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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: retfr8flyr on January 19, 2019, 07:08:40 AM

Title: Weekend Butts!
Post by: retfr8flyr on January 19, 2019, 07:08:40 AM
Doing some butts today on my Timberline 1300. Man I love the space this grill gives me. Five are for pulled pork BBQ and one is seasoned for some Carnitas.


(https://i.postimg.cc/mZtSnTSc/butts2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/F1Xcd58m)
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: smokeasaurus on January 19, 2019, 09:23:59 AM
Looks like you are off and running.

Looking forward to how they look later on............
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Big Dawg on January 19, 2019, 11:37:27 AM
Two questions:





BD
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Roget on January 19, 2019, 03:22:06 PM
That's a lot of pork!
I envy your ambition. I've never done that many butts at one time.
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: retfr8flyr on January 20, 2019, 11:56:54 AM
Two questions:
  • How do you do your carnitas?
  • Why only five temp probes?  You know that one butt really feels like an outcast ! ! !





BD

This is my first attempt at Carnitas and I don't know yet how it turned out. I will be pulling the Carnitas one this week and trying it out. I did all the probes because this is the first cook with the grill heavily loaded and I wanted to check out the temp variations across the grill on both racks. I was very impressed, all the butts were within a few degrees of each other.
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: retfr8flyr on January 20, 2019, 12:01:46 PM
Well guys and gals the cook came out great and I beat the rain. I cooked these with LJ Comp blend pellets at 225° for 9hrs, on Super Smoke setting and then bumped it up to 250° to make sure I beat the rain. I cooked these straight through, no spritzing, or wrapping, I have found that I prefer the bark created this way. Everything came out great and I pulled, wrapped and put in coolers at the 14th hour. I gave 3 of these to my kids for their dinners and pulled one of them for ours. I have cooked a lot of butts in my lifetime but I honestly think this was the best one I have ever done. The bark was fantastic and the flavor was over the top. The kids all texted me that theirs were the best they had ever had. I am really loving this new 1300 and I am so glad I was able to get it. Here are a couple shots of the finished product. I hope to try the Carnitas one next week, I hope it is as good as the BBQ ones.

(https://i.postimg.cc/sft5ydJ6/pbutts5.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/t7NstcwW)

(https://i.postimg.cc/jjJ8xQ7P/pbutt.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/SXkLV9Vx)

(https://i.postimg.cc/Z5n7ghYf/pbutt1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RWrL6yHf)

(https://i.postimg.cc/Qdz4ZnHj/pbutt2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dh8m862f)

(https://i.postimg.cc/d1P5Lk2X/pbutt4.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/67crPQ1L)
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Big Dawg on January 20, 2019, 01:22:50 PM
Looks really good, Earl ! ! !

Can't wait to see the carnitas !





BD
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: GusRobin on January 20, 2019, 01:49:19 PM
looks great --did you inject? What rub did you use?
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: HighOnSmoke on January 20, 2019, 02:19:24 PM
Awesome!
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Pam Gould on January 20, 2019, 03:04:23 PM
It all looks good to me..I did 1 butt last week..never did that many...☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: retfr8flyr on January 20, 2019, 03:53:07 PM
looks great --did you inject? What rub did you use?

Thanks. No injection and they are plenty juicy, I have never messed with injecting butts. I just used a home made rub, nothing fancy, just the basics but it works well. With all these butts I couldn't afford the expensive commercial rubs.
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Roget on January 20, 2019, 04:02:27 PM
Looks great.  :thumbup:
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Lines on January 20, 2019, 04:17:55 PM
Looking Good!
Title: Weekend Butts!
Post by: Pappymn on January 20, 2019, 07:18:49 PM
Looks like you got some great bark


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Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: RAD on January 21, 2019, 12:06:02 PM
Now we're talking. Looks really great. Love to see how the Carnitas come out
Title: Re: Weekend Butts!
Post by: TentHunteR on January 21, 2019, 05:37:37 PM
Very nice. I'd hammer some of that in a heartbeat!