More Butts To Smoke!

[SigNate]

I have about 42 pounds of butts to get on the smoker. It's my Granddaughter's two year birthday party this Saturday and my daughter wants to have pulled pork sliders so I went to Restaurant Depot Tuesday and picked up four nice butts two of which are "bone in" and two are "boneless".

Alright, so yesterday morning I threw together a lil injection marinade for two of the butts. Trying it on one of the boneless and one of the bone in. when done to the back burner it went to cool down for when it was time to inject. Actually after cooling down I put it into a quart sized mason jar and took the stick blender to it to make it injectable without any clogging of the injector needle.

Oh, I had to run an errand so while out I ran down to the French Quarter and grabbed one and a half muffalettas from Central Grocery on Decatur.
Gotta eat lunch right?

It has been a while since I had a Central Grocery muffaletta and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. Mmmmm.............

Yesterday evening I took the butts out of the fridge and wiped the outer wrapper down nice and clean(Yeah, I'm that anal)and proceded to inject one each in each package.

You can see here how much less of a mess injecting them while in the vacuum packages it is. No wild squirts onto the cabinets or ceiling. Only a little leakage where you insert the needle.

After letting that sit for a while I removed them from the packages and dried them off. After rubbing down with Steens Cane Syrup I let 'em sit to dry some yet remain sticky enough for the dry rub to stay on them.

While that was drying some I got the Traeger ready for a long overnight smoke. Cleaned the grate, change the foil on the drip pan and loaded the hopper with a bunch of Aple wood pellets.

Time to apply the dry rub and just wait a little while longer to load them on the Traeger.

I checked on them around 3 this morning and everything was going as planned.
This morning about seven looking and smelling wonderful!

Almost want to lick this one it's looking so good.