Despite having a head cold and sore throat I undertook smoking a pork butt. It snowed like crazy today so in between checking the temperature we shoveled the driveway several times.
About my smoking project, I have a small water smoker given to me by my sister DeLicia. I have a hard time keeping that at the right temperature in the summer which means it would be next to impossible in the winter. I found many articles on how to smoke in your gas grill. So after marinating and rubbing the butt, I soaked wood chips and set my grill up for indirect heat.
I laid my pan of soaked wood chips on the down side of my grill (I could see smoke was going toward the right so I put the chips on the left). I placed the butt in the middle of the grill with those two burners off and fired up the outside burners to control heat.
I took my probe thermometer, suspended it to read temperature inside the grill (the grill thermometer is broken) and began the process. I tried to keep the grill temperature between 210 and 250. Using the gas grill has made controlling the temperature much easier.
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I started it smoking at 7:30 am...by 1:30 pm, I probed the meat and found internal temperature between 177 and 180...so we are getting close! I want to hit around 190 because I hear at that point the connective tissues break down.
My head is pounding, I want to nap!
I'll let you know how the pulled pork turns out.
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