Smoked Pork Shoulder (Pork Butt)

This smoked pork shoulder is smoked is a 7-lb. pork shoulder that’s smoked for 7-8 hours after it’s rubbed in a scrumptious dry rub. In the course of the prepare dinner time this scrumptious pork shoulder is spritzed it with a easy apple cider spritz.

You should utilize this smoked pork shoulder on a sandwich, in burritos, over nachos, or on it’s personal. You possibly can’t beat it.

The Finest Smoked Pork Shoulder

This scrumptious pork shoulder has a scrumptious smoke taste and un unreal tenderness after you let it relaxation and shred it. We love this recipe as a result of it’s a low and sluggish recipe that leaves you with shredded pork that you should utilize so many alternative methods.

Featured Elements

Pork shoulder: this recipe makes use of a bone-in 7-lb. pork shoulder. We suggest utilizing a bone-in shoulder for smoking as a result of it provides a bit extra taste and fats.

Dry rub: the spices for this smoked pork shoulder are a mixture of candy, savory, and salty. Just be sure you don’t skimp on the salt. The salt tenderizes the meat and enhances the entire scrumptious flavors of the pork and different dry rub substances.

Pellets or wooden chips: although pellets and wooden chips are usually not an substances, we function them as a result of the very last thing you wish to do is run out of additional pellets or wooden chips half method by way of the smoking time.

What’s pork shoulder?

A pork shoulder comes from the shoulder of a pig. It sometimes has extra fats than a pork loin, which makes it nice for sluggish roasting or smoking. 

A pork shoulder and a pork butt can each be used. Each cuts of meat come from the shoulder. The pork butt has extra fats and the pork shoulder has extra muscole.

On this pork shoulder recipe, we’re utilizing a 6-7lb. bone-in pork shoulder.

Different names for pork shoulder: 

• pork butt
• picnic shoulder
• picnic roast
• Boston butt

Smoked Pork Shoulder FAQ

The best way to Make Smoked Pork Shoulder

1. Preheat and put together the smoker. Put together your pellet smoker, wooden chip smoker, or charcoal grills. Clear the grates and preheat the smoker to 250ºF.
2. Dry rub the pork shoulder. Combine collectively all of the dry rub substances and therapeutic massage the dry rub all around the pork shoulder. Let the pork sit within the dry rub for Half-hour or extra. for additional taste and tenderness.
3. Smoke the pork. Place the pork on the smoker and smoke the pork for 7-8 hours. Put together the apple cider spritz and spray the pork shoulder each hour or two to maintain the pork tender and moist.
4. Let the pork relaxation. As soon as the pork has reached an inner temperature of 190-205ºF take away the pork from the smoker and let it relaxation for Half-hour.
5. Get pleasure from. Shred the pork and luxuriate in it at a BBQ or all week.

High Ideas

Strive to not open the smoker too many occasions. In the event you open the smoker too many occasions all through the smoking course of, it is going to let loose warmth and can take longer to come back to temperature.

Have additional pellets readily available. Talking from expertise, be certain you test your pellet ranges and wooden chip ranges a number of occasions all through the prepare dinner time. If the pellets run out or wooden chips are low, the temperature will decrease.

Storage

Let the pork cool utterly earlier than inserting it in an hermetic container and place it within the fridge for as much as 5-7 days.

Smoked Pork Shoulder

This smoked pork shoulder recipe is made with a 7-lb. pork shoulder, a scrumptious dry rub, and smoked for about 7 hours. It leaves you with tender and juicy smoked scrumptious pork.

Prep:2 hours

Cook dinner:8 hours

Whole:10 hours

Fats 19

Carbs 6

Protein 52

Elements

• 1.5 tablespoons coarse salt
• 1.5 tablespoons darkish brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1.5 teaspoons paprika
• 1.5 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon floor mustard powder
• 1 teaspoon floor black pepper
• 7-8 lb. bone-in pork shoulder also called pork butt, we used a 7.5-lb. shoulder

Apple Juice Spritz

• ¼ cup apple juice
• ¼ cup bourbon
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar

Different

• We used the Signature Traeger pellets be happy to make use of no matter pellets you’d like..

Directions 

• Add the salt, brown sugar, garlic powder, paprika, chili powder, mustard powder, and black pepper in a bowl. Combine till mixed.

• Sprinkle half of the dry rub over the pork shoulder and therapeutic massage the rub into the meat. Flip the pork over and sprinkle the remainder of the dry rub on prime of the remainder of the pork and therapeutic massage the dry rub into the meat. Ensure the entire pork shoulder is coated.

• Wrap the pork shoulder in plastic wrap and place it within the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours or in a single day for finest outcomes.

• Preheat the smoker to 250ºF and add your smoking pellets or smoking chips to the smoker. We used the Signature Traeger Mix pellets. put together the apple juice spritz. Pour the apple juice, bourbon maple syrup, and apple cider vinegar right into a small spray bottle and shake it till mixed. Put aside.

• When the smoker is preheated, place the pork shoulder on the smoker and prepare dinner for 7-8 hours. Spritz the entire pork shoulder with the apple juice spritz each hour or hour and a half to maintain it from drying out.

• When the pork shoulder has been on the smoker for six hours, decrease the temperature to 200ºF.

• When the interior temperature of the pork reaches 195ºF-205ºF the pork is completed.

• Take away the pork from the smoker and let the meat relaxation for 20-Half-hour earlier than slicing or shredding.

• Serve on it’s personal, on tacos, on buns, or in a burrito bowl.

Ideas & Notes

• Timing for the way lengthy to prepare dinner the pork shoulder varies by smoker and by how massive your pork shoulder is.
• Be at liberty so as to add your favourite spices to the dry rub for this pork shoulder.
• You should utilize no matter sort of pellets or wooden chips that you just’d like for this recipe.
• You have to round 20-lb. pellets for this recipe.

Diet information

Energy: 426kcal Carbohydrates: 6g Protein: 52g Fats: 19g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 5g