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01-20-2012, 10:23 AM | #1 |
Got rid of the matchlight.
Join Date: 01-18-12
Location: Lucan, Ontario
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18 lbs of Pork Shoulder
G'day Everyone
Next weekend I am doing an 18# whole pork shoulder for the Mother in law's birthday. I have done picnics and butts before but not the whole shoulder. People are coming over around 7:30 Friday night. I have searched and read a bunch of threads on the subject and this is the plan I have come up with: ( I am using a Weber Genesis S-330) Rub the pork Wednesday night and let sit for at least 24 hours. Strart the q up and get my Hickory wood chips smoking Get the temp stable around 225 and put the pork on Smoke for 6 hours (indirect) Total cook time of 16-20 hours or until the pork is around 200 or the bones come out freely Does this sound about right? |
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01-20-2012, 10:28 AM | #2 |
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Sounds about right. Personally i would cook hotter, around 250 or so. There isn't anything magical with 225. i would also have an extra tank of propane
Give yourself extra time just in case. If the shoulder is done early you can wrap it in foil and put it into a dry cooler wrapped up in towels and it will stay hot for hours.
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01-20-2012, 10:47 AM | #3 |
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Join Date: 09-14-11
Location: Geneva, IL
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The biggest thing I've learned with Pork is that you can hold it forever, but you can't rush it.
I would leave yourself plenty of time to cook it, you can aways hold it in an oven at 200 or wrapped in a cooler. I say cook at 250 also, you will shave some hours off your cook. I've been doing my butts at 275 lately and been really liking the results. It not that they are better then the ones I did at 225, they are the same just cooked quicker. |
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01-20-2012, 10:52 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: 03-06-11
Location: Hillsdale,Mi.
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250 to 275 works best for us also ...... good luck ..
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01-20-2012, 01:44 PM | #5 |
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Join Date: 07-14-09
Location: Lake Sinclair, GA
Name/Nickname : Hance
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I cook whole shoulders, 17-21# regularly. They're my favorite, because I can't really decide which is best between the butt or the picnic; best to just have both! :-)
On my smoker, which is a reverse flow and has a little of a convection type of thing going on, it doesn't take me any longer to smoke a 20# whole shoulder as it does a 9# butt. I think it's because the meat is no more dense or thick. Anyway, I and we (the team) smoke around the 250-260 range and have had very good success here. I inject, and I then foil around that 4.5 hour mark. They're DONE DONE DONE between that 9th and 10th hour. As far as rubs and injections, I rub only an hour or so before I put the meat on the smoker. For one thing, if you have much salt in that rub, sitting overnight can get you a pretty salty piece of meat (IMHO). We also inject at that same time, usually within 2 hours of going on smoke. For ease, once you've finished with the smoke (for us it's 4.5 hours, sounds like you're wanting 6), you can move this indoors and into your oven, which tends to hold temperatures better. Again, 255 would be a great setting. I've had them wrapped for 10 hours before and still piping hot when we opened them up for pulling... I do prefer them wrapped for 1 to 2 hours though; 1 minimum. They just seem to become that-much-more moist.
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01-24-2012, 02:12 PM | #6 |
Got rid of the matchlight.
Join Date: 01-18-12
Location: Lucan, Ontario
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Thanks for all the suggestions> I will let you all know how it turns out
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01-24-2012, 04:54 PM | #7 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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Location: Pemberton, New Jersey
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