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pahunter53
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Just got my first smoker and have been learning a lot from this site. Tons of knowledge on here and I'm enjoying my time.
I had a question regarding the length of time I actually have smoke hitting the pork butts I plan to smoke this weekend and I need a little more clarity.
For simplicity sake I'm going to assume its gonna take 10 to 12 hours to smoke my pork butts. How many hours should I actually be smoking the meat? Is it the first 3 to 4 hours with smoke hitting the meat and the remainder of time just cooking in the smoker, with no smoke, spraying the meat very hour?
Or should I have smoke going the entire time? or for 6 hours? I need some advice for my first time and expect to use that as a baseline for future smokes.
I think this also relates to creating a good bark....are those developed by smoking the entire time?
I'm using a vertical Master Forge gas smoker in case that helps. Thanks in advance.
I had a question regarding the length of time I actually have smoke hitting the pork butts I plan to smoke this weekend and I need a little more clarity.
For simplicity sake I'm going to assume its gonna take 10 to 12 hours to smoke my pork butts. How many hours should I actually be smoking the meat? Is it the first 3 to 4 hours with smoke hitting the meat and the remainder of time just cooking in the smoker, with no smoke, spraying the meat very hour?
Or should I have smoke going the entire time? or for 6 hours? I need some advice for my first time and expect to use that as a baseline for future smokes.
I think this also relates to creating a good bark....are those developed by smoking the entire time?
I'm using a vertical Master Forge gas smoker in case that helps. Thanks in advance.