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John Furdyn

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Last night DDD showed, a place supposedly smoking pork butt, that looked like a boneless butt, and the guy butterflied it.

In other words sliced it almost in half, flopped it over and basicly, it was half it's original thickness. Then supposedly smoked it for 4 hrs.

Question does anyone do this to boneless Butt?
I assume it would shorten the cooking time on the WSM ?
 
Saw that too. I haven't done it exactly like that, but I have on several occasions taken a boneless butt and cut it into strips, making like meat sticks on the WSM. These I usually let go for about 3 1/2-4 hours, and they are great. One thing it does is increase your surface area so the bark/meat ratio is higher, which is delicious.
 
I've seen this on another board. Over on the SmokeRing board, they were discussing this technique as a way to accomplish two things. Cooks faster and more surface area for bark.

Bob
 
Also saw it last night but really don't get it. Why not just cut it half or smaller pieces instead of butterflying. You get the faster cooking, more bark but also even cooking. I would think that with butterflying the "flaps" would cook faster than "base" where the flaps connect, hence uneven cooking.

On the same note, I have a serious hankering for chili verde after watching last night.
 
i do a similar thing with beef tenderloin from time to time as both the wife and i like the crispy ends from brisket the most. i cut the loin into three strips longways and cook on the wsm. gotta watch it close and yank it off soon as the bark forms which can be around 3-4 hours on a wsm running 250ish.
 
Correct me if I am wrong...but this technique is not likely to render as much fat as a traditional cook? I can see it working for a chili or stew.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Steve Petrone:
Correct me if I am wrong...but this technique is not likely to render as much fat as a traditional cook? I can see it working for a chili or stew. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

They were using the pork for chili verde.
 
I saw the same show, and I was thinking of trying it. I like the idea of butterflying it, you would get more bark (yummy). I typically cook a bone-in Butt(8-9 lbs) in about 5 hrs (high heat method 325-350F) it comes out just as good if not better than low and slow, IMO.
 
I saw that too and wondered.

Also a few months ago there was a discussion about DDD and I said that I didn't like Guy Fieri. Well, I watched the show and I couldn't have been more wrong. It is now a series recording and I just love the show and enjoy Guy as a host very, very much.

I searched and searched for the original thread to say this, but couldn't find it. I think it was in the social forum that is deleted after 90 days or something.

Anyways, I will have to try this.
 
Not to change the thread too much, but I was watching DDD a couple of months ago, when Guy visited Paradise Pup, a hamburger joint in the Chicago suburbs.
Found out, I was going to be within a few miles from the Pup a couple of weeks later, so, I had to make this place my first stop.
It lived up to Guy's billing, a great, but sloppy, burger!

I was kind of disappointed, tho, when they showed a pic on the wall of his Camaro being driven out of a trailer!
 
Chip

I always wondered how his camero got from one place to another. I kinda thought maybe he might drive it, but I'm sure now he wouldn't have had enough time to do that.
 
Cameron, I think it was a post I started. Fieri has one of those irritating personnas. You either like him or you don't. I find him very knowledgeable but juvenile. I'd rather watch Adam Richman on man vs food. The guy may not know a lot about food. but he seems to relate to everyone in the place he's visiting.


<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Cameron:
I saw that too and wondered.

Also a few months ago there was a discussion about DDD and I said that I didn't like Guy Fieri. Well, I watched the show and I couldn't have been more wrong. It is now a series recording and I just love the show and enjoy Guy as a host very, very much.

I searched and searched for the original thread to say this, but couldn't find it. I think it was in the social forum that is deleted after 90 days or something.

Anyways, I will have to try this. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by John Furdyn:
Chip

I always wondered how his camero got from one place to another. I kinda thought maybe he might drive it, but I'm sure now he wouldn't have had enough time to do that. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I always wondered that too but I knew he couldn't go all over the place in that car... Nice car though. I wonder if its a rental?
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