Well, I decided to try Mike's HighOnSmoke Peach Pork Butt recipe. So while at Costco I went ahead and picked up a boneless pork shoulder butt. I followed Mike's recipe just as he has it posted. The only difference, since I had such a large piece of meat, I doubled the injection.
I wanted to try something different so I left the meat in the cryovac. I just cut out a window on the the top side of the package leaving the cryovac still high up on the shoulders of the package. This left plenty of room to inject and reach all sides and depth. I placed the package in a large aluminum foil pan and injected away. This worked out very good and all the injection stayed inside of the cryovac. I used some saran wrap to cover the window and into the fridge for 24 hours.
Yesterday morning I removed it from the fridge and the cryovac. It was already cut into two pieces of equal sizes. I applied the first coating of Sweet Seduction rub. Went outside and started up my Traeger and set it for 225* After about 15 minutes I applied a heavy coat of Pecan rub. Then used some cooking twine to tie up the pork pieces since the bone had been removed so that each was a nice large chunk of meat neatly packaged.
Into the Traeger. The piece next to the exhaust reached 162* IT first. Removed it and foiled it with a splash of apple juice. Returned to Traeger and moved the other piece next to the exhaust side and the foiled piece in the center. Increased the temp to 250*. An hour later the second piece was also at 162* IT so foiled it with a touch of apple juice too.
The first piece in the center reached 198* IT and I removed it. The second piece also reached 198* IT 30 minutes later. The entire process took about 10 hours.
I let both rest for a little over an hour before pulling. The meat was very, very moist and tasted great. Will I do this again. Sure will. Only next time I will omit the foil stage at 162* and let it just go all the way natural. I just love the bark better doing it the non foiled way. However, you can't loose either way.
My wife and I used ZipLock quart bags to make up 1 LB packages to be frozen for latter use and for little gifts for the kids to take home after they visit. Of course we had pulled pork sandwiches for dinner. I messed up and forgot to get the coleslaw. Next time.
I didn't take any pictures of the meat cooking or pulled because they look exactly like what Mike already posted.
Thanks to Mike, HighOnSmoke for the recipe and for sharing. Mmmmm good.
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