DerHusker
Babbling Farker
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- Apr 5, 2012
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Picked up a 13.5 lbs boneless pork shoulder from Costco for Mother's Day dinner. This was my 1st ever butt roast so I cut it in half so if I crashed and burned I'd still have another try at it. I did make a couple of rookie mistakes but all in all it came out great. So last night I slathered it up with mustard and then John's recipe pork rub. (Thanks John) Wrapped it up and into the frig.
Up at 6:00 AM to light the kamado (1st mistake, it should have been 4:00 AM)
Next mistake (If I can say this - Sorry Baby) is hugging and talking to my wife when she gets up. (Left the kamado to long and it got up to 250 when I was hoping for 225)
Butt goes on at 6:50.
Turn down the vents to try and get it to come down but it never does.
I'm thinking approx. 8 hours ought to be enough so I'm shooting for an approx. dinner time of 4:00. (Wrong again) And yet another mistake is putting a room temp floor tile in as a heat deflector. You guessed it, "TINK".
Everything is going along nicely until it hits 158 degrees. It didn't budge off of 158 for 90 minutes. (There goes my 8 hours!) Around 3:30 I'm realizing that I’m going to have to pull it out before 190 degrees.
Pulled at 3:50 (182 degrees) and into the foil.
Care to guess where the butt is?
An hour later I pull it out.
I proceed to pull it apart. (If I could’ve gone to 190 I’m sure this would’ve been easier) Here are the money shots.
Not the best I’ve ever had but not too far away from it. :clap:
Up at 6:00 AM to light the kamado (1st mistake, it should have been 4:00 AM)
Next mistake (If I can say this - Sorry Baby) is hugging and talking to my wife when she gets up. (Left the kamado to long and it got up to 250 when I was hoping for 225)
Butt goes on at 6:50.
Turn down the vents to try and get it to come down but it never does.
I'm thinking approx. 8 hours ought to be enough so I'm shooting for an approx. dinner time of 4:00. (Wrong again) And yet another mistake is putting a room temp floor tile in as a heat deflector. You guessed it, "TINK".
Everything is going along nicely until it hits 158 degrees. It didn't budge off of 158 for 90 minutes. (There goes my 8 hours!) Around 3:30 I'm realizing that I’m going to have to pull it out before 190 degrees.
Pulled at 3:50 (182 degrees) and into the foil.
Care to guess where the butt is?
An hour later I pull it out.
I proceed to pull it apart. (If I could’ve gone to 190 I’m sure this would’ve been easier) Here are the money shots.
Not the best I’ve ever had but not too far away from it. :clap: