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  1. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

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    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    This is kind of an all in one reply... It was boneless, so no bone to test with, but when I started pulling it apart, it really did kind of fall apart.  As it was 11:30/Midnight, I broke it up, pulled some (for a test sandwich) and put the rest in a bowl and put it in the fridge.  I'll be...
  4. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    Ok...and we're done.  I'm letting it rest now, but here's the butt as it came out of the smoker!
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    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    This is an adventure that started at 9:30 this morning.  Smoker is steady right now at 232.  IT of Pork is 196.  Almost there...probably another hour.
  8. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    It's all good.  Now that the sun has gone down, my smoker has cooled off a little...back down to original of 232.  Pork is at 187 and slowly rising.  I plan to pull it off at 200 and let it rest.  It's a slow climb right now, but I'm willing to see it through.  I'm convinced that it'll all be...
  9. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    I meant to respond to this earlier.  This particular ball valve isn't just a on/off.  It is adjustable, and given my experience today, it's doing a nice job keeping the temp down.  It's going to take me some time to really dial in the adjustments, but so far so good. Kurt
  10. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    Does it make sense that I might be stalled at 169?  Temp of smoker has climbed to 250, but IT has been at 169 for a while.  Again, I'm trusting the "cook to" temp...I'm planning on getting it to 200 before removing it and letting it rest. Trust the process...
  11. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    Ok, so the update here is that it had leveled out around 232-234, but it's now creeping up in temp and my guess is that it's due to the sun and overall temp here.  It's creeped up to 241.  I'm thinking about not worrying about it for now.  IT of Pork is 129.
  12. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    Ok, so I didn't expect it to take so long to come back up to temp when I put in the pork, the water pan, etc.  It's just NOW hit 228 with a pork temp of 108.  My guess is that this will cause it to need to cook longer.  Anything I need to worry about?  It doesn't feel like it, but this is my...
  13. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    Ok, so we're smokin!  Ball valve seems to be working fine.  I had to tweak quite a bit until I got a consistent temp around what I want.  Right now it's sitting at about 234.  Good enough for me! I was so caught up in making sure the smoker was keeping good temp that I forgot to take "before"...
  14. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    Update: I went to Lowe's and picked up what should suffice to throttle back the propane: http://www.lowes.com/pd/BrassCraft-3-8-in-x-1-2-in-Threaded-Flare-x-MIP-Adapter-Adapter-Fitting/50380930 and http://www.lowes.com/pd/BrassCraft-1-2-in-x-3-8-in-Threaded-Adapter-Adapter-Fitting/50380828...
  15. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    So, it looks like there's two valves there...the red portion and a smaller one to the right of that.  Do I have that correct?
  16. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    It's a Propane Masterbuilt Gas Smokehouse.  I agree there's something wrong.  Doing some research, folks have said I need to install a needle valve.  No idea how to do that, so for now, this is what I have.  Kurt
  17. kurt boutin

    First time with boneless pork shoulder...

    So, after reading a bunch of posts, I'm still left with a number of questions: My smoker won't get below 300 degrees, in general (and with the heat wave we're having, it's not likely to).  I have a good digital thermometer, so cooking to temp is the plan. Big questions: Inject?  Pros/Cons...
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    Today's Drums and Thighs smoke...

    So, I opted to give smoking another shot on my Masterbuilt Propane Smoker.  For those of you who remember me, my smoker runs hot...close to 300 degrees at its lowest setting.  For what I wanted to do with the chicken, it turns out it was perfect.  I'd heard from folks at Amazing Ribs that you do...
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