Cooking pork butt for pot luck at work

[ScottP]

We are having a potluck at work next friday and I want to cook a pork butt. The problem is I will not have access to anything to reheat the meat before serving so I am going to need to keep it hot from the time it comes off the cooker until pulling and serving. Here is what I am thinking:

I work from 7am - 3pm, I will get everything ready before so when I get home thrusday afternoon I can get the cooker fired and hopefully get the meat on by 4:30. I am only going to cook one butt this time, I usually do 2 for bigger gatherings. Will one take about the same amount of time as 2?

I am hoping to have it done in time to pack up and leave for work around 6:30. Serving time will be around 11. To keep the meat warm until then I am thinking about doing as described in the cooking topics article and foiling the meat, wrapping in towels, and putting it all in a pre warmed cooler with a couple of these
http://www.drugstore.com/produ...d=226773&catid=12895
thrown in. I plan on pulling the meat just before serving.

Does anyone have any experience holding meat for this amount of time that might be able to chime im?

 

[Clark Deutscher]

How big are the butts? One should take basically the same amount of time as two. If you are getting stuck at the end and are crunched for time, just boos the heat a little, or if you are really crunched foil them and up your heat around 350, that would finish them quickly for you.

For the holding period, 4 hours is no problem, esecially in a cooler, they will be nice and warm when you pull them on site. I wouldn't worry about adding those things from the drug store in. I would just wrap the butt in foil and wrap with towels then toss in the cooler.

Should be perfect!

Clark

 

[Phil Perrin]

Scott,you might use those things to preheat the cooler,but so long as the cooler stays shut,the meat will keep itself warm for 4 hours foiled and toweled. Good luck at the lunch.

 

[Rich Parker]

I have brought PP in to work a few times now and always cook it the weekend before and reheat it in a crock pot with a little finishing sauce.

I like my sleep too much to tend to a cooker on a work night.