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Wrap Pork Butt and Finish Cooking

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Traeger Pork Butt Recipe

What happens here

After approximately 3 hours of smoking (or when the internal temperature reaches around 165°F), the pork butt is ready for wrapping. The host noted an increase in smoker temperature from 225°F to 260°F during this phase to speed up cooking. Carefully remove the pork butt from the smoker and place it into a clean aluminum foil pan. Drizzle any remaining honey into the pan. Add a light dusting of Kinder's Master Salt seasoning (or a similar garlic, sea salt, butter-flavored rub) over the meat in the pan to enhance the flavor. Cover the pan tightly with heavy-duty aluminum foil to create a sealed environment, which helps to braise the meat and prevent it from drying out, holding in moisture. Reinsert the temperature probe through the foil into the thickest part of the meat. Return the wrapped pork butt to the smoker and continue cooking until it reaches desired tenderness (usually around 200-205°F internal temperature, or when the probe slides in 'like butter' with minimal resistance). This final stage may take another 3-6 hours.

Goal: Once the pork butt reaches an internal temperature of around 165°F, it is removed, placed in a foil pan with additional ingredients, wrapped, and returned to the smoker to finish cooking until tender.

Tools and materials

  • Aluminum Foil Pan
  • Heavy-Duty Aluminum Foil
  • Traeger Temperature Probe
  • Honey
  • Kinder's Master Salt Seasoning
  • Pork Butt (partially smoked)

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is going to be 165 degrees this is our temperature probe we're going to plug it in right here it's going to ask me a question do i want the probe alarm to go off yes set our temp 165 is what we're shooting for it's our goal temperature put our pan of water in there to keep the humidity up we'll give her one more little spritz yeah what you'll find is this piece of meat will develop a bark over the outside of it a bark meaning kind of a brownish uh blackish color almost so over time this thing's going to develop that bark it's going to get that smoke ring that's deeply penetrated into the meat now if you don't have a smoker again you can use a conventional oven you can still do exactly what we're doing right here okay so we're just gonna set it and forget it because if you're looking you ain't cooking we'll come back in here and we'll spritz it down we'll bring you guys back in a couple hours before we set it and forget it i want to show you guys the app so there's the traeger app it's loading up on my phone this monitors everything you need to look at on your uh traeger grill while you're working with it so the grill temps 219 our goals 225 our meat temps 38 degrees and our goal is 165 and i set a four hour timer on there guys so absolutely awesome if i'm not at home or if i'm out on the tractor when this thing gets done but we've got some more steps we're going to put it in a pan here if you're doing this in an oven you want to start off in a pan but if you're doing it outside the oven you're going to put it in a pan just like we're gonna do so we're gonna pick this piece of meat up it's gonna shrink down just a little bit and we'll put it into the same kind of pan that i used to put my water in and we'll show you that here in just a second so that's it we've got a few hours to go we'll let this cook and we'll go get some farm chores done awesome and i can watch it from my phone three hours in guys you tell me what you think oh baby look at that oh man i think we're in for an eight hour cook guys this is a little bit bigger piece of meat than i thought it was gonna be we're only at about 155 degrees and we're three hours into this almost four hours into this [Music] remember if you're looking you ain't cooking all right guys so this piece of meat took a lot longer to cook than i thought it was gonna take it's taken it six hours to get to this point and i actually bumped the temperature from 225 to 260. so we are at 166 right now and we're ready to go…

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