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Post by Clipper on May 22, 2021 14:54:58 GMT -5
I put a 6 pound pork butt in the crock pot last night at midnight with a 1/2 cup of orange juice, 1/2 cup of chicken broth, and sprinkled the top with fresh cracked black pepper, two small cloves of garlic finely diced, and sliced onions. I just took it out of the crock pot and pulled it using two forks. There was just enough fat to insure that it came out nice and moist and juicy. Kathy isn't crazy about BBQ or smoky flavors so I will mix half of it with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce for me to eat on a roll, and the rest she will eat plain or with gravy. I was surprised to see how tasty the gravy turned out with the cup of orange juice in the cooking liquid.
It is hotter than hell here today so a nice BBQ sandwich and a fresh crisp green salad will really hit the spot. It is about 85 degrees but feels much hotter since we have not gotten used to the hot weather yet. I have been outside weed eating, and spraying around the fences and trees with vinegar/dawn dish soap/epsom salts solution to kill the grass and weeds around things where I can't get close to mow with the lawn tractor. It is a beautiful day and the forecast is for much of the same all week with only a slight chance of a pop up shower in some places. I love summer when I can be outside doing what I like best. I broke out my straw gardening hat today. I noticed that my balding head was getting pretty darkly tanned. I burnt my head last summer, and it was not a pleasant experience to say the least.
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Post by BHU on May 22, 2021 16:39:21 GMT -5
I've done pulled pork as you did with OJ & it wasen't bad. The last time I made it in a crock pot I cut back on the ammount of bbq sauce by about half. I think too much of it overpowers the pork flavor. And yellow onions are a must have. I only use SBR's. Some of those other brands have too much smoke flavor imho. We use hard rolls from Star Bakery. They're the best.
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Post by Clipper on May 22, 2021 17:50:18 GMT -5
I miss hard rolls. They don't sell them here. I used to like to pick one up with my coffee at Stewarts on my way to work. They had them in a basket by the register, already buttered and wrapped to go. Another favorite way to eat them was to have them put on the grill when I stopped at a diner in the morning. I have no idea why they are not popular here. Probably the same sort of reason that people in NY state don't usually eat grits with their eggs in the morning.  |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on May 22, 2021 20:12:36 GMT -5
Do either of you do a dry rub on the pork butt and then allow it to smoke in a smoker for 15 hours or so. Then pull it and chop it up. Add BBQ sauce any variety to the serving of pork then top with coleslaw or apple fennel coleslaw ? I sort of like not mixing the BBQ sauce with the meat while it smokes(cooks).
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Post by Clipper on May 22, 2021 21:25:59 GMT -5
I have smoked a pork butt outside and pulled it but I have grown to like the quick and easy way. Put it in the crock pot with OJ and BBQ sauce and come back in 8 hours of so, take it out, pull it apart and eat it.
The only thing I smoke outside any more is brisket. We have a 5 burner grill and I put wet chips in a foil pan on one side and the meat on the other, smoke it for a couple hours and then let it cook slow and low for 8 or 10 hours. I DO rub on a brisket.
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Post by BHU on May 23, 2021 7:00:45 GMT -5
Do either of you do a dry rub on the pork butt and then allow it to smoke in a smoker for 15 hours or so. Then pull it and chop it up. Add BBQ sauce any variety to the serving of pork then top with coleslaw or apple fennel coleslaw ? I sort of like not mixing the BBQ sauce with the meat while it smokes(cooks). I don't have a smoker so we use our crock pot for pulled pork. I use Clipper's recipe for it. I like coleslaw but I'm not a fan of putting it over pulled pork. Just not into it. |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on May 23, 2021 19:16:00 GMT -5
Interesting. I have tried cooking meats in one of those slow cookers and never liked the taste. Major reason why I threw out the cooker I had.
Also how do you sleep with the aroma of food cooking in the kitchen? I never could...
How large a cooker for a 6 lb pork shoulder. Must be huge.....
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Post by BHU on May 23, 2021 21:57:49 GMT -5
Interesting. I have tried cooking meats in one of those slow cookers and never liked the taste. Major reason why I threw out the cooker I had. Also how do you sleep with the aroma of food cooking in the kitchen? I never could... How large a cooker for a 6 lb pork shoulder. Must be huge..... "How do you sleep with the aroma?"........... Well, it's either that or order take out every night. |
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Post by Clipper on May 23, 2021 22:26:03 GMT -5
I love waking up to the aromas. We just have the standard sized oval shaped crockpot. A six pound pork butt is not that large. It fit into the crockpot just fine.
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