Cookie's Picnic Shoulders

[mikecorn.1]

Nice looking butts Mike!
What's up with the last pic, for some reason I can only see a small piece of it. Unless its my phone


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[Old Hickory]

Picnic's @ $.89/# ----SCORE, and your cook looks great.  The skin--- pork rinds?

[muebe]

Nice looking butts Mike!
What's up with the last pic, for some reason I can only see a small piece of it. Unless its my phone


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Must be your phone.

Picnic's @ $.89/# ----SCORE, and your cook looks great.  The skin--- pork rinds?

Yes but a special way of doing them. First time trying it.

[Old Hickory]

I'm looking forward to seeing your ideas on pork rinds.

[mikecorn.1]

Nice looking butts Mike!
What's up with the last pic, for some reason I can only see a small piece of it. Unless its my phone


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Must be your phone.

Picnic's @ $.89/# ----SCORE, and your cook looks great.  The skin--- pork rinds?

Yes but a special way of doing them. First time trying it.

Weird. This is what I see



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[muebe]

Weird Mike. All the pictures are good on my phone and iPad...

[muebe]

Ok time to pull them. Bones came out easily...





Two full trays! There was a ton of usable meat and very little fat...







The taste is outstanding! Chris was right. The Cookie's and Molasses is a great combination. These shoulders were a fantastic deal for 0.89 cents a lb.

They pulled easily and were very moist. This will all be packaged up and vac sealed for future consumption.

[mikecorn.1]

Dayum! That looks so good. Nice!


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[Ka Honu]

Did you weigh the product to see what your yield was?

[Savannahsmoker]

Great pic story an I want some cracklins please sir.

[muebe]

Did you weigh the product to see what your yield was?

11 1/2 lbs of pulled pork. Did not weigh the skin.

[muebe]

All bagged up and into the chest freezer. 13 bags with around 3 full cups each(some have more). I should be good for a while

[Ka Honu]

... 11 1/2 lbs of pulled pork. Did not weigh the skin.

So your yield was 46.56% of 24.7 pounds raw weight.  If you "normally" get about 60% yield from boneless, the same weight of product (11.5 pounds) would require 19.1 pounds raw.  You could pay $1.15 per pound for the same amount of pulled butt as you got at $.89 for picnic (but you wouldn't have the chicarrones).

I'm not sure what any of that means except that if my math is correct and you have no real reason to buy one or the other and you don't care about the chicarrones, I think we should consider 20-22% price differential as a "break-even" guideline between picnic and butt.

[muebe]

Turtle I usually don't pay that low($1.15) for boneless butts from Costco so these ended up being a very good deal

So now back to the Chicharrónes.

Here they are after being dehydrated at 170F for 10.5 hours...



They had the consistency of a dry noodle. I got this idea from a restaurant featured on Triple D. You dehydrate then fry. So I fired up the fryer to 375F and proceeded to finish them.

So I dropped the, in the fryer and just like on the show they sank. Then they puffed up and floated to the top within 20 seconds and were done...







I sprinkled them with a little jalapeño salt. They are good but really crunchy. Not as "puffed" as store bought brand. They are like the smaller, slightly over cooked pieces you find in the store bought bag.

I am not that experienced at making Chicharrónes so maybe I left on too much fat or cut them too small. Or could just be that is the way the restaurant serves them.

[Tenpoint5]

 Every now and then I can wear this shirt! This is one of them times,