1st Pork Butt on Traeger PTG Tailgate unit

[muebe]

Looks great Pete!

Manual mode is a good fallback to run the PTG

[smoker pete]

Looks great Pete!

Manual mode is a good fallback to run the PTG

Thanks Mike.  Right now I'm tired of playing with those parameters and getting questionable stability.  In the manual mode I can do me some smoking/cooking 

[Old Dave]

Nice cook Pete with great color. I need to try a butt on my little cooker.

[Wing Commander]

Great cook!

[SiFumar]

Now that does look good!  I like meals like that...pork and pintos!

[squirtthecat]

Very nice!

[Sam3]

Now that does look good!  I like meals like that...pork and pintos!

X2!!

[Hub]

Looks like foiling at the "wrong" IT didn't matter a bit!  Good lookin' cook 

Pork butt is a very forgiving chunk of critter.  My recipe and approach are similar to yours but I've found that wide variances don't usually hurt anything.  So long as you don't just way, way overcook it and dry the thing out or way, way undercook it and have it come out tough, it'll work.  There is a big "sweet spot" of time and temperature.

Thanks for a great post!

Hub

[TMB]

Looks great!   I don't think you need the sauce, the meat looks like it would be great just the way it is.

Only down side to foiling, Kimmie does not get her bark and that does not make her happy (so I don't foil often)