Boston Butt, pulled or sliced?

[fwismoker]

I just smoked some pulled which was incredible but i'm curious as to how many on here only cook to a slicing temperature. If someone cooked to slice it what would that temp be?

 

[pgsmoker64]

I love a good sliced pork sammich!!  Cook to between 175 - 185 IT and you will have perfect pork for slicing!!!

I don't do this often because the crowds demand pulled pork, but every now and then...

Good luck,

Bill

 

[Bearcarver]

I would say 185 to 190.

After 190 or 195 it starts to be hard to slice.

Bear

 

[fwismoker]

I love a good sliced pork sammich!!  Cook to between 175 - 185 IT and you will have perfect pork for slicing!!!

I don't do this often because the crowds demand pulled pork, but every now and then...

Good luck,

Bill

I suppose an alternative for guests would be to pull it at say 185, slice some up and then finish cooking to 190-195 either in the smoker or a crock pot just to finish dissolving the collagen.  Not sure how much trouble that would be, just thinking out loud. 

 

[fpnmf]

Last time I did 2 butts I did one for pulling and one for slicing...

I did take the one for slicing out at 180..

I have heard that some folks take them out at 145...they would prolly be very good at that temp and I might try it sometime....

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   Craig

 

[mountainhawg]

Sliced is the only way my wife wants her pork butt done so that's the way I've been cooking it for 40 years. I love pulled with a good bark but why fight the tide? An IT of 175-185 works well for the sliced. I do not wrap in aluminum foil, towels or anything. I let it cool down naked at room temp and it becomes easier to thin slice the cooler it gets. We either have a gravy made from slices of the darkened ends and sides or just a home made Q sauce or finishing sauce on top of the meat on a roll with slaw as a topper.

 

[oldschoolbbq]

Mountainhawg, says..."Sliced is the only way my wife wants her pork butt done so that's the way I've been cooking it for 40 years. I love pulled with a good bark but why fight the tide?"

Don't fight the tide...get 2 Butts and do 1 your way and one for her... Just sayin'...

Have fun and...

 

[rtbbq2]

sliced comes out at about 180° for the smokin fool....

 

[mountainhawg]

Mountainhawg, says..."Sliced is the only way my wife wants her pork butt done so that's the way I've been cooking it for 40 years. I love pulled with a good bark but why fight the tide?"

Don't fight the tide...get 2 Butts and do 1 your way and one for her... Just sayin'...

Have fun and... While that sounds like a very reasonable idea, our appetites just aren't there like they use to be to cook two butts at once. Ironically when we go to a pig picken', in which the pigs are cooked to pullin' doneness, she absolutely loves the stuff! Husbands just can't win some/most of the time it seems, LOL!!!! 

   

 

[dasmoker]

Mountainhawg, says..."Sliced is the only way my wife wants her pork butt done so that's the way I've been cooking it for 40 years. I love pulled with a good bark but why fight the tide?"

Don't fight the tide...get 2 Butts and do 1 your way and one for her... Just sayin'...

Have fun and...

If only my wife would agree. But alas, its her butt and her butt alone for me. ;)  LOL