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Now that is where a motorized vent cap would work on a big enough pipe. Allow it to open and close depending on pit temp. Rather than have a fan below blowing air in, have a vent up top controlling air flow, and subsequently pit temp.
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Also, I forgot to mention. Picnics have loooooooong muscle strands. Next time I am slicing that thing in three, across the length of it, then pulling each section.
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Duuude, rub overload!!!! That thing is getting a real rub bath, eh? I bet you get a brak a mile thick with that slather!!
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Spin- I see a 733 in your pics, but not in your sig....hmmmmm
Is that 3/4" pipes...looks gooooooooooooooooood!!
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I've done quite a few picnics
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#1 I always remove the skin.
#2 I tie mine with four pieces of butcher twine to keep it all together, then hook the butt down as far as the hooks will permit. The Butt should rest with the side pointing up and the other side down towards the fire. So what would be the "top" and "bottom" of the butt, if it were on a table, are facing the side walls. Just like Mr. B did in the pics above.
#3 I havent noticed any real significant time difference between doing a bone in or bone out.
Usually I hang mine until the IT is about 190 or so, then I put the grate in and wrap that bad boy. If you wait until 180 F or north there of, you get an awesome bark formation on the butt. Its for this reason that I try to go as long as possible before wrapping. Some people are not comfortable waiting that long to wrap. So you can do it when ever you want.When I do eventually wrap I, put about a cup of Apple juice in the foil and put it back on the PBC till about 202 F.
Good Luck, I hope this helps
-John
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Next time I cook one, I think I'm going to cut it down the middle to the bones, remove them, stuff that sucker with onions and bell peppers, rub down, cook the crap out that sucka!
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If I was cooking a Latin American style pernil, I would cut the skin almost off but leave it hanging by a small piece near the hock. I would flap it back when I rubbed the marinade paste all over the shoulder then flip it back and just put salt and pepper on the skin. When the IT reached about 185-190, I would turn the oven temp up to about 400 to crisp the skin into cracklings, watching it like a hawk that it doesn't turn to soot, which it can in a hurry. Mmm, mmm good, as they used to say.
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Also that reminds me of something I wanted to try the next time I did one like a ham. I found a recipe some time ago for Momofuku Bo Ssam that looked different and awesome. Same general principle but at the end you heat an oven to 500, cover it in brown sugar, and bake for 10 minutes. Gives a very cool looking caramel crust.
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I have only done a couple, but only used one for pulled pork. I remove the skin, fat, and hang til 165 and slice, makes a great holiday type ham. Some people I know leave the fat and skin and say it's just like a built in hunk of pork belly. The pulled pork I did the same way as a shoulder.
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