Did my 1st butt this weekend, damn this stuff is good!

[den]

I did my first smoked butt this weekend for Memphis BBQ and I can't believe how good it turned out. I had a 7 1/4 # bone in butt and did the following:

1 - Rubbed it down the night before with Magic Dust from Mike Mills book Peace Love & BBQ and put it in a plastic bag in the fridge.

2 - Took it out of the fridge about an hour before putting it into the smoker.

3 - Smoked it with hickory until it reached an internal temp of 140.

4 - Sprayed it with a 3 to 1 mix of apple juice to Captain Morgan's every hour after it hit an internal temp of 100.

5 - Wrapped it in foil after it hit an internal temp of 165 and put it into the oven at 250 until it reached an internal temp of 200.

6 - Let it rest in the foil for an hour then chopped it up.

7 - Made awesome sandwiches with homemade cole slaw!

It was unbelievably good and of course I can't wait for the next one to make it better!

 

[fire it up]

Was really hoping to see some pics of it, sounds good though.
Congrats on a fine meal.

 

[cowgirl]

Great to hear! Congratulations on your smoking success.

 

[bbq engineer]

Gotta love a nicely smoked pork butt! Send pics next time!

 

[bassman]

Sounds good. There are folks around here who say "no pics, didn't happen".

 

[den]

I can smoke a pork butt but I cant figure out how to get the pics to be a small enough file size to meet the requirements of the web site. I do have some good pics though.

 

[smokin_tarheel]

You need to find a place like Photobucket on the web to store your qview then you can link your pics from there into SMF. There are places other than Photobucket, I started out there and it works fine for me. http://www.photobucket.com

Your description sounds like it was great.

 

[indyadmin1974]

Sounds good! You'll get enough grief on no pics here...we just love to drool over meat!

 

[den]

If anyone wants to see the short photo essay I did over the weekend curing and smoking you can hit me at [email protected]

I'm curing the bellies now and will be firing up the smoker again this weekend.

Thanks for all the help on the site!

 

[gooose53]

No doubt doing your own is way better......hope to see pics next time. As has been mentioned "no pics...didn't happen". I'm bad about that too....so I don't mention that I smoke something almost every weekend but forget about the pics. Continued success!!

 

[dasmoker]

Download Irfan View. Its a free simple little picture viewer.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Open up a pic, click on the Image drop down menu, choose "resize/resample". In that window, I choose the percentage box. My cam's take BIG pics, so I usually just resize to 40% of original, then save. Now the pics are small enough to post. Give it a shot, very easy. An Irfan View is an awesome free picture viewer. Much better than anything that comes with windows, thats for sure.