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Butt (Day 3)
So the butt sat in the marinade for 7 hours. But and I decided to inject the butt last night too. I used half of the injection last night and then I will use 1/4 of it before I put the butt on the Egg, and then the remaining 1/4 will get injected before I go to bed tonight.

How to inject a butt:

Stogies Pork Injection
2 cups apple juice or cider
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup corn syrup
1 tbsp of the rub you use on the butt (finely ground)

Mix all ingredients together and heat over a low burner until the rub mixture is dissolved. Cool to room temperature. IMPORTANTE: Do not inject the butt with hot liquid - ever.

As for the rub - I used something called a Voo Doo rub and it consists of:

1 cup cane sugar (Hawaii)
1/2 cup Lawry's seasoned salt
1/4 cup garlic salt
2 tablespoons celery salt
2 tablespoons onion salt
1/2 cup Hungarian hot paprika
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tablespoon mustard powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1/2 teaspoon MSG

You will want to pull the butt out an hour before grill time and bring it to room temperature. When you pull the butt out, you want to rub it. Let me recommend this - do not actually rub the butt. Sprinkle the rub mixture on to the butt, but don't rub the butt. This will clog the pores of the meat and that's not what you want to do. Nobody hates a clogged pored butt more than me.

After you spread the rub on the butt, you need to build your fire. Today we are using some Wicked Good Lump - Weekend Warrior Blend. Split the lump into large, medium, and small piles. Spread large pieces across the bottom of the grill first, single story pile please. Then fill in any holes or gaps with the medium pieces. Last, spread small pieces across the top. Start one large piece of lump on another grill grate - but not on the grill you are going to use. Once your starter piece is good add it to the center of your lump in the grill you are going to use and bring that baby to 190 degrees. Once stabilized at that temp, add your butt, and grill indirectly for 18 hours.

Baby Got Blog

I am on stacation (vacation time where you don't actually go anywhere) this week. Instead of travelling, I am researching lump charcoal for a baking contest at work this Friday. Grilling and baking are the same, except grilling involves beer and an occasional cigar. I am preparing pulled pork for the good folks at work and will provide the details of what goes into a pork butt over the course of the week.

Saturday and Sunday were spent looking at research performed by an independent body (http://www.nakedwhiz.com/) on various lump charcoals that other BBQ enthusiast have used. While I would love me some Real Montana Maple Lump Charcoal, I have located some Wicked Good Charcoal - Weekend Warrior Blend about 30 minutes from house as well as Wegmans Brand lump charcoal. Traditionally I have used the Big Green Egg brand lump and have been very pleased. As a test for the butt, I used the Wegmans brand lump on some cedar planked salmon. The results - terrible lump, great fish. I was so pleased with the fish, I made it again the next night, but this time I brined the salmon for about 4 hours in water, kosher salt, and brown sugar. I then cooked the salmon on a maple plank that had been soaking for 4 hours in water at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. If there are two things I learned during this test they are:
1. Brine salmon because the taste is so much better
2. Wegmans brand lump is terrible

Butt Update (Day 1)
Picked up the butts today. That's right - two 8.5 pound pork butts with the bone left in. Let me take a moment to explain the butt. A pork butt is not the butt of a pig - for pulled pork you actually use a shoulder, and the shoulder is often referred to as a butt. There is also a pork picnic that you can use which is the shoulder with a little piece of the leg left on it. Example: Look at your shoulder and then imagine cutting it off and leaving a little piece of your arm on - that's a picnic. Next steps will include: injecting, rubbing, and pulling the butt.

The Best First Blog Ever

So this dude at work created a blog and hooked it into Google ads and made like $2.45 in 3 days - that's $2.45 he didn't have before his blog. I figured I can write stupid stuff that people will get a kick out of and make some money while doing it...and so The Daily Blog Blog was born.So what is The Daily Blog Blog about? Whatever is on my mind - that's what. So let's get started...Likes: My green lawn, grilling on The Big Green Egg (posts on this to come later - in the mean time Google it if you don't know what it is), guns (although I don't own one I think the idea of one is pretty cool), and camp fires.Dislikes: Mean people and bumper stickers that say "Mean People Suck". I think people that have that as their mantra are pretty stupid. That might be the most ridiculous saying you could put on your car as a sticker or on your body as a t-shirt or God forbid a tattoo. If someone had that as a tattoo it should be in the book I recently finished reading entitled "No Regrets". This book contains the most hysterical tattoos out there. But I digress - I enjoy having fun with people and making them laugh. I dabble in humor at least three times a day, but sometimes there are people that need to brought back into reality and so what comes out of my mouth might seem mean at the time, but afterwards we have a mental hug and all is sound in the world. So The Daily Blog Blog will be entries of the stories, run-ins, and tales from my daily life that involve me and some other character and our ability to get past hating each other and get back to living.