I know this is an old thread but I wanted to add to it since I was looking for an alternate method for doing butts and I was copying Hub's method and thought someone else might do the same. I, too, am cheap, but I chose this method because I didn't want to be pulling pork late into the evening from an early morning start. I had 2 butts, each just over 7 pounds that were still a bit frozen in the center at the start. I figured I would smoke 4 hours at 175ish and move them to the 235* oven at 9:00 PM and then finish the next day. They had IT's of about 130* when they went into the oven. I got up to check them at about 1:30 AM and found them done with IT's of 197 and 202! Well, they were foiled so I shut the oven off and went back to bed. At about 5:30 they were around 145* so I yanked them and then pulled them. I was expecting a much longer cook even without a stall, but 8.5 hours total was all it was.
Even though I didn't inject them they were the moistest butts I've smoked and the bark was a real surprise; it was there for one thing, not like unfoiled but good never the less.
I will be using this method again, for sure, but compared to Hub's butts and cook times it appears that a pound or two difference makes a big difference in cook time.
Dean
