4am Butts under the Moon

[WaterRat]

Early start, now back to sleep Yes, the temp alarm is set!

 

[912smoker]

In for the finish sleepy head
Remote alarms sure can make things easy....er. in for the finish!

Keith

 

[Brokenhandle]

I'm in too! Loved your Pic!

Ryan

 

[WaterRat]

I didn’t take many pics. Once people started coming over I was pretty busy. First pic is after they’d been on four hours, two different rubs and mops hence the color variation. Next is coming out of the covered pan and getting ready to wrap for the 2-3hr cooler rest. You can see a nice smoke ring where I took a couple chunks off for quality control sampling - hey, pitmaster privilege! They both pulled nice snd were juicy and tender. Maybe some if the best butts I’ve done.

Thanks for looking and enjoy the rest of the weekend!

 

[WaterRat]

I'm in too! Loved your Pic!

Ryan

Thanks!

 

[gmc2003]

They look good Aaron. I hope you got to enjoy the party.

Point for sure
Chris

 

[WaterRat]

They look good Aaron. I hope you got to enjoy the party.

Point for sure
Chris

Thanks Chris! Small gathering but fun. Had to do porkshots after the butts, grill some shortrib galbi beef (that a friend prepped)on the kettle and play bartender. All good. Chillin at said friends pool today…

 

[normanaj]

Looks like some insane yumminess!

 

[912smoker]

Looks great and sounds like a good time was had by all!

Keith

 

[themule69]

Looks tasty!
Happy smokin
David

 

[crazymoon]

WR, Fine looking PP coming up for you and your guests!

 

[WaterRat]

Looks like some insane yumminess!

Indeed! Haven’t done one for a while, good stuff

Looks great and sounds like a good time was had by all!

Keith

Thanks!

Looks tasty!
Happy smokin
David

Looks good and tasted better thnx

WR, Fine looking PP coming up for you and your guests!

Thnx. Crazy, will be eating it for a week plus some in the freezer

 

[DougE]

Looks delicious!

Only thing I will add is that, unless it's a spur of the moment cook, there really is no reason to lose any sleep over a pork butt. Done ahead, it reheats fine and nobody but the cook will be the wiser.

 

[WaterRat]

Looks delicious!

Only thing I will add is that, unless it's a spur of the moment cook, there really is no reason to lose any sleep over a pork butt. Done ahead, it reheats fine and nobody but the cook will be the wiser.

True… but I gotta cook it sometime and it still takes a while. Not enough time after work so Fri night into Sat morning is better than most other options. What I really should have done was start it at 1am right before I went to bed but my smoker is so off in temp from left side to right side I didn’t want to leave it all night without rotating the two. It worked, I lived, all good. Hopefully with the next smoker I can just leave it all night.

 

[cptnding]

Looks delicious!

Only thing I will add is that, unless it's a spur of the moment cook, there really is no reason to lose any sleep over a pork butt. Done ahead, it reheats fine and nobody but the cook will be the wiser.

I agree with that 100% and cooking ahead and reheating is how I do almost all of my pulled pork. However I will say that having some smoke in the air and breaking down the butts in front of everyone seems to make it taste better to a lot of folks lol. Even if you're pulling them out of a cooler. I only do it for a party or something and only if it fits my time frame. At some partys I have reheated via sous vide in the kitchen and had a pellet tray smoking out of a kettle the whole time. People love the smell of smoke when they know food is coming. My wife and I were a little surprised how may people mentioned that is was smelling so good.

 

[DougE]

True… but I gotta cook it sometime and it still takes a while. Not enough time after work so Fri night into Sat morning is better than most other options. What I really should have done was start it at 1am right before I went to bed but my smoker is so off in temp from left side to right side I didn’t want to leave it all night without rotating the two. It worked, I lived, all good. Hopefully with the next smoker I can just leave it all night.

I forgot to add the part where I run hot and fast. I pretty much run °280~300F° on pork butts.

There is no real difference in the finished pulled pork other than I can start the cook early to mid-morning and be finished sooner .......... maybe not by meal time, depending, but in plenty of time to rest and pull before bedtime.