To Wrap a Pork Butt or To Not Wrap A Pork Butt

[lancep]

One of the great things about old threads being resurrected is that it proves people had the same questions years ago they have today. Another thing it proves is there's no one way, or "right" way, to smoke a butt. Every butt I've smoked talks to me. They say, "What do you want, Ray?" I experimented until I found the answer that was right for me. And that method has changed several times. The great thing is that butts are the perfect meat to experiment on and they always taste delicious.

And yes, I'm seeking counseling for the butt voices in my head.

Absolutely Ray, ever since the first person built a pit with cinder blocks instead of digging a whole in the ground folks have been arguing about what is the right way. I go back and forth on the shoulder section. Whole shoulder, picnic, butt, chopped, pulled, etc. doesn’t matter it’s all delicious. I’ve always wrapped myself. That’s how I was taught and it’s never let me down. On the Peter hand I experimented with paper on the last one and it was the bees knees!

Lance

 

[flash gordon m.d.]

you guys that don't wrap, how long does the stall last when it hits ??....I know the stall happened to me at bout 155/160 before I found foiling before 150 keeps the meat going up in temp until 205....I did three 11lb shoulders for slices and pulled foiling at 145 tops, until it hit 205 then towels and cooler for bout a 1.5....all three shoulders were done under 6 hours, I even foiled my first brisket a45 and did not stall at all as well, came out great....

what temp was the smoker?