My Memorial Day Butt - first time for foiling

[retread]

Actually started several months ago when I got a good deal on a butt.  Kept it in the freezer for an "opportune time" and friday evening I decide this was it so I hauled it out and started the defrost in the fridge.  Sunday night, I had this:

built my rub:

I don't use mustard so this is what it looked like, opened up and ready to rub:

It had a heavy duty fat cap on the other side which I finally decided just to score and leave on:

2 shots of the rubbed butt:

Wrapped up and rested in the fridge from about 8:00 PM Sunday night to 6:30 AM Monday morning:

Threw him in the GOSM big block with hickory and let him go. Temps (Mav 732) 230 - 250 until about 3:00 PM when he hit 165 internal.  I've never foiled before, but i tried it today.  At 6:00 PM he hit 205 and I wrapped a second layer of foil around him and followed that with a towel.  Rested him in a smll cooler for just about an hour when his IT went first to 207 and then started dropping.  I opened him up at 7:00 to find this:

Started pulling, but there were only two of us so I stopped half way:

You see the bone there.... and the final meal:

Tastey, tastey and a bunch of leftovers!  Thanks for looking.

 

[adiochiro3]

Nice!  It's a great moment when that bone falls out clean like that!  Good eats!!

 

[SmokinAl]

Great job, you know they are gonna be good when you can just pull the bone out!   

 

[africanmeat]

yah it looks good

thanks

 

[mrmeatcutter]

Looks great!

 

[johntroxel]

So which way is better?  I have been debating not foiling which I have always done in the past.

 

[sqwib]

Great Job

 

[realtorterry]

I'll take the other half that you didn't shread!

 

[fpnmf]

Awesome!!!

 Great money shot!!

  Craig

 

[retread]

I really miss the crusty bark, but a 7.8 pound butt was done in 12 hours.  The other really good thing was that a lot of the "pan gravy" was held in the foil.  I added that to the leftover meat, once I pulled it and my bride hasn't stopped raving.  I'm torn. I like em both.

To everybody else, thanks fro your compliments!

 

[Bearcarver]

Looks Great from  my house!

Sorry about your bone falling out.

Bear

 

[bigeyedavid]

Wow im hungry for some pork looking good.

 

[happy2meatu]

Looks quite tasty... gonna try my first pork shoulder for shredding soon. Thanks for the post!

 

[raptor700]

Great job on the pork Retread,

Nice pics too

Thanks for sharin'

 

[hmcm]

Way to go!  That's awesome eats there!

 

[ugaboz]

nice