Well, it all started out great; I had a twin pack of Boston Butts just and nice as they could be. I read several post on how to cook them, different rubs and weather or not to spritz with apple juice or not. So I started out with a nice layer of yellow mustard then a rub that I can up from looking at several others post (Thanks to anyone who spent the time to post information about pulled pork rubs). The rub consisted of brown sugar, salt, black pepper, a little cayenne pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and then I stuffed them with 10 pieces of fresh garlic each….MMMMmmm!!!!!. I rubbed my butts down with mustard first, then with the mixture, let them rest in the refrigerator for about 12 hrs. So I had everything going good, then I started having concerns about how long it may take to smoke these butts (due to some post that I read). The more I thought about it, the more I worried that I wouldn’t have it ready for 12 noon, I had 9-12 people coming to eat. So after I celebrated the New Year with the wife and kids at midnight. I decided that I would get a jump on smoking my butts. At about 12:30am I fired up the smoker (which I had cleaned earlier and had the wood in it already, all it needed was to be lit) and by 12:45am I was ready to put the meat in. My wife and kids had given me a meat probe, so I was playing with trying to figure out how it works. I didn’t have a place to put the base so my son and I came up with the ideal to use a ladder to set it on about 2 ft from the smoker. OK now it’s going on 2am and everything is going great. I went in to watch a movie with the kids, I had the timer set and everything was looking great. I planned on checking on it again at around 3:30a, well I was ancy and couldn’t wait any longer, so at about 3:20a I went to check on it. Well, here is where it all started falling apart, as I walked to the back door I noticed a strange yellow glow through the curtain, once I opened the door then I noticed the “FIRE!!!” Thinking that it was the grease off the butts I really didn’t know what to do. So I walked closer and noticed that the gas line that connected to the burner broke loose. So I just shut off the bottle and the 3ft flame went out…. Luckily…. Well once I thought I had everything under control I happen to notice that the ladder was still on “Fire” so I grabbed the hose and put it out. So now it rounding 3:45a and I have 2 butts that are getting cold fast. I grabbed the foil and turned the oven on and went outside to foil the butts, rapped them with foil really well and added a little apple juice and finished them in the oven. Well by 7a they were 195 deg. I turned the oven off to let them cool, by the time everyone started showing up for lunch they were perfect!! What a way to bring in the New Year !!! LOL….So here are some Q-views
