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Ok I tried a couple of recipes using slow cookers, and always end up with a soggy and tasteless meat. What is a good pulled pork recipe?
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It may not be the recipe your lacking, but your choice of cooker,
You don't have a weber grill?
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Just a side note: always remember that those are "pulled" pork sandwiches - not cubed.
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Your slow cooker is a camp chef smoker? I first took your original post that you’re using a slow cooker like a crock pot or something on the counter.
For pork shoulders I smear with cheap yellow mustard, then sprinkle with whatever rub I happen to have on hand, usually Head Country (but honestly about any commercial or concocted mix works just as well). 225 degrees until the meat falls apart (around 200 degrees internal)
Never what I would call soggy. Cooking on everything from a ugly drum smoker to a stick burning offset to a propane fired vertical with wood chunks for smoke to a PitBoss vertical pellet smoker. Pellet smoker doesn’t make it as smoky. But still good.
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You gotta have smoke. I use my pellet grill and it turns out great.
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I use a rub recipe that I got from Alton Brown years ago. It’s similar to this one: https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/alton-brown/barbecue-st-louis-pork-ribs-2047251Put the rub on the day before and refrigerate overnight. I like to cut the butt up into smaller portions for more bark. I put them in my smoker or on a Weber kettle grill with the coals off to one side. I add wood chips for smoke. After getting a good bark (~4 hours) I move it to a slow cooker or instant pot. I slow cook it until it pulls apart with forks (~2 hours). I’ve tried just the smoker but it drys it out too much but is still good. When I’m somewhere without a grill or smoker I’ve broiled the meat in an oven for somewhat of a bark but less smoke flavor or a gas grill. I actually smoked one today and we had it for dinner. It was delicious.
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Put on a rub, smoke at 225 for 10 hours or so until the meat is 190F. You should have a nice bark by then, and the fat should be rendered out. If I transfer it to a crock pot to take to a party, I usually add some Coke to keep it from drying out.
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cooking pork in a slow cooker is not a good idea. you need a smoker or at the very least a wood chip tray for your gas grill, but thats a pain. i recommend the weber smokey mountain. my buddy has one of these and it works really well too: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pit-Boss...w-Flame-Broiler-and-Meat-Probe/160692525
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I start by putting rub on my pork butts the morning I am going to cook. I get my smoker up to temp (225-250) range and I run water pans in my smoker. I feel them with a 50/50 fix of Apple juice and water. I put the meat on and smoke it for about 4 hours, then I wrap it in aluminum foil. I continue cooking til the meat hits 195 internal temp. I take it and let it rest in a cooler (hot box) for at least 1 hour, longer is better. I cooked 32 pork butts last year for about 400 people and cooked again this year for about 350. All the meat came out nice and moist and tender.
I am not smart enough to attach pictures but have some of the cooking. Also did 72 racks of ribs for the same cook
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The smoke at 225 until 200-205 internal temp is a great method, as many stated above.
If in a hurry, can do "turbo butt" at 325 - 350. I've done several this way and they turn out great. Cut the time down to 6-7 hrs, usually.
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I didn't realize camp chef made a smoker.
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It is all about the smoke and rub. I use Meat Church Honey Hog for the rub. For the wood, I use either Apple or Cherry. A smoker is best and smoke at 225-250 for the first two hours. After that point is it just about maintaining temperature. I generally wrap in foil at the point and if you want to "cheat" use the oven until it is finished. In the oven, I use a roasting pan with a rack and water in the bottom. I use this one from Amazon. The rack keeps the meat out of the rendered fat drippings and the water in the bottom keeps everything moist. Cover the whole pan TIGHT with foil. I use 2 temp probes and it is done when both are over 200-205 degrees. If it is done early, wrap just the roast in foil and place it in a cooler with old towels above and below it. It will last for hours and will be hot when you remove it.
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Look up Dr Pepper pulled pork in adobo sauce. It won’t be bland.
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I do pulled pork in a crack pot a lot. It works fine with a few caveats.
1) Find a rub you like - use generously 2) I put it on my gas grill with a few cans of mesquite chips smoking furiously. 3) Put a scorch on all sides 4) Place on sliced onions in the crack pot 5) Place onion chunks around it. 6) cook til it is falling apart 7) take out of the crack pot and set aside 8) pour the juice into a bowl 9) Put pork back into the crack pot and fork apart 10) add back juices to the consistency that you like 11) eat!
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Your slow cooker is a camp chef smoker? I first took your original post that you’re using a slow cooker like a crock pot or something on the counter.
For pork shoulders I smear with cheap yellow mustard, then sprinkle with whatever rub I happen to have on hand, usually Head Country (but honestly about any commercial or concocted mix works just as well). 225 degrees until the meat falls apart (around 200 degrees internal)
Never what I would call soggy. Cooking on everything from a ugly drum smoker to a stick burning offset to a propane fired vertical with wood chunks for smoke to a PitBoss vertical pellet smoker. Pellet smoker doesn’t make it as smoky. But still good. This
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Thanks guys. Ill give it a try on the camp chef
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I can't stand stringy pulled pork. It's F'n nasty.
So, I used to let it cool, and slice it.
But, if you cook to around 202, the fibers break down. Then you get nice soft meat that doesn't wind around your molars and try to choke you.
Screw the cut meat haters. Throw them in with the bean haters.
Good food is good food. Changes in presentation mean little.
The stringy meat thing is tangible.
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Cover a Boston Butt with Tony Chacheres and pepper.
Leave it on the smoker for at least 12 hours.
Lots and lots of smoke the first three hours @ 225. Bring it to 275 and leave until it’s done. Fork test tells you when it’s done. Not temp. Not time.
Serve on a bun with BBQ sauce and a spoonful of coleslaw on top.
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Thanks guys. Look forward to making some good pulled pork!
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