Pulled Pork

[mbcrui]

Made pulled pork for dinner, except I don't know how to make pulled pork.  So I faked it-- did a dry rub with brown sugar, kosher salt, chili powder, cumin, lots of fresh cracked pepper.  Rubbed the pork roast, put it in the oven for 7 hours at 250 degrees.  Then I used the fat separator to degrease the sauce , shredded the pork, then poured the

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[anonymous]

I don't remember exactly how Alton Brown did it, but other than putting it in the oven (he built some sort of a smoker, out of flower pots IIRC), your recepie sounds about right: rub, cook slowly, shred and add any sause -- preferably one based on the cooked meat.

I'm not sure I've got the paitence for that long of a cooking process, especially if I'm around during it :-)

mea culpa

[rono_60103]

That was me commenting.

I'm at church getting ready to work on tonight's service (support sermon notes only today), and forgot to log into live journal before replying

Re: mea culpa

[mbcrui]

no prob. I rubbed it, and put it in in the morning and set the cook timer on the oven. It would shut itself off if we weren't around...

[jennlk]

That's pretty much how it's made. Put sliced onions under/over the roast, vary the rub, use bar-be-que sauce in addition to the drippings, etc. (I use the crock pot rather than the oven; L really likes it with Sweet Baby Ray's Vidalia sauce.) Disappeared in a hurry at the grad party.

[sraun]

I like using my crockpot for it. We get Famous Dave's sauce & a big pork shoulder at CostCo, I cut the shoulder in half because that's how big my crockpot is. All day on low in the crockpot, take out, shred, pour the juices into something, refrigerate, pull the solidified fat off the top, put in a pot and reduce until saucy instead of juicy, put shredded pork, reduction, and more bottled sauce back in the crockpot. Oh, some onions and some garlic get added to the first cooking.

[serendipoz]

Obviously that's now your recipie for pulled pork. Good going!