Yet Another Butt Question !!

[Ahab]

I am smoking two 8+ lb Kurobuta butts tomorrow to serve over the weekend (vacuum sealed & then Sous Vide to reheat ). I have done 1 butt before several times but always to consume immediately. I am all about saving juices to reintroduce to the pulled meat to help with moisture. My question is, is it worth it/a good idea to put catch pans on the rack below the meat to catch juice as they are cooking ? Cooking on a WSM with briquets and a Bellows & Smoke upgrade.
Appreciate any input
Ahab

[Steve R.]

I've rarely had stuff in the drip pan that didn't eventually burn up. The good stuff tends to be captured in the foil if I wrap them.

[jfmorris]

Same here. I've never reincorporated from the drip pan. Just the foil I wrap in before resting and then pulling.

[Oak Smoke]

+3 I get mine from the foil. Ok after FireMan I’m +4.

[bbqLuv]

Foiled again, works for me.
+5

[FireMan]

Boy, we’re in a votin mood here in the Pit.
Well, while we’re at it, I cast a third vote fer the foil routine, yessir!

[HawkerXP]

I do use a drip pan under my butt................. on the Weber kettle with SnS that is.

I'll add some water to that pan at the start of the cook to keep it from burning off.

[FireMan]

You have a way with words, yessir!

[Purc]

+5 and I also put some doctored up bake beans under the butts to smoke and catch some of the drippings.

[JLR]

I pretty much always foil wrap pork but after I get a good bark so I can capture the juices. Glad to see it is so popular.
I recommend double wrapping it in case the foil tears. (Make sure you don't have any sharp corners on the butt when you wrap.) I also recommend that once you wrap, you place them in the oven at 225 or so to finish the cook. (At this point, you are only after heat to finish them off.) Make sure you put them in something deeper than a cookie tray just in case the juice leaks out.

[Ahab]

Thank You for the input Gentlemen, lit the fire at 4:30 AM and butts went on at 5:37. No drip pans just my water bowl. Time for coffee

[Texas Larry]

I have occasionally finished mine in a foil pan. Catches lots of juice, good bark above.