Recipe: Yummy Smoked Pulled Pork

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Smoked Pulled Pork. Monitor hickory chips and liquid, adding more wood and water, respectively, as needed. Smoking Pulled Pork is a Waiting Game For the first five hours of the cook don't open the lid on your smoker. I will check the level of my pellets (I use a Traeger), but otherwise, leave the smoker alone!

Smoked Pulled Pork Add separated liquid back into pork and season to taste with additional Traeger Big Game Rub. Optionally, add Traeger 'Que BBQ Sauce or your favorite BBQ sauce to taste. If you prefer not to have a crispy outside, you can wrap the meat in heavy duty aluminum foil for the last three hours of cooking. You can have Smoked Pulled Pork using 3 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Smoked Pulled Pork

  1. It's of Boston Butt.
  2. You need of Yellow Mustard.
  3. You need of BBQ Rub.

Remove from the heat and "pull" the meat. This means to separate the meat from any fat, gristle or bone, pulling the meat into strips suitable for sandwiches. You can also use a Pork Shoulder Roast (aka picnic roast) to make Smoked Pulled Pork as well. This cut of meat also comes from the pig's leg, but is located just below the pork butt.

Smoked Pulled Pork instructions

  1. Trim all fat and apply mustard all over..
  2. Apply rub all over..
  3. Hot smoke @ 225°F for 6 hours..
  4. Pull pork from smoker and temp. Should be @ 140-160 degrees internal temperature. Wrap pork in foil and add water. Return to smoker for 2-3 more hours..
  5. Pull pork and temp it. Should read 198. Remove foil and discard..
  6. Bring smoker to 250°F and glaze pork for 30-45 minutes..
  7. Pull from smoker and rest for 30 minutes. Hand pull pork and sauce lightly. Serve on plain white bread bun. The bread is for holding the pork..

It has a little less marbled fat throughout the fibers, but when cooked low and slow, it also shreds easily. Plan For Enough Time Smoked pulled pork is generally very juicy and forgiving. If you are running short on time, it's okay to quickly nuke it in the microwave. Ideally, the pork is reheated in the oven. Smoked pulled pork can be used anywhere that ground beef is used such as on tacos, in burritos, on taco salad, on pizza, mixed with cream cheese as a dip, piled on top of baked potatoes, with eggs and potatoes for breakfast and almost anything else you can imagine.