I followed the Perfect Pulled Pork recipe, and went with cherry wood this time. Normally I do hickory, but I am impressed with the taste the cherry gave. I used my new Masterbuilt 40" 1800 watt Electric Smoker, and monitored the temp with a Maverick ET-732. The total cook took about 18 hours.
The smoker created incredible smoke I thought, and after 3 hours of smoking, I quit adding chips and let it cook the rest of the way. I really like the new smoker and think it is set up real well. My main complaint is the temperature fluctuated by about 25 degrees so I set the smoker on 250 and from my ET-732, the internal temperature would go up to 240 and back down to 215.
The butt came out great and had a smokey sweet taste to it. I could eat it by itself, but I did make some Eastern NC BBQ Sauce i slapped together with cider vinegar, brown sugar, and red pepper flake and a few other ingredients. I also made up some SC Mustard Sauce and KC Original BBQ sauce from the website. We like variety lol.
All in all some great BBQ!
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