My best pork butts yet, BUTT they raised some ?'s!!!


 
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It's always hard to say after the fact. Possibly the butt's weight was marked wrong, possibly you read the date or some other number as the weight (11-5 as 11.5?) - dunno. Water under the bridge.

Butts of that size are nonstandard if we're talking commercial pork, as pigs are generally slaughtered too young to reach that size. Can happen though, when breeders bite the dust, e.g. Still, it would be odd that were that the case, even cooking at high enough temps to finish the meat in 12 hours, that the yield would be so relatively minimal. Not impossible of course. But rather unexpected.

God luck with your next brisket cook!
 
Thought I'd resurrect a thread from a while back that might be of interest to some of our newer members. Note: My best pork butts have ALL been smoked since I posted this thread, at least the ones off of my wsm's. Also, some past posters I greatly respect like chef K. Kruger and a friend of mine, Glenn W., weighed in on the discussion.
 

 

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