Pork Butt Hold Time


 
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Jerry S.

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Due to higher than planned temps the first few hours of my cook the pork butt has finished much earlier than expected. I have wrapped it in 4 sheets of HD aluminum foil and stuffed it in a small cooler covered with towels. It is also setting in the sun and it is 95 outside. My assumption is that it will stay hot for the next 6-7 hours. Do i need to stick a probe in to monitor the temperature?

Thanks!
 
Hmmm ... You might want to temp it a 6 hours.

On second thought, considering that the "Danger Zone" is under 140º for more than 4 hours and that a wrapped butt will keep 140º+ for 3~4 hours easy, your 6~7 hour target should well within the safe range.
 
I wouldn't try to hold just one that long. I hold four at a time in a well insulated cooler for six hours, no problem. I guess you could heat up a pizza stone and put in with it or something.
 
I have held one about that long before and I did leave the probe in so that I could tell when I needed to start pulling. Plus then you don't have to keep opening up the cooler and losing heat.
 
I have a probe in and it has been "resting" now for 3.5 hours. Meat temperature is still at 172 degrees. Appears I should be OK.
 
For future reference the pork butt was at 155 degrees when i finally took it out of the small cooler about 7 hours after taking it off of the smoker. I had also taken my black smoker cover and had put the cooler inside, in the sun. Meat was great!
 
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