Posted on 07/29/2019 6:43:27 PM PDT by Rebelbase
This is BBQ heresy but I submit to you a BBQ hack I discovered today.
Cooked a 4 lb. butt in the crock pot with a 1/2 bottle of BBQ sauce for 7 hours then transferred most of it and a lot of the liquid into a disposable aluminum pan.
Started 1/2 doz charcoal brickettes and a couple of pieces of maple off to the side in the grill and once that was going put the pan opposite on the grate and covered with the lid vent holes wide open.
Stirred it three times in one hour then dumped it back in the crock pot for an hour.
Very good eats!
Letting it smoke for a another hour would have made it even better. Just make sure to stir it every 15 min. so the meat on top doesn't get dry and the smoke gets distributed into the rest of it.
Great way to bring BBQ into the work week.
Used maple because it was already cut up and near the grill.
In my mind low and slow qualifies as BBQ, smoke or not.
What do you think you got from the grill that you didn’t get from the slow cooker?
How much did your pork hunk weigh?
Oops. 4 lb. You said that. Sorry.
Smoke flavor from the grill. If it’s not smokey it’s not finished BBQ.
Forgot to add to the recipe: Toss the bone and mush it all up before transferring to the pan. No big chunks.
I don’t even know what to say. Heresy is an understatement. To be kind, you probably made some really tasty dog food. Just don’t tell anyone else what you did to that pork butt.
Pulled pork. On a potato bun dressed with coleslaw on top. That’s pretty close to culinary heaven.
I should have just nailed on the church door.
“you probably made some really tasty dog food.”
I don’t see anything wrong with what he did. What are you seeing that I’m not?
I know some true BBQ pros that have bragged about how good the InstaPot works for ribs. I am sure much like your crockpot but a lot less time.
Walmart used to have some really tasty pulled pork sandwiches for a buck fifty. I went in to get a couple and they were out at the moment. The lady told me to wait right there, and she grabbed this big vacuum packed bag and threw it in their microwave. A few minutes later, viola! Pulled pork.
I’ve got a worse (better) one.
Fill a large crock pot with your favorite ribs: pork or beef. Coat them with your favorite commercial bbq sauce (or homemade, yeah, but this is an easy peasy hack). Yes, dump the whole bottle in. Make sure you have 2 bottles. Cook for max 4 hours or else it will start falling off the bone, which you don’t want. In my giant crock pot 3.5 hrs is perfect.
Then put the ribs on a cooking sheet, a bit more sauce, heat up the broiler, and then stick them under it for 3 minutes or so (maybe less, watch it), until they develop those browned edges.
PEOPLE LOVE THIS. The meat is perfect and comes off the bone nicely. The sauce gives it the smoked flavor. They totally satisfy.
Tastes great.
I’ve done pork butt in a smoker many times. Done it in a crockpot many times following the instructions on a Mccormick spice pack. To be quite honest, pork is such an easy meat to cook good, I really can’t say which one I liked best.
Finally, someone gives the pig its’ due.
A spicy homemade rub and 5 hours (+ one hour rest) I had some delicious chicken.
Smoking meat is a redneck religion.
I’ve done similar in a 3 gallon pot on the stove. Bottle of BBQ sauce and a quart of apple vinegar. Low and slow for 3 hours then onto the grill to finish.
sounds tasty!!! I would have offered straws just for the residual juices and sauce in the crock pot!
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