Food safety temperatures and smoking meat (questions and rambling)

[FireMan]

Now aside from lookin outstanding, how did go with the taste test? 👍

[jfmorris]

Well, what was missing was SALT. This was a "natural" butt and not brined/injected like some you buy. Because it was frozen and not thawed fully, I never dry brined it overnight like I usually do. I just salted the surface with kosher salt, then 5 minutes later came back and applied MMD, and took it out to the grill. I ended up sprinkling more kosher salt over the pulled pork and mixing it in to taste. Once I did that all standing around me as I pulled pork agreed that it tasted great!