen with a sell by date of yesterday but wasn't planning to cook them till Saturday, prepping Friday night.
From my post, http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/113868/highly-modified-char-griller-pro-with-side-fire-box
When I am cooking chicken I add a heat baffle that bolck the heat and forces it to the top of the chamber. This allow the cook with the heat only coming from the top of the chamber. I...
Only because the cost is 50 cents less per pound I will go with Shoulders, well maybe. Even cost is hard to decide because if you look at the pics you can see I ended up with pulled pork from the butt.
Are you using the charcoal pan that came with the Brinkman? If you are it doesn't aloud enough air to get to the coals and prevent the smoker from getting higher temp. If you look at the mods for a Brinkman you will find the charcoal pan is one of the mods, either modifying the pan or replacing it.
Those are the only real different there is. Because the shoulder is leaner if you try to cook it fast you are going dry it out. The butt because it is heavily fat marbled is very forgiving. I have cook them with high heat and have them cook in 4 hour for slicing and low and slow for 12 hour for...
My conclusions are they are both delicious.
They both took the almost same time to cook, both were just over 8 pounds, the IT stay within 2 degrees until I foiled then. I foiled the shoulder first and it finished 20 mins faster.
After pulling and removing the remaining fat they were...
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