What I didn't like about my first pulled pork!

[Aceman]

It took 11hrs to get to 200*, 5 minutes to pull, a minute to toss in some sauce and 2 minutes to get to room temperature.

That sucked!

The flavor was great, it was fun to make and the family loved it! But darn, does it cool down QUICK!

 

[JohnnyB]

Did you let it sit and rest for long?

 

[Free Mr. Tony]

Keep your sauce in a small crockpot, or just under a simmer before tossing or topping your pork with it. It helps out alot if you didn't already do it that way.

 

[Aceman]

Did you let it sit and rest for long?

No. It was 7pm and our parents are too impatient.

 

[Big George's BBQ]

Once pulled it can cool quickly Warm up the sauce and let people add their own sauce too their food Not pulled it stays hot for hours

 

[LongIslandEd]

Yeah, getting the right timing down is tough. If I have guests over I pull it and put it in an aluminum chafing dish covered to keep it hot. Otherwise, heating the sauce is the way to go.

 

[Richard1233]

Smoke it at higher heat too if u want to cut down the cook time. Pork butts can take the high temps, i can smoke 10 lb butts in about 4 -5 hours and then I let it rest in a cooler wrapped in foil with a little apple juice in the foil for about 2-3 hours. I cook at 300-325 and wrap when IT is about 150 and that's when I add apple juice to the foil. Let it keep cooking at 300-325 until IT is 205. After I pull it I re season with same rub I used.

 

[JohnnyB]

A little trick to use is to pull and make the sandwiches at the same time as serving. That way, the meat isn't sitting in a dish getting cold. Takes you away from other things for a few, but like mentioned above, the whole butt can sit on a counter whole for hours, and stay piping hot.

 

[tnfan47]

I only pull enough as the person comes by to make their plate. Everything else stays intact.

 

[blazinfire]

I was talking about this today! I made pulled pork a couple days ago. I pulled them, by the time I got the meat over to my buddies house, they had to warm it back up! Couldn't believe how fast pulled pork cooled down.

 

[BillN]

Hmmm... if it don't cool down you will burn your tongue devouring that delicious succulent pork. Can't blame the parents I'm sure the wonderful smells set the appetite into overdrive.

 

[THoey1963]

Nothing wrong with room temperature pulled pork. If you have one of those crock pots with a WARM setting, throw it in there after it is pulled...

 

[RolandJT]

Most of the PP I've eaten in my life was at a warm room temp--just the way things are. If you have gloves, you can pull it still really hot, mix some warmed up thin Carolina sauces in, and the cover the whole shebang with a lid and wrap the pot/tray/whatever in towels. It will stay hot for about an hour and whatever sauce you use will absorb. If you use a thin Carolina sauce this will even appear to most people as unsauced, but you will get the extra layer of flavor.

 

[brandenpro]

I warm anything it will come in contact with. Meats that go on cutting board get a warmed up cutting board. I run hot water over it.
Most meals I warm my plates up. Just enough so all the energy doesn't transfer out of the meat and into the plate.

 

[bbqgeekess]

Pulled Pork microwaved in its sauce tastes darn delicious to me I almost always have to microwave the pork after pulling for tacos, so the cheese will melt well. Talk about heaven: handful of steaming hot pulled pork butt thrown in a soft taco (which was heated on the gas burner), along with cheese & salsa verde. Mmmm.. Mmm.. Mmmmm.

 

[16Adams]

Throw a 1" layer into a cast iron skillet of pulled-chopped and minced pulled pork and crisp it around the edges- fantastic

 

[IamMadMan]

I always calculate a 3 hour hold/rest period into the cook. If I need more cooking time it becomes a time buffer. If it's done on time or if it takes a little longer for the bone to wiggle, we will always eat at the scheduled time. Once it stops cooking, I wrap and place in an insulated cooler, three hours later it is almost just as warm when it went in. The meat is done and it provides you time to make sure everything else in in order on the table, or unless you have to grill something like vegetable, corn, ect....