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Old 12-08-2010, 09:56 AM   #1
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Hello all,

I hope I am not repeating discussion, but I am going to be doing a Butt or two this weekend on my UDS. I have read discussion on doing hot and fast and low and slow. I am usually somewhere in the middle as I tend to cook around 250-275. I usually don't use any foil for the entire cook, but I want to try it out on the UDS. Do you recommend I wrap the butts in sheet foil or to put the butts in a foil pan with juice and then cover that with sheet foil? Thanks for any help.
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Old 12-08-2010, 10:46 AM   #2
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Use a heat deflector of some type (I use a 15"Ø terracotta potting dish from HD wrapped in foil) and do them right on the grate at 225°-250°. No foil req'd!
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Old 12-08-2010, 11:01 AM   #3
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Use a heat deflector of some type (I use a 15"Ø terracotta potting dish from HD wrapped in foil) and do them right on the grate at 225°-250°. No foil req'd!
The heat isn't really the issue for me. There is some fire management required due to the rendered fat dripping onto the coals, but that's not the main concern. I was just wondering if those who have done either or both have a preference.

One problem with my last few butts is that I have had to let them go all the way to 215 to get pull-able meat. I wondered if the foiling methods might help with that as well.
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One problem with my last few butts is that I have had to let them go all the way to 215 to get pull-able meat. I wondered if the foiling methods might help with that as well.
Cook til the bone will pull clean and the meat fills like buttuh' w/ a fork. It's done when it's done and I'm learning more and more not to go by IT, but I've never even heard of cooking to 215 IT. I suspect you've got a faulty therm.
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...Do you recommend I wrap the butts in sheet foil or to put the butts in a foil pan with juice and then cover that with sheet foil? Thanks for any help.
I've done them both ways, and haven't seen much difference except that with the foil pan there's less chance of a leak. Either way, you'll wind up with softer bark and a quicker shot through the stall, than without foil. I've made moist and tender butts with and without foil, but I've never taken one to 215 except by accident once....mush! By 195 to 200 the bone should wiggle free without hardly any resistance, and a probe should insert like butter. I agree with Dave Russell, it might be time to calibrate your thermometer?
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The heat isn't really the issue for me. There is some fire management required due to the rendered fat dripping onto the coals, but that's not the main concern. I was just wondering if those who have done either or both have a preference.

One problem with my last few butts is that I have had to let them go all the way to 215 to get pull-able meat. I wondered if the foiling methods might help with that as well.
With a deflector there will be no grease dripping on the coals.
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My personal preference is for butts done without foiling or panning. But, if you do foil and pan, you will end up with a good product as well. There is always the problem of spilling that pan of drippings all over yourself afterwards, or that may just be me.

I like the harder crisper bark with no foil. The softer bark formed by foiling is preferred by some though. You will get to 200F to 205F which is as hot as I ever go with a butt.
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i have done it both ways, its easyer to just wrap with foil, and i hae never cooked one past 205, I normaly just do a bone test and dont worry about the actual temp
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I think you guys might be on to something by telling me to test my thermometer. I'll test the thermo tonight.

On another note, I have never yet had a bone to wiggle freely. I don't know if it's the quality of meat that I use or what, but I have had perfectly done meat and the bone was still holding fast.

Thanks to those who gave help on the foil issue. I will try one with the pan and one with the sheet just for farts and giggles.
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I typically use a foil pan on the deflector, then the meat on top of the grate. I've tried wrapping in foil, but sometimes you can get a leak (and mess). It's good to have the pan as back-up, whether you wrap or not. I've also done them in the pan, but then it is more like simmering in a crock pot -- which isn't necessarily bad, but not what most people are going for.
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On another note, I have never yet had a bone to wiggle freely. I don't know if it's the quality of meat that I use or what, but I have had perfectly done meat and the bone was still holding fast.
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Hmmm...maybe not like a " hot knife thru butta" but how about a bone that is clean?
If the bone is still holding tight, than I suspect that the pork (for Pulled pork) could be cooked longer...jus my .02
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What Keale said, the bone *should come out freely. If not freely, it should definitely come out clean.

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i have done it both ways, its easyer to just wrap with foil, and i hae never cooked one past 205, I normaly just do a bone test and dont worry about the actual temp

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That's how it always starts. Then before you know it, you're wrapping your head so the black choppers can't follow you.
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I think you guys might be on to something by telling me to test my thermometer. I'll test the thermo tonight.
I tested my thermometer and it was measuring 210 instead of 211.7, but that's close enough for me. So it wasn't lying to me when I took my butts out at 215 and the bone still held fast and the meat was not mush. Weird... I know, but there it is.

I'll be doing the butts tonight and I'll report back on my results.
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