Nice ferm...looks good. Willy, checked out ur other site a while back and loved the "bloomin onions" that were hot at the time. Still haven't done it but planning to.

At the restaurant, we cooked as many as 18 butts at the time...always specified 8 lbers and of course, bone in. Held 225* consistently through out the 8 hr cook time, cooking the 1st 6 hrs nekkid and finishing up double wrapped in HD foil for the last 2 hrs. Prep was cold water rinse, vinegar rub down (we kept spray bottles full of vinegar all the time) and plenty of a special rub we used. We cooked 'em up w/all the fat on for MAX flavor and de-fatted during the pulling/shredding process...like you, Ferm...rewarding to pop that bone out and easily pull the sections apart for shredding.

The pink smoke ring and rich flavor we got consistently fooled a lot of veteran smokers...left them flat footed when I told them our cookers were gas fired...let many of them back to the pit to see, cuz they just didn't believe what they were eating didn't come from wood til they saw it for themselves...

Still do 'em same way, only w/6lbers at home w/same result...:party:

Cooked two 8 pound butts yesterday as we have family coming in to visit in 2 days, plus I wanted to give some to my boss and a coworker. Put them on at 4:30 AM and one came off at 8 PM and the other at 8:30 PM.

Before
https://forum.ih8mud.com/data/xfmg/t...jpg?1709556778

After
https://forum.ih8mud.com/data/xfmg/t...jpg?1709556785

I should have taken pics after I pulled and chopped it. Man, do I love the bark!


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Looks reeeeeeeaaaally good Pipe. Nothing like a pulled pork butt (or 2).

Stop it nowww , I’m. Drooling . I want the crust. Looks reely good . And a bowl of rice on 5he side. Franks hot sauce,I put that !!!! On everything

So Step, how hot is Franks? I love hot stuff, but not battery acid hot. I built houses for a bunch of tech folks from India - they’re not only wonderful neighbors, they introduced me to Maggie Hot & Sweet sauce. It’s very interesting stuff, it’s just hot, sweet and tasty until you get enough in one bite and it’s like a switch flips and it’s a lot hotter. I love the stuff. It’s good on a cheese sandwich and I do scrambled eggs with shredded cheese and Maggie sauce mixed in - really good in the morning.

Got some deer sticks to smoke tomorrow only 4 lb. So got a pork butt out to put in also. I can't cook but like making sticks, bolongna and stuff in the smoker.

Smoking and cooking are mutually exclusive :beer:

just got the sticks out of the ice bath. They r good! butt still has a bunch of time yet.