Hi All,
I got round to doing a Pulled Pork in the smoker at the weekend - a relatively small 2kg joint. I salted it for 15 minutes or so before adding the Memphis Dust Rub (which in the end sat on it for another 30-45 minutes before cooking - see below).
I had some big issues lighting using my chimney starter on Saturday due to the wind (seems to wrap around my garden a lot). This meant I ended up putting it in a little later then expected at around 5pm. I had to deploy some new methods
So the real fun part, due to the issues, I put this on later then expected and it did take some time to get to the right temp. At about 10:30 I had it at 65c and it had been smoking for at least 4 hours. At this point, the BBQ was getting a little low on fuel (the wind playing its part), however given the time I didn't want to put more coal in.
I took the decision to switch to the oven @ 125c, double wrapped it in foil and added some apple juice for moisture. Once in the oven, it took quite a while to start to creep up, I imagine I hit the well known pork shoulder stall. By 1am my eyes were pretty heavy and it had only reached 70c.
Refusing to be beaten, I headed to bed and set some alarms throughout the night. After a few trips down to check and baste, it eventually reached 94c at 5am. I grabbed it out of the oven, left it to rest and headed back to bed. By the time I got up at 930am it had already been pulled (thanks to my wife) - so I don't have a completed cooked photo. However, I can say before the wrapping the bark looked great. Of course, I did take a quick piece and it tasted excellent!
When it came to re-heating for some family coming round, I quickly chucked some in a pan, more apple juice and water this time and gently reheat it. Again it tasted great, not dry at all - probably the best pulled pork I've ever had, the smokey flavour was great. Pleased to say I was very well complemented by the family
So TLDR, here is the pre-smoker and post pulled photos
If you look at the last photo, you can see the smoke ring and some bark. Genuinely really happy, would happily do some more this week!