First High Heat Butt.

[S.Six]

Been looking at the pit barrel cooker and wanted to try cooking a pork butt in that style. I had around a 9lb butt rubbed down with Bad Byron's Butt Rub, mesquite for smoke, water pan removed. Started with almost a full chimney of lit on top of mostly used charcoal.

Wsm started around 300° then dropped to 255°(all vents wide open). In 2hrs the temp climbed back up to 300°. After about 2.5hrs i gave it a flip. At about 4hrs 45mins internal temp was around 160° pulled it off and foiled it up in aluminum foil put back on the wsm.

After opening it the temp spiked to 400°! Backed the bottom vents to 1/4 open. Once temped dropped below 350° opened vents 1/2 way. In about 7.5hrs the butt was done! Last one i did L&S took around 14hrs. This one was probably the most tender butt I've ever cooked! Very moist too!
Sorry, no plated pix but we've all seen pulled pork right? All in all this was a very good cook in almost half the time! Will definitely be doing this again!
Thanks for looking, see you next cook!

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Looks great Six! Great bark!

 

[Clint]

I've done HH (275-325) butts a few times - 9-10 hours, no reduction in quality that I've seen.... now I want to do one

 

[Craig Alumbaugh]

That is some good info, now I want to try one and see how it turns out. Thanks for the pic's

 

[Tim K]

Since I've foiled my water pan, I only cook my boston butts at 265*-275*. I know a 7(+/-) pounder will take right around 9 hours. Perfect bark and always tender. If it ain't broke, far be it from me to try to fix it! Yours looks great as well, and I'm glad the higher temps worked for ya.
Tim

 

[Bill Schultz]

Very nice Six, looks perfect. I've done them both ways but prefer the high heat mostly cause of convenience when planning a gathering and also cause I saw no appreciable difference.