Family Picnic PP mini Q View + thanks

[manman]

3rd times a charm.  After 2 pork butt smokes that were 'good' and 'decent' respectively, today things finally came together for me.  Good thing too, those first 2 were just for home consumption, this last one was for a family bbq.  I have to thanks some of the other members here who gave me advice on my smoke last week + a lot of credit to SoFlaQuer for that great finishing sauce + the carolina bbq sauce.  Tweaked it just a bit to my taste, but it was mostly his.  Also Dutch for the famous baked beans recipe.  This one was a family favorite already and they requested I do it again :)

Butt had excellent bark, and was moist & flavorful all the way through (last one had good bark but rather bland inner meat).  Got lots of compliments, but some of the best were-  a comment from a big bbq fan that she thought it was better than one of our best known bbq spots here, and the best compliment- 2 'vegitarians' saw it as it was being pulled, and decided they had to have some, hahaha.

just a mini q view, by the time I had a spare minute to take a pic the first tray was already on it's way to disappearing.  Need to start remembering to take earlier pics 

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[chef jimmyj]

Great Job...JJ

 

[so ms smoker]

Good job!  Nothing like converting the vegetarians!

Mike

 

[johnnie walker]

Sounds like you're getting it all figured out. That PP looks fantastic!! Converting vegetarians. Priceless!!!!  LOL!!!

 

[ybfm]

Oh man!  Nice looking Q!  Great job!!!

Rich

 

[frosty]

Looks outstanding! Good job!!!

 

[ronrude]

Wow, vegetarians even had to taste.  I can't think of a bigger honor than that.  I now have a new goal.

 

[rstr hunter]

Looks great. 

 

[startedsmokin]

Anything particular you did differently this time?
Looks great Thumbs Up

 

[scarbelly]

Looks great - congrats 

 

[smokinhusker]

Looks great and you got vegetarians to eat it...

 

[manman]

Thanks all!

Anything particular you did differently this time?
Looks great

I think it was a few things.  For one, I think I nailed the rub this time- first time was too salty, second I put too little trying to correct it AND I put too much spice since I accidentally swapped tsp for tbsp haha.  That wasn't as much of a problem since I like spicy food, but this rub came together much better than either of those.  Also started the fire using the 'ring w/ a gap' method, instead of a complete ring w/ a hole in the middle for the lit coals + used fewer lit to start.  I don't think that played much of a difference other than making it a little easier to control temp in the beginning.  The major difference was probably that I was more patient & built in more error time for how long it would take.  I think I took my last ones off a little too early and didn't give enough time to rest.  This one was double foiled and in a cooler with towels and NO empty space for probably about 45 min or so.  

Looked SO juicy as it was being pulled- it took way more discipline than I usually have not to just start putting pieces in my mouth as I was pulling it.  I usually do, but everyone was watching me.  I call them 'vegitarians' with quotes because they only switched in the last year or so- a younger cousin and her friend that just graduated from one of those granola colleges haha.   They aren't those kind of hardened 'activist' type vegitarians.  

 

[dragonmaster194]

Good looking Q!!!  Glad it all came togather for you at family time.  I always worry about that, what will family think of this?  Most times it just comes out fine.  Keep on keeping on.  Steve