Claws?

[J-Melt]

I am smoking 7 pork butts tonight for our friend’s wedding tomorrow. I have always pulled with forks. Do y’all love or hate claws for pulling pork?

[CaptainMike]

Dislike claws, love rakes. Claws make my achy old hands achier.

[fuzzydaddy]

I use cotton gloves with nitrile gloves over them and do by hand, but I'm only doing 1 or 2. If I were doing more I *might* use something else (would have to buy claws).

[johnec00]

+++ got a box of XXL nitrile gloves, use them over regular cotton garden gloves. Somebody gave us some claws some time ago, finally got tired of them cluttering the junk drawer and threw them away.

[Skip]

Same. Double gloved hands. With that many I might ask for help and use the KAMixer once the big fat chunks are removed.

[BKYDBBQ]

I am going to pile on with the white gloves and nitrile gloves. I have done as many as 8 butts from one cook this way...

[Attjack]

That's a lot of pork to pull. You should try a KitchenAid mixer with the dough hook.

[Steve R.]

+1. I think some people are missing the point that he has a whole bunch of meat to process at once. I did 7 at one time once, same scenario, and I regretted doing it all by hand. Plus, it took a lot more time than I had intended.

[Jfrosty27]

I don’t like claws at all. Very awkward in my hands and they make my old hands and wrists ache. I just glove up amd fig in.

[CRO]

I put the butt on pink butcher paper and pull by hand with insulated foodsafe gloves.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/g/8928/crewsafe-red-hot-16-black-insulated-neoprene-gloves-bp1032

[RonB]

Do you have a mixer with a dough hook? My KA will pull a butt in short order with the dough hook. Just pull it into chunks and add to the mixer - on low speed.

[J-Melt]

I do, but I’m pulling it all at church where we don’t have one 🤦♂️

[Steve R.]

I'd recruit a couple of helpers if possible, J-Melt. And I have no preference between claws and gloves, but I can work a lot faster with gloves.

[Jerod Broussard]

I'd have someone else starting with claws while I fine tune the final product with white cotton gloves covered with nitrile.

[fzxdoc]

I like this idea. Faster and more efficient. As the PP expert, J-Melt would know what should be kept/discarded in the final product.

K.

[texastweeter]

Cotton glove liners with nitril gloves over them

[STEbbq]

Alternatively, as I just used yesterday, no cut gloves with vinyl gloves on top!

[J-Melt]

I ended up doing my old fork method because I forgot to bring the cotton gloves my wife cleaned for me last night🤦♂️. It worked fine and I was able to recruit a helper to do 3 of them!

I plan on buying a set of gloves that has cotton and nitrile.

[Donw]

I bought a whole pack 5 years ago for around $12. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and just pull nitrile gloves over them when I need to. My wife likes just using the plain gloves for handling hot things in the kitchen too.

[Bogy]

I have 3 grandchildren who are fine with my normal pulling the pork apart with my hands in fairly big chunks. The other two like theirs more finely pulled because that's the way their dad does it. KitchenAid time. When I do a bunch of butts for church or when my son wants to do something special for his employees I pull it by hand with whichever insulated gloves I grabbed. Everything named above is something I have used and have on hand.

I have several variations on claws, and haven't used any of them in a couple of years.

[tstalafuse]

I personally like this for pulled pork.. No ache tired burned hands..

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078S5DQZX?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

[HawkerXP]

2 large forks work for me.