Warming Sauce up in Cooler with Pork


 
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Hey all,

I've recently gotten into trying to make my own sauces. I've started to bottle them in glass jars that originally came to me as store-bought bbq sauces.

Anyways, it is a cider vinegar/ketchup base sauce, and it is refrigerated now.

I like to sauce my meat as it's pulled as it soaks into the meat and makes it juicy, without being too heavy.

I'm planning to smoke 2 butts this week. Was thinking of putting the butts in the cooler, and putting the bottle of sauce in the cooler as well to heat it up.

The goal of that would be to get the sauce hot so that it soaks into the meat better.

Does anyone see any food safety issues with this? It seems like it would be easier than me pouring the sauce into a saucepan and heating it up on the stove.

I would plan to leave the butts and sauce bottle in the cooler for about 2 hours. Then I would take everything out, pull the pork and sauce it.

Thanks,

Bryan
 
The cold sauce will suck some of the heat from the butts. Problem I see and I'm no expert, is that letting the sauce come to room temp before you stick it the cooler could pose some risk. I would just nuke it a few minutes before you mix it with the PP. Just my €2.
 
Can you microwave a glass bottle? (serious question)

I usually only microwave plastic or ceramic containers.
 
The plate at the bottom of my microwave is glass. So it is safe. However all glass is not necessarily safe. One test is to microwave the glass empty for a few seconds. If it gets warm, I'd probably not use it.
 
I should have added to put it in microwave safe vessel. Preferably plastic, if you use ceramic or glass you spend as much time heating the container as you do the sauce.
 
Putting a bottle of cold sauce in with 2 hot butts will cool the pork slightly - if you are going to pull by hand after two hours a little cooling is NOT a bad thing
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Hey all,

I took Jeff's suggestion and warmed the bottle of sauce by placing in a saucepan of warm water.

This worked very well, and the sauce dissolved right into the meat.

I like for my sauce to work its way into the meat rather than sitting on top of the meat.

Thanks for your help.
 
Originally posted by Bryan B:
Can you microwave a glass bottle? (serious question)

I usually only microwave plastic or ceramic containers.
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Yes it's safe. Just remember it will be very hot, hotter than plastic. And never ever cover the glass bottle, jar, etc closed tight with say a lid. Bad things will happen if it's covered tight. All that said I microwave glass jars, bottles, and Pyrex all the time. Remember that unless the glass says shock proof, never take it from super heated/hot to say an ice water bath. Again, bad things will happen. And not all Pyrex is shock proof.
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