Weekend Butts!

[retfr8flyr]

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.

[smokeasaurus]

Looks like you are off and running.

Looking forward to how they look later on............

[Big Dawg]

Two questions:

• How do you do your carnitas?
• Why only five temp probes?  You know that one butt really feels like an outcast ! ! !

BD

[Roget]

That's a lot of pork!
I envy your ambition. I've never done that many butts at one time.

[retfr8flyr]

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.

[retfr8flyr]

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.

[Big Dawg]

Looks really good, Earl ! ! !

Can't wait to see the carnitas !





BD

[GusRobin]

looks great --did you inject? What rub did you use?

[HighOnSmoke]

Awesome!

[Pam Gould]

It all looks good to me..I did 1 butt last week..never did that many...☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.

[retfr8flyr]

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.

[Roget]

Looks great. 

[Lines]

Looking Good!

[Pappymn]

Looks like you got some great bark


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[RAD]

Now we're talking. Looks really great. Love to see how the Carnitas come out