Pat Barnes
TVWBB Pro
In spite of 12" of rain this week(no typo)
my wife and I had our party anyway. Just left out the "pool" part.
I cooked 4 4lb boneless Boston butts. My meat market cuts the full butts roughly in half as they slice the bone end for "country style ribs". I'll try to make this brief:
Used the Minion method. Had trouble with too much heat but that's my fault. Will pay more attention at startup next time.
Used 4 ifferent rubs to see the differences.
1-mustard/brown sugar slather
2-Cajun ragin' from Smoke&Spice
3-plain jane(salt/pepper/garlic powder.
4-rub that the meat market makes and sells.
Cooked for about 8 hours at varying temps(my fault).
All were done a little too much(my fault again) but ate well.
The local-rubbed was the consensus favorite
with mustard a close second.
Made a batch of Memphis Magic sauce. Really good stuff with pork,probably chicken also.
We normally use Stubb's Original as most of the sauces on the market are waaaay too sweet for beef.
All in all a good experience-except for the rain.
Brisket next week!!!!
my wife and I had our party anyway. Just left out the "pool" part.
I cooked 4 4lb boneless Boston butts. My meat market cuts the full butts roughly in half as they slice the bone end for "country style ribs". I'll try to make this brief:
Used the Minion method. Had trouble with too much heat but that's my fault. Will pay more attention at startup next time.
Used 4 ifferent rubs to see the differences.
1-mustard/brown sugar slather
2-Cajun ragin' from Smoke&Spice
3-plain jane(salt/pepper/garlic powder.
4-rub that the meat market makes and sells.
Cooked for about 8 hours at varying temps(my fault).
All were done a little too much(my fault again) but ate well.
The local-rubbed was the consensus favorite
with mustard a close second.
Made a batch of Memphis Magic sauce. Really good stuff with pork,probably chicken also.
We normally use Stubb's Original as most of the sauces on the market are waaaay too sweet for beef.
All in all a good experience-except for the rain.
Brisket next week!!!!