Competition Test Cooking (3) - Pork Butt

[Ron_L]

Originally Posted by thirdeye

Ron, I must have misunderstood what you were saying... I thought you were implying that there is no way to break down and box in only 15 or 20 minutes and expect good results.

Our plan for now is for each guy to take the lead on different meats and have one guy help. This frees up guy #3 to have a little head start (if needed) on the next meat. I just don't want to get luxurious with the time.

Yeah, I probably worded that poorly . I meant that if you spend 20 minutes breaking down one butt, and you cook two or three, you would need to have someone working on pork in parallel since that process could take an hour at that rate for three butts.

For us, as soon as my wife leave the trailer with the rib box I clean up the work station and get things ready for pork so as soon as she walks back in I am pulling th pan out of the Cambro and we get to work.

[ModelMaker]

Originally Posted by Jorge

In a perfect world I like to have chicken at the turn in table when the window opens. This buys us an additional ten minutes to deal with whatever we need to before ribs. If the rib box is ready to go to hit the opening of that window, we still have that additional ten minutes. I generally use some of that for pork. I have more pans and product out for that category than any other as we sort out what we have to turn in. We are also doing some work on burnt ends at that time as well, so the extra time if available is nice.

If Chicken isn't ready to go to hit the opening of the window, it doesn't go. The same applies to all categories. The only thing worse than not having as much time as you'd like, is not using the time that you have and losing points as a result.

"If Chicken isn't ready to go to hit the opening of the window, it doesn't go."

So you sacrifice a category?
Ed

[Jorge]

Originally Posted by ModelMaker

"If Chicken isn't ready to go to hit the opening of the window, it doesn't go."

So you sacrifice a category?
Ed

The key word in that sentence is 'opening'. If it's not waiting to be turned in when the window opens, it will get there before the window closes.

[manmeatbbq]

Originally Posted by gettinbasted

It takes 25 minutes to breakdown pork and build my box. Your instinct about bark is the correct one. Don’t do it unless you know what you’re doing. Below is a link to a video showing me building my box. This box has won the last three team of the years in pork, 2 180s at the Royal and a Jack Daniels World Pork Championship with a perfect 180. Time to switch it all up!

Best of luck!

https://youtu.be/Weh-OloCeqM

I think I found what you are switching it up to look like.

[gettinbasted]

Originally Posted by manmeatbbq

I think I found what you are switching it up to look like.

I have got to tell the camera guys to stop sending out pictures of my pork box!