Got the Lang heating up for a couple of butts. I always wrap them when they hit the stall 160-170 but for the first time I'm not going to. I will post pics though out the cook.
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Just took them out of the fridge heading to the chamber. The rub was applied last night.
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In the chamber they goComment
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Let the countdown beginComment
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Good looking butts. Everything stalls, but dang my butts stall at 160 for soooo long! Glad you got an early start, might be done in time for dinner...maybe.Comment
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Looking good so far!Comment
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DWC I'm guessing you're cooking in your normal 225F to 250F range. Since you're not going to wrap and you want to eat today try this... when the butts stall at somewhere around 160F take your pit temp up to 275F to 300F. Once the butts are out of the stall lower the temp back down to 225F to 250F. They'll get done much faster and you won't sacrifice much at all in the way of taste and tenderness.Comment
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Pit Boss... I assume you are speaking from experience of powering through the stall with heat. I can't wait to try that. I'm a low and slow guy and hate using the Texas crutch. Pork butts are hard to screw up on really so my next butt is going to see some heat. Thanks for that tidbit. -
Yep Breadhead that was experience talking. I agree pork but is easy to make Good, and hard to mess up, but making it great takes skill. Try cooking one at 225F for 17 hours until it hits 203F. Then you'll realize what you've been missing
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Pit Boss... I posted on here a couple years about my pork butt low and slow cook I did in my Big Green Egg without peeking even once. That cook was 2 8 pound butts. I put them in the egg with proper spacing at 10pm and closed the lid. I stabilized the temp and went to bed. In the morning all was good and my maverick told me where the meet was and I went out with friends for breakfast. The maverick told me my meat was at 203 at 4:00pm. I put it in the cambro for 2 hours and then served it to friends and family at 6:00pm. I didn't open the lid at all. I had had my egg for a while and I just wanted to see if I could pull that cook off. All went well.
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Awesome. I bet you're in your glory right now! I wish I had planned ahead properly and had one of my butts thawed, it sounds like fun today.Comment
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Cool, will be interesting to see how it turns out. Good to see that Lang in action!Comment
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It's funny, we've had a streak of warm sunny weather (40s the last week or so and yesterday 51 and bright warm sunshine) so all of our snow is melting and it smells like spring outside. I have a big rib & and chicken cook this Saturday having some friends over whom we haven't visited with in a while. And guess what? Saturday is the first forecast for rain since November. Go figure.... My Yoder hates rain. Especially cold rain.
On the birhgt side, I found out the supermarket closest to me, about 5 mi away, has St Louis trimmed ribs on sale for $2.99. So I'll save probably $15 on my supply and spend nothing in gas AND I don't have to do the trimming.
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Man oh man, can't wait! I keep watching for them and robins. And then once the ice on the pond is melted we get the peeper frogs peeping day & night for a month or more.Originally posted by DWCowles View Post
This is turning out to be a very nice March so far. I bet it will go "out like a lion" though.Comment
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Six hours into the cook and they're in the stall. IT is 172 F. Got the taters on for baking.Comment
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