Pork Belly Burnt Ends in BGE

[johnec00]

Made these pork belly burnt ends yesterday using info from several web sites, but mostly this one

Made enough for 3 of us with a couple of ends to spare. Had for supper with bacon-spinach salad and garlic bread

Took maybe half an hour plus 3 or 3.5 hours cooking on the BGE

INGREDIENTS:

• Approximately 2.5 pounds Wild Fork Skinless Berkshire Pork Belly Strips
• 1/4C Rub (below)
• 2T mustard BBQ sauce - Meathead's Carolina Gold
• 1/4C BBQ Sauce (below)
• 4T Butter
• 2T honey

RUB:

• 1/4C light brown sugar
• 2T coarse Kosher salt
• 1T ground black pepper
• 1T paprika
• 1t chili powder
• 1/2t garlic powder
• 1/2t onion powder

BBQ Sauce:

• 1C ketchup
• 2T apple cider vinegar
• 3T light brown sugar
• 3T molasses
• 1/2T granulated garlic
• 1/2T onion powder
• 1/2t celery seed
• 1/2t ground allspice
• 1/2t chipotle powder

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Cut belly strips into about 1" cubes
• Prepare BGE for indirect with 3 apple chunks under FOGO lump
• Apply a light coat of the mustard sauce then liberal amount of rub to belly cubes, stir together in bowl
• Rest 20 minutes, stir and rest 10 minutes more
• Arrange belly cubes on a grate,
• When BGE is up to 260º with clean smoke, place the grate and belly on BGE
• Maintain 260-275º until belly internal reaches190º (took a little over 2 hours)
• Remove to foil pan and cover with BBQ sauce, butter and honey
• Cover with foil and place back in BGE or in oven at 225º for about an hour
• Remove foil and broil in oven about 15 minutes to harden glaze

Belly strips cubed:


Rubbed and mixed:


On BGE:


Smoked to IT 190º


In pan with BBQ sauce, honey and butter:


After foil cover removed, forgot picture after final stir and glaze

[58limited]

That looks really good!

[Henrik]

Awesome! And bonus points for serving a salad with bacon (= pork belly) in it as a side 👌

[Purc]

Looks great. I need to make these as well. I have tried them at several BBQ places and they didn't impress me because they were dry and somewhat chewy. Yours again look great.

[Mschloemer]

Looks awesome! Question - did the fat render out into the fire and cause flare-ups?

[johnec00]

No, there was a foil pan under the meat.