Molasses slathered butts

[muebe]

Noticed the chest freezer was on the last package of pulled pork. Was time to make some more. I had two frozen butts in the freezer from Costco...

I thawed them enough to remove the cryovac package. Then I used silicone bands around it to keep it in one piece. They could not be separated anyways due to being frozen solid...

I then slathered the butt with Braer Rabbit Molasses and BP Money rub. Onto the Memphis with a setpoint of 200F and the hopper loaded with 12lbs of Pecan. That was at 11 PM. They were too frozen to insert the probes so I gave them about 30 minutes and then shoved them in...

So I woke up in the morning at 6AM and I found the IT on both the Maverick and ITC probe to be at 105F. I relocated the probes to each side of the butts. As you can see I lost a couple of silicone bands that snapped lengthwise

I bumped the temp up to 220F until the IT of the butts was at 150F then bumped the temp up to 265F until the IT was 195F and 200F. They finished at 1:30pm...

continued...

 

[muebe]

I FTC'd them for 3 hours. Then proceeded to pull em'...

Here is the amount of grease in the drain catch after they finished...

And the amount of pellets that were left in the hopper after the cool down period(at just under 3lbs left after removing and weighing)...

So we have a total of 14.5 hours of smoke time. And I used 9lbs of pellets. So that is 0.62lbs per hour. Not bad considering the butts were frozen solid

The Money Rub and Molasses made for a great tasting bark!

 

[sparky]

man, you did a nice job on those butts. only 9 lbs of pellets after 15 hours of smoke time. very good. i love the smoke ring. bark as great color to it. well done partner.

 

[dospelotas]

Beautiful.... Wondered the cook time if they were not frozen? What would the temp config be for totally thawed when placed on grill?

 

[Chili Head]

Nice job! I've used molasses but not money on butts yet. I'll try that next time.

 

[muebe]

Beautiful.... Wondered the cook time if they were not frozen? What would the temp config be for totally thawed when placed on grill?

It only seemed to add maybe an hour or so of extra time. The last ones I did thawed that were the same weight were 12 hours on one and 14 hours on the other.

 

[HogSmoker]

SHUT the front door ! man that looks great !

 

[squirtthecat]

Yessir !

 

[TentHunter]

So we have a total of 14.5 hours of smoke time. And I used 9lbs of pellets. So that is 0.62lbs per hour. Not bad considering the butts were frozen solid.

Not bad at all! The pulled pork looks pretty dang good too!