My kids cooking class. Help needed.

[silverfinger]

My son is in a cooking class at school and the teacher asked me if I would do one of the classes. She was going to cook a pork shoulder with Bbq sauce in the crock pot for this Monday's session. I told her I was doing a cook this Saturday and I would throw it on for her and bring it in and teach the kids how to make Guerrys slaw.

Here's the deal. She wants the kids to be able to pull the pork so I'm wondering what would be the best way too reheat and have a whole butt ready to pull (all warmed up) when I walk in the door. I will have 40min. I plan on showing pictures of how it was smoked at home, introduce them to the wonderful art of smoking and make slaw.

Again, I'm smoking that butt right now.

Thanks

 

[landarc]

Assuming they have a kitchen, toss it into an oven at 375F for 40 minutes. Are you coming from home? If so, reheat it at 300F to 180F IT, then wrap, cooler and travel

 

[SmittyJonz]

I'd smoke it till done, vent it for 20 minutes then wrap it or pan it and flash cool it in freezer then keep it in fridge. I'd warm it in oven whole at 250*-300* in Pan Monday morning till it hit 165-170* (maybe 1.5-2 hrs ?) then put in cooler and haul to school.

 

[silverfinger]

Assuming they have a kitchen, toss it into an oven at 375F for 40 minutes. Are you coming from home? If so, reheat it at 300F to 180F IT, then wrap, cooler and travel

Yeah, they have a kitchen but I'm just 5min from school so I thought I would heat it and bring in ready to go. Don't need to be there till 2:00.

I'd smoke it till done, vent it for 20 minutes then wrap it or pan it and flash cool it in freezer then keep it in fridge. I'd warm it in oven whole at 250*-300* in Pan Monday morning till it hit 165-170* (maybe 1.5-2 hrs ?) then put in cooler and haul to school.

My biggest worry is drying it out in the oven. I'm thinking of saving some of the juices to pour into the pork after its pulled.

How long should it take to reheat guys? It's 7lbs
Edit: I see you already answered that question :doh:

 

[Learning to BBQ]

Good on ya for introducing some young uns to BBQ! Good luck!

 

[tish]

You're a good soul for taking the time and sharing your knowledge with the kids, Ray. You rock! :rockon:

 

[dwfisk]

My biggest worry is drying it out in the oven. I'm thinking of saving some of the juices to pour into the pork after

Saving juices is a good idea, you can always suppliment with apple juice. My "go to" for reheating a pork butt is on a rack with some apple juice, tightly covered with film and foil. Once you get it warm/hot you can carry it in a small cooler or pan wrapped with towels, either is plenty for a 5-10 minute drive to school.

 

[SmittyJonz]

Make a finishing sauce


http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91494

 

[silverfinger]

Thanks for your help guys!

I ended up pulling the pork shoulder and refrigerating it. Pulled it out today and reheated it for a couple hours 275 to 300. I put it on a V shaped rack, dropped it in a foil tray, put diluted soy sauce in the bottom of the tray and loosely covered the whole thing with tin foil.

I saved some of the juices from the cook on Saturday and I added that to it when we pulled it. It came out great!

The kids really enjoyed it! We made slaw, pulled the pork and made sammiches.
We talked about smokers, uds, weber, woods, charcoal, rubs, sauces. I had much more to share but ran out of time.

The kids were eating and taking sammies to all the teachers. Don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Took me 30min just to get out of the parking lot.

 

[DUBBAGA]

That's awesome Ray, great job!

 

[bluetang]

That is smokin! Way to roll there Ray.

 

[mattmountz94]

Awesome!

 

[Stingerhook]

Ray, sounds like you had a hit on your hands.

 

[Q Junkie]

Sounds like it was a good time. The more kids that learn the craft the better off us old timers will be in our twilight.

 

[IamMadMan]

It great to teach the youth the art of BBQ...

Sounds like it was a great time for all..

 

[93vpmod]

Way to go Ray!

 

[FLHX]

Nice work!

 

[cueball21]

Great job!

How old were the kids?