I am planning a traditional pulled Q - my first on the smoker. My shoulder
is about 60% covered with the skin. Should I remove this or not?

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"Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
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> I am planning a traditional pulled Q - my first on the smoker. My
shoulder
> is about 60% covered with the skin. Should I remove this or not?
>
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> Peter Aitken
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I have yet to encounter a shoulder with skin on it, but I've done a
few
picnics and the 'Q'd' skin adds nice taste and texture to the pulled
pork
after it's chopped up and mixed in. I believe 'Bob in Ga' has some
pertinent comments in the BBQ FAQ.

Brick.

In article > , "Peter
Aitken" > wrote:

> I am planning a traditional pulled Q - my first on the smoker. My shoulder
> is about 60% covered with the skin. Should I remove this or not?

It can be a wrestle but you get better rub coverage if you remove the
skin. Some people score through it. Last butt I did I cooked direct
and used the skin as the deflector-kind of a pad to rest the meat on.
It worked pretty well.
Since it's your first I wanna say don't pull it until the internal is
over 190F. You want that bugger fallin apart.

monroe(gettin the butt hankerin again)

Peter Aitken wrote:
> I am planning a traditional pulled Q - my first on the smoker. My
> shoulder is about 60% covered with the skin. Should I remove this or
> not?


Not.

TMF®

"The Fat Man®" > wrote in message
m...
> Peter Aitken wrote:
> > I am planning a traditional pulled Q - my first on the smoker. My
> > shoulder is about 60% covered with the skin. Should I remove this or
> > not?
>
>
> Not.
>
> TMF®
>

Thanks all. It is going in the smoker soon, skin intact.


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