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How to smoke a Boston Butt on the Big Green Egg

The BBQ Buddha
This recipe for How to smoke a Boston Butt on the Big Green Egg is my go to for pulled pork sandwiches.
4.94 from 16 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 8 hours
Total Time 8 hours 15 minutes
Course Main
Cuisine BBQ
Servings 12

Ingredients
  

  • 8 to 10 pound Boston Butt
  • 2 Tbsp yellow mustard
  • For the mop:
  • 1 cup apple juice
  • ½ cup apple cider vinegar
  • Several dashes of hot sauce
  • Several dashes of Worcestershire sauce

Instructions
 

  • Take your Boston Butt out an hour before cooking it
  • Fill your Big Green Egg with lump charcoal placing 3-4 hickory wood chunks in the charcoal
  • Light your Big Green Egg lump charcoal and set temp to 250°
  • Cross hatch the fat cap on the Boston Butt
  • Apply mustard slather and then rub
  • Once the Big Green Egg is stable at 250° and the smoke is clean, put your pork in
  • Leave untouched for 3 hours
  • Mix the mop ingredients together (Apple juice, Apple Cider Vinegar, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce)
  • After 3 hours start spraying/mopping the sauce on the Boston Butt every hour for the next 5 hours
  • At the 5 hour mark take your Boston Butt off and wrap in foil with a little mop applied to the Butt
  • Putt back on the Big Green Egg, bump temperature to 275° and let cook another 2 hours
  • When the meat is probe tender and measures 204° take the Boston Butt off the Big Green Egg
  • Make a crack in the foil to let steam escape and Boston Butt to stop carryover cooking
  • After 20-30 minutes, wrap the foil tight, place Boston Butts in cooler with a towel and let rest for an hour or two before pulling meat and serving
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