Costco Pork Butts

[WillTravelForFood]

Costco newsletter says their In Store specials this week include boneless pork shoulder butt: $5 off per package, no purchase limit.

[bbqLuv]

Sounds good. I like Costco meat. Got some beef short ribs.

[tamidw]

Happen to see these when I went to Costco yesterday and grabbed one. Would love to have more freezer space to get a couple more.

[HawkerXP]

WoW

[jfmorris]

Well, what does $5 off do to the price? Unlike Sam's Club, Costco doesn't let me do online shopping and check the meat prices without going up to the store in person, so I have no idea what they are charging per pound these days. Sam's was around $1.79 a pound last time I looked at butts there.

[Troutman]

I was at Costco over the weekend and I think Swift Premium butts were about $1.79/pound as well. It varies from $1.50-1.99/pound depending on the availability I suppose. Typically they are advertised at 17# so the asking price would be $30.43 give or take. If it's $5 off that knocks $0.30/pound off the price which is really a good deal. Yea you can look around and still see some sales like at Kroger for $0.99/pound but some of the commodity pork at that price point isn't what I want to buy. Let's face it, pork is still a great value even at higher price points than beef, may as well try to source better product imho. Porter Road has Berkshire/Duroc cross for something like $5/pound on the extreme end. Still better than paying +$20/pound for prime beef !!!

[jfmorris]

Good points.

I did a couple of butts from Porter Road in the past, but to be honest, once they got the pulled pork treatment, not 100% convinced they were different enough to where I could justify spending $56 or whatever per butt too often.

I'll try to slide up Costco way while the sale is on and pick up a couple. To be honest, I've never ever done a boneless butt. Just bone-in.

[Troutman]

Yea I agree on Porter Road and Compart for that matter. If your nuking the hell out of them for pulled pork it really comes down to the fat content and whatnot. Paying twice the price is a bit hard to swallow. The Costco deal is the way to go.

[Spinaker]

LFG!

[gatorjj]

Bought the butts a couple days ago and smoked them up yesterday. Yummmm...

Oh yeah the question was the price...I believe they were $1.99/lb before the $5 off, and came in just under $20 for the package.