been wanting to do an experiment with this new unit that I got a few weeks back called the joule. been playing with it with hamburgers and steaks. But wanted to see how it stacked up against my regular smoked pulled pork.
I sliced a 10 lb boneless pork shoulder in half right thru the money muscle and salted both 5 lb pieces for 24 hours. I then rubbed mmd onto the one I was gonna sv. I bagged it up and vacuum sealed it and into the pot it went at 330 am on wed. the joule was set at 167 and I keep it in the water for 20 hours. After the 20 hours I pulled the sv out and shocked it in an ice bath
I got up on the 4th and then started my wsm and prepped the other hunk of pork like I usually do. I also rubbed it with mmd. I then unbaged the sv butt, patted it dry a little and added more rub to it. I put them both on the smoker at around 415 am on the 4th. my fireboard monitored the cook. My avg pit temp was 280 with the water pan.
at 7 am the sv butt was done. so I removed it shredded it and re vacuum sealed it in a bag and shocked it again. I was looking to firm up the bark. well a couple of things I noticed. it seemed to have a lot of grease still but was really tender. I weighed it and it lost 2 lbs. during the cook. hmmmm okay that seems about righit.
I didn't want to be the only one to do a side by side comparison so since I was heading over to my realitives later in the day, then they would be the victims.
the other pork butt finished at 11 am so I did what I usually do, I foiled and rested for 2 hours before shredding, then pulled, vacuumed packed and shocked also. I did have more bark being I never wrap in the cooker and powered thru the stall with it.
When I got to my relatives, I fired up the sv and put both bags in a pot to reheat up to 150 till the other proteins were done. my relatives didn't know which one was which so it was a good comparison.
of the 3 relatives, I was surprised to learn a few things. they all liked the sv over the traditional which really surprised me. on comment that they made was that it had more "smoke" flavor than the one that was smoking for 6 1/2 hours. The other thing that caught my attention was the smoke ring in the sv as I was pulling it. I read a lot of remarks where a smoke ring was not present and to use Prague powder to fool people. Ill pass on that. I forgot to mention that the full smoked butt weighed after at 3.4 lbs, so it lost less moisture than the sv one, but seemed a little dryer
Overall, it seems that this sv joule will work pretty well for the 300 lbs of pork that I plan on cooking at the end of the month. If anything, I can use it to reheat the vacuum bags as needed. lets go thru some pics
I sliced a 10 lb boneless pork shoulder in half right thru the money muscle and salted both 5 lb pieces for 24 hours. I then rubbed mmd onto the one I was gonna sv. I bagged it up and vacuum sealed it and into the pot it went at 330 am on wed. the joule was set at 167 and I keep it in the water for 20 hours. After the 20 hours I pulled the sv out and shocked it in an ice bath
I got up on the 4th and then started my wsm and prepped the other hunk of pork like I usually do. I also rubbed it with mmd. I then unbaged the sv butt, patted it dry a little and added more rub to it. I put them both on the smoker at around 415 am on the 4th. my fireboard monitored the cook. My avg pit temp was 280 with the water pan.
at 7 am the sv butt was done. so I removed it shredded it and re vacuum sealed it in a bag and shocked it again. I was looking to firm up the bark. well a couple of things I noticed. it seemed to have a lot of grease still but was really tender. I weighed it and it lost 2 lbs. during the cook. hmmmm okay that seems about righit.
I didn't want to be the only one to do a side by side comparison so since I was heading over to my realitives later in the day, then they would be the victims.
the other pork butt finished at 11 am so I did what I usually do, I foiled and rested for 2 hours before shredding, then pulled, vacuumed packed and shocked also. I did have more bark being I never wrap in the cooker and powered thru the stall with it.
When I got to my relatives, I fired up the sv and put both bags in a pot to reheat up to 150 till the other proteins were done. my relatives didn't know which one was which so it was a good comparison.
of the 3 relatives, I was surprised to learn a few things. they all liked the sv over the traditional which really surprised me. on comment that they made was that it had more "smoke" flavor than the one that was smoking for 6 1/2 hours. The other thing that caught my attention was the smoke ring in the sv as I was pulling it. I read a lot of remarks where a smoke ring was not present and to use Prague powder to fool people. Ill pass on that. I forgot to mention that the full smoked butt weighed after at 3.4 lbs, so it lost less moisture than the sv one, but seemed a little dryer
Overall, it seems that this sv joule will work pretty well for the 300 lbs of pork that I plan on cooking at the end of the month. If anything, I can use it to reheat the vacuum bags as needed. lets go thru some pics
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