I think me and Mr Dee Stafford were on the same wave length early Saturday morning. We both were cooking pork butts with about the same recipe and method. Our cookers were a little different and the rub used was different but everything else was about the same.
I started by trimming all the fat off the outside of the butts. I then injected them with Chris Lilly’s pork injection. Next step was to cover them with a generous amount of Slab’s pork rub. They went into the fridge overnight for about 6 hours.
About 2:30am Saturday morning, I fired up the cooker and got my butts ready for the fire.
Just out of the fridge.
Ready to go on the cooker.
I got them loaded about 3:00am and set the temp to 150 degrees for the first 2 hours which will give me some extra smoke during this first period.
Raised the temp to 275 and cooked and smoked the butts until the color and bark looked right (about 6 hrs) and took them off the cooker for the foil wrap.
Looked good enough to eat now but still not done.
Each butt was wrapped in foil with a half a bottle of the Stubb’s Pork Marinade and then back into the cooker. They cooked an additional 2 hours and I pulled them at 205 internal and quickly opened the foil for about 15 minutes to set the bark and then wrapped up again and rested for about 2 hours.
Pulled the butts and ended up with 9 pounds of product.
I mixed up a light blend of my catering sauce and added it to the meat. I then added some finely ground rub to the meat and mixed it all up and it was ready to be bagged.
Gonna be some happy folks at the local Ford dealership come Monday about noon.
