I STOPPED Buying Pork Butt — This Old Pitmaster Trick Gets Twice the Meat for Half the Price

📗 Get My Complete BBQ Guides Here: https://earljacksonbbq.com/ If you've ever smoked a boneless pork butt all day and pulled it apart to find pale, spongy meat in the middle, the problem started at the store, not at your pit. I bought 16 pounds of boneless trays for $52.64 and 16 pounds of bone-in butts in a bag for $27.04, same store, same morning, and cooked them side by side on the same pit at 250 degrees. I read the small print on both labels, trimmed the fat cap to a quarter inch, rubbed them the night before, and ran the trays six hours and forty-five minutes against twelve hours and forty-five minutes on the butts. Then I weighed every pound of pulled meat on a kitchen scale. The trays gave me eight pounds. The bag gave me eight and a quarter. That works out to $6.58 a pound for what you actually eat from the trays and about $3.28 from the bag, roughly two to one on the back of the receipt. Somewhere around the twelfth hour I show you the thing Walter Tolliver did with the blade bone that no thermometer can tell you. If you cook shoulders for your family and you're tired of paying for salt water, this one's for you. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Two Piles, Same Weight 01:39 – What I Wanted To Find Out 03:04 – The Word On The Label 04:36 – What Solution Costs You 05:59 – What's In The Bag 07:51 – The Price Gap 09:12 – Opening Both Packages 10:46 – Rubbing The Trays 12:04 – Confinement Odor Explained 13:08 – Trimming The Fat Cap 14:38 – Lighting A Clean Fire 15:47 – Meat On The Pit 17:09 – The Trays Come Off 18:10 – Cutting Off The Netting 19:21 – Gray Meat, Ham Texture 20:23 – Hitting The Stall 21:49 – When To Wrap 23:13 – Probing At 200 24:26 – Walter's Bone Test 25:45 – Why The Bone Works 27:13 – Resting And Pulling 28:55 – Weighing Both Piles 29:47 – The Real Price Per Pound 31:18 – Cost Per Sandwich 32:28 – Final Score Card 33:33 – When Trays Make Sense 34:34 – Pork Safety Numbers 35:59 – Your Homework This Week 36:53 – What's Coming Next #PulledPork #PorkButt #BostonButt #BBQOnABudget #OffsetSmoker #LowAndSlow #PitmasterTips #BBQScience #EnhancedPork #BarbecueBasics