Pork Butt-Now I'm Confused

[6th Borough BBQ]

2nd the twine part....it is a small detail that is very important.

[Willy]

As y'all knew, the packages indeed had two butts each, so, four butts totaling 30-ish pounds after trimming. Got'em dry brined Tuesday night for a Friday cook (one day ahead of the block party cuz I'm not getting up to start a cook at 1 AM). Vacuum seal after cooking/cooling and then up to temp via sous vide before going into CrockPots. Looks like about 60 adults and a dozen kids and I think with the pork, four chickens, hot dogs for the kids (gonna be a terrorist and just boil 'em to save time and last minute cooking) a couple pounds of tocino, and a batch of slaw, as well as potluck dishes from each guest, no one should go hungry.

I do wish the butts were bone-in, both to eliminate the need to tie and to provide the satisfaction of pulling the clean bone right out of the cooked butt. C'est la vie.

[Baltassar]

I've did this exact thing first time I bought pork butt at Costco. Costco is almost incapable of selling one (1) of anything smaller than a table saw. Why sell one large jar/chunk/box of X when you shrink-wrap two of them together!

[RonB]

And you will have more surface area for bark.

[ecowper]

texastweeter my understanding is that it is either Swift or Smithfield

[HawkerXP]

me three

[DWCowles]

What they said

[kmhfive]

Yep… you have both the right kind of meat and the right mass/weight but you have four individual pieces instead of two — hey, more bark!!😃

[alans38]

Kirkland

[texastweeter]

what brand are they?

[ecowper]

I like the Costco butts .... they are indeed 2 to a pack, thus why the typical cryovac weight is around 15 lbs ..... you will have four boneless pork butts, each weighing 7-8 lbs. you will want some butcher’s twine to tie them with. Once the bone is removed, they have a very odd shape and parts of the butt kinda flop around. The Costco butts are good quality meat and pretty darn predictable from a cooking perspective.

[texastweeter]

pork but is butt... bone in bone out, it will all be GREAT

[scottranda]

Yeah, mine are 2x per package.

[Willy]

So I'm guessing that when I open the packages, there will be two pieces. I will confirm or deny by Thursday AM. Regardless, I did buy the proper amount of pork, (30 pounds) and, if it is two pieces, my world will not have suddenly been turned upside down. ;«)

[Spinaker]

Mine too!