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Offline Cajunate

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Sweet Butts!
« Reply #-1 on: June 15, 2016, 06:49:13 PM »

I decided to use my Traeger to smoke two butts that come up to just under twenty four pounds. Both got a good slathering of Louisiana honey and then rubbed down with two different rubs. One was a homemade rub a friend gave me and the other was New Orleans original Firehouse Backdraft Butt & BBQ Rub. The one on the left is the homemade rub which is a bit more sweeter than the other. They went on about 10:00 this morning.



After seven hours at 171* internal temperature.




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Re: Sweet Butts!
« on: June 15, 2016, 07:06:33 PM »
Looking good and I sure do like the bark you put on those Butts.
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Sweet Butts!
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2016, 07:13:21 PM »
Look outstanding!!!
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Sweet Butts!
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2016, 07:30:53 PM »
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2016, 07:45:21 PM »
Looks great - can't wait to see the final product.  My mouth is already watering.
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2016, 10:43:53 PM »
Must be a long stall  ;)    They sure look good after 7 hours. Wanna see em all finished up and then the pulled shots  :)
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2016, 02:43:13 AM »
They look good well on their way to being some fine PP.
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2016, 03:39:40 AM »
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2016, 04:57:18 AM »
Lookin mighty fine!  :)
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #8 on: June 16, 2016, 05:44:05 AM »
NICE butts..I can say that in here..lol.  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #9 on: June 16, 2016, 07:54:22 AM »

About 8:20 pm last night the butts were done. I brought them inside and let them sit on the counter until they were cool enough to pull which was about 10 pm.





They were so tender it was hard to keep 'em from falling apart when removing from the Traeger.



They have an excellent smoke ring and flavor.



No pictures of them pulled. I'll get more pictures later today.

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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2016, 08:03:12 AM »
Looks amazing!!
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2016, 08:30:10 AM »
Looking good waiting on the final pictures
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #12 on: June 16, 2016, 10:06:21 AM »
Those look great. I love the color.
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Re: Sweet Butts!
« Reply #13 on: June 16, 2016, 10:20:47 AM »
Those really turned out nice.
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