When do you wrap Boston Butt?

[Sweaty Paul]

I tend to cook everything at 250 now and have gone away from 225. If I'm going to wrap a butt I wrap it at about 165ish and when it hits the stall and the bark is the color for which I'm looking. If I wrap, and if I need the butt cooked faster, then after I wrap the butt I increase the heat to 300. This speeds the cook considerably and allows a good amount of time for a rest too in my false cambro (a cooler in which I will put the butt wrapped in foil and then wrap the butt in old beach towels and then putt the whole thing in the cooler to let the meat rest).

That said, I have often just cooked the butts nekkid at 250 and let them finish. Bark is more developed. It often depends on my mood and what else I have going.

[briano52]

I too have found that I can smoke pork butt at anywhere from 225 to 280 (I haven't tried a higher temp, it might work too) and not have any issues with drying out or overdone. I wrap in paper and finish in the oven after the stall starts. The wrap will soften the bark a little bit but not too much to be a problem in my experience.

[Huskee]

I wrap after the stall, at roughly 180 internal temp. The only thing I wrap early in the stall is beef chuck for pulled beef.

[Santamarina]

Butt never gets wrapped around here. I want it coming of the pit looking like a meteorite. Lots of delicious bark.

This def makes fo a long cook. My stickburner liked to run at 250° and a butt would typically go 14 hours. And it was always worth the extra time.

[TripleB]

No wrapping needed.

Season butt as you wish, brown in a skillet, place butt in crock pot and add 1 cup (1 part chicken broth, 1 part apple juice + a little liquid smoke), turn dial to low and cook for 8-10 hours. Shred and add your favorite BBQ sauce.

So GOOD.

Enjoy

[radiodome21]

I haven’t done an overnight cook in a while. I usually start my pork butts first thing in the morning at 225 and will gradually bring it up. I wrap around 165° and have done foil boats and full wraps because it’s usually for dinner that same day. I’m going to do one this weekend actually and might toss it on a cooker before I go to bed and not wrap at all. Depends on the weather.

[Skinsfan1311]

I don't wrap anything but brisket, chuckies & 3-2-1 ribs...

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

Never? Except maybe when it's time to rest and hold for a few hours.

[surfdog]

Do what now?
Yeah, I’m in the “don’t wrap camp.”
When I started this journey many eons ago…I didn't even know that wrapping was a thing. And if it ain’t broke…