I love black fatty butts

Here we are with one shoulder and trimmings from another 3. Working a 2 zone kettle I can get 3 trimmed shoulders vertical and not much else. I commented about how I was going to do 40 lbs. I’m an idiot. This is maybe 12. You lose 50% of your weight to water loss. I was buying 12 lb shoulders and not coming out with much. The prep sucks. Will not do less than 20 a cook. Somehow my brain made that 40.

When you like your butts black. This gets them dark and keeps them juicy. Just pull um off the grill, let em rest, and bury your face between those meaty globes of black fatty goodness. Lick, suck, motorboat, slurp. This is your time. Get all that juicy goodness.

35 lbs of shoulder. The three largest will go on tomorrow. Been a min so I’m test cooking tonight.

Costco cuts out their shoulders, leaving me with a choice. I decided to trim down my butts to really pull out the fat, also I need a firm butt in the kettle to keep them upright.

We score em for more crust.

Basic two zone with slow n sear and an additional water tray. Direct cooking would be grilling. It’s mostly infrared that’s getting to your meat. You hear me? Great for making the outside crunch. This is a low combustion (low light) high heat cook technique that is the defining characteristic of grilling.

Now for indirect? I put it on the other side and that’s bbq. I’m creating an oxygen free chamber where I bake IE use convection to cook my butts. But what about my color? The gasses will take care of that. Good briquettes can run a nice blue smoke on their own.

Just that corner will run hot. I don’t know your unit but mine sucks air like… something that sucks in a lot or air. My goal is to close all vents but the exhaust and keep it here. Might hit 350 but the back therm will read 250. Just right. Anything hotter than this on my unit and I’m not bbq low and slow. I’m baking.

Here we have a 4 gallon pot, maybe 3, making liquid gold bone broth. I save bones for a year then cook em down. Gross? I’m only serving this to me. You’d do it too if you saw the cost of bones. Jesus Christ am I some sort of bone merchant rich with money for bones? Am I a skeleton? No bone butchers. I am not.