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Big Joe’s Big Pulled Pork

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Ingredients

  • 1 large pork shoulder or butt cut, 6-8 lbs. in size excess fat trimmed. Do not trim any fat that is fully surrounding the meat.
  • 2 cups of rub (I use Butch’s but here’s a rub recipe that I’ve used before that works well)
  • Big Joe’s Emergency Rub
  • 1 cup paprika
  • 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar
  • 1 ⁄2 cup garlic powder
  • 1 ⁄4 cup sea salt or Kosher salt
  • 1 ⁄2 cup onion powder
  • 1 ⁄2 cup chili powder
  • 1 ⁄4 cup black pepper freshly ground
  • 1 ⁄4 cup cayenne pepper
  • 1 tablespoon white pepper
  • 2 tablespoons of dried thyme
  • 2 tablespoons of dried oregano
  • 1 ⁄4 cup ground cumin
  • 1 1⁄2 teaspoons finely grated orange zest
  • Butch’s Doctored Barbeque Sauce, Big Joe Style
  • 1 bottle 18 oz of Butch’s Mild Barbeque Sauce
  • 1 bottle 18 oz of Butch’s Pyro Barbeque Sauce (if you can’t get Butch’s try an upscale Barbeque sauce)
  • 2 tablespoons of habanera infused honey
  • 1 ⁄4 cup of orange juice
  • 1 ⁄2 cup of bourbon liquor (optional)
  • 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 package of potato rolls (hamburger style)

Details

Adapted from nj1015.com

Preparation

Step 1

Take the pork “butt” out of the refrigerator one hour before cooking. Preheat the oven to 225 degrees. Generously rub the shoulder with the dry rub. Make sure to get into the crevices, crannies and rub under the flaps of the shoulder. Be generous with the rub and take the time to really get in there.
Place the now rubbed shoulder butt on a rack in a roasting pan. Cover the shoulder with aluminum foil. Make sure that the aluminum foil is not touching the sides of the pork, but that it is fully wrapped. I like to add a 1⁄2 can of beer to the bottom of the pan. Make sure that the beer doesn’t touch the meat. The beer guarantees that the pork will retain moisture.
Cook the pork for approximately 8 hours. Remove foil and cook for 2 more hours. Make your oven time 10 hours. After removing the foil and the pork is back in the oven make the barbeque sauce.
In a large sauce pan, over medium heat add just a 1⁄4 of one bottle of barbeque sauce to pan, add garlic and orange juice, let reduce for about 5 minutes, add the honey and stir well with a wooden spoon. Add the bourbon and remainder of barbeque sauce. Let simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
After the ten hours have elapsed remove the pork and let stand for 1 hour. After standing using two forks, shred pork in strips putting pulled pork in serving dish. After pork has been pulled add approximately 1⁄2 – 3⁄4 of the barbeque sauce and mix pork well. Save the other half for sauce on the side.

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