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I'm curious, are we only using pork butt for smoking? I've done the loin before, but when it comes down to a superior product, butt is the only (and I mean only) way to go. Smoked some trout the other day and really experience my first success with fish (I find my salmon always ends up to dry). I did brisket with a vinegar was once, ended up with a very tender piece of meat that was so salty I we could hardly eat it (an expensive mistake I must say).

I also find a smoked potato be a wonderful accompaniment to about anything.
If you're going to be smoking a pork butt, make sure you get your hands on a ti plant if you can. You'll probably have to keep it inside in Iowa. Take some ti leaves and wrap them around a lightly-salted pork butt and put the whole thing in foil. Stick it on the smoker for about 6 hours and you're ready to roll.

It's delicious, it's cheap and it makes the perfect Good Friday dinner.
Dry rub and wrapped for at least 24 hours before slow smoking/cooking with applewood chunks. Don't even think of opening grill for first two hours but when you do spray that butt with apple juice. Can take off grill if you want after two hours, wrap in foil and finish 2 hours in oven at 300. Let it rest another hour and then it's on to heavenly flavor.

and JJSD is dead on with this: Golden opportunity for beers all day long.
Yes, the butt stall between 150 degrees and 190 degrees is a beer drinking sweet spot if ever there was one.

In NC bbq is whole hog and chopped.

In SC bbq is butt only and pulled. Ours is superior. I do like the vinegar/pepper sauces of NC from time to time, but SC mustard based gold is the king.

As a kid in WI, we called our Weber grill the barbecue.
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Originally posted by JJSD:
Why? 6 hours on the smoker = I need to spend the day making sure nothing goes wrong back there. Golden opportunity for beers all day long. #alldayerfreefromparenting

I forgot to mention - the Kahlua pig must be cooked over mesquite and coal - that's the wood they use there. It's damn good.


What? We need wood to smoke that pork but? Well, duh?
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Originally posted by El-Ka-Bong:
I've had excellent results with ribs and indirect heat on the grill


That's it. Just add some wood @ the beginning and you're off. I still use the Weber kettle for this, so I have rib racks for space saving.

Lifted from this great website.:

2 cups prepared yellow mustard
2/3 cup cider vinegar
3 tablespoons tomato paste
1/2 teaspoon chipotle Tabasco sauce or you favorite hot sauce
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules or 1 cube
2 teaspoons dried rosemary leaves
1 teaspoon celery seed
3 teaspoons mustard powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 teaspoon table salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

About the mustard. To be authentic, use yellow ballpark style mustard, not Dijon. Besides, it just doesn't taste right with Dijon.

About the tomato paste. You can substitute ketchup if you wish.

Method
1) Mix the wet ingredients together in a bowl.
It's not a "hate the sin, love the sinner" thing. Christ teaches us not to judge. Acknowledge sin- sure. A person who has a proclivity to sin must battle that temptation. I do every day. So does everyone.

Christians and their churches have done a horrible job with this. It's frustrating to get lumped into the intolerant masses. It's as much a sin to condemn others as it is to lie with the same sex, IMO.
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