Costco Butts

[Tom A.]

I buy the two pack boneless cryo butts from Costco. For those who use the Costco butts do you trim and remove the false cap?

I have trimmed and removed the false caps on both attempts, using the Mr Brown recipe. Trim or not trim?

Thanks,
T

 

[Dave from Denver]

never trim! That meat under the false cap is like divine ambrosia after it's smoked. You can discard the fat under that meat when you're pulling the pork.

 

[BradP "p-nut"]

I never trim butts and I cook fat cap up.
You can always leave the fat out when you pull it. I buy the Sam's 2pack butts which are prolly the same as the CostCo's.

 

[Mike F.]

I trim them a little bit. Just to remove the big chunks of fat, and I never trim all the way to red meat. I leave about a 1/4" of fat. I always tie them so they kinda look like a big roast. The butts that I have bought from Costco look like they were butchered with a chainsaw

but they were always tasty!

 

[George Curtis]

i'm still out on that. i had to get fully trimmed butt cuz nothing else was available. seemed to have more taste from the rub and smoke. so i'm still playing around to see.

 

[timothy]

No trim and fat cap down IMHO..

Tim

 

[Jim Lampe]

I'm with Tim on this one.
Did trim at one time, now it's the whole dang thing, and the fc on the grill.

 

[P. Kelly]

I have not trimmed any fat caps off the Butts I buy from Costco, imo the flavor was great and I prefer to not tamper with something that taste soooo good.

 

[Bill_W]

No trimming but I do tie it so it stays together better.

 

[Jeff Wildrick]

For tying, I bought some silicone "rubber" bands at a food supply store. They work great, and they are reusable time and time again. Much easier than twine!

I usually trim because there's enough fat and tissue in the meat that it doesn't need that extra layer. Never had a complaint. Nice and juicy.

 

[Tom R (doughboy)]

I just did a 15.5 pound pack (turned out to be two, I thought it was one) of boneless.

I trimmed a bunch of the fat, but left a good amount. It cooked for about 8.5 hours and was pretty **** good.

These are what they looked like:

I tied them with some cooking twine:

4 hours into the cook:

This is what it looked like when I pulled it to rest:

It was 5am so I needed to try the chunk that 'broke off'.

Pulling:

Pulled:

 

[Jim Lampe]

Very Nice Tom!
Nuttin' like butt for breakfast!!