Food Smokers and Smoking Tips/Tricks/Techniques

I never trim the fat from mine.. but I do score it in a diamond pattern.

I pull the pork with my hands and "squish" some of the fat into the pulled meat to keep it from drying out later.

 

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I don’t do a lot of trimming but just take some of the big fat pieces away. I’ve never had it dry out on me yet. And I don’t care for the fatty pieces in pulled pork very much in the end product

 

Put her on about midnight. Smoker at 220* it’s not 8:14 and she’s sittin at 170*. Perfect timing to wake up. Time to wrap in foil till 190

 

I know I know. Pulled pork is the only meat I don’t really like the fat on. Everything else I love it.

 

I usually pull a lot of the fat before I pull it. That way I get as much as possible to render into it. I don’t like eating the fat chunks in it either.

 

First fatty ever. I've been missing out. Soooo simple and using a pellet smoker makes it just that much easier then all my other smokers.

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By the encouragement from another poster on another forum I also started a bottle of pepper sauce this morning

4 Carolina Reapers
8 or 10 Poinsettia peppers
50/50 white/ACV
6 ounce woozy bottle

Going to give it about a week to dwell then going to use for dressing up some ham green beans and potato's.

 

Finally pulled the pork butt. 14 hours later for a 6.3 pound butt. Going for an hour rest now then Time to feast.

 

My Sam's Club had Tomahawk Ribeyes on sale.

 

More bark than I like due to not wrapping this time. Still damn good

 

Non traditional cook, but what the f***. I thought I’d do manicotti on the popper today.

 

Well, while I’m here might as well load it up. My weeks worth of Spam and a load of chicken tender loins.


Every thing on and sucking up hickory smoke.

Manicotti finished, and totally awesome!!!

 

What do you mean more bark than you like? The bark is the best part!

 

Meh. I like my pulled pork all soft. Just not a big fan of the bark and toughness.

 

Is this because of that time you caught your smoker on fire?