This is exceptionally weird for me to post this and I'm not trolling or joking around.
I smoked my first Pork Butt (aka shoulder). I got the twin pack from Costco (7 lbs each)
I put them on at 8 am wrapped at 5:00 pm at 165F with my RT set to 225.
Took them out at 205 IT, put it in a cooler for an hour and half.
I took them out of the cooler and when I cut into them I was expecting a great bbq smell that everyone talks about in the youtube videos ... but all i could smell was the smell of well... Diarrhea. It smelled like Diarrhea when I cut the shoulder in half for a picture of the smoke ring etc... It didn't smell pleasant at all but it somewhat went away when I started to pull the meat apart\ shredding it.
Being new to cooking in general, and this being my first Pork Butt\ shoulder I didn't have a baseline of what it should smell like, so i figured it was normal.
We did eat it, and everyone said how great it tasted. It did taste okay, and didn't have a weird taste or anything like that- only the initial smell when ripping it apart.
The meat was always cold from the minute I bought it until It went on the smoker. The sell date is 12/26.
It didn't have a bad smell when it was raw or when I opened the vacuum sealed package.
I've tried researching it and found articles about "Boar Taint" and nitrogen in vacuum sealed bags and all but again, It didnt smell bad at all when I opened it up- only when shredding it.
Any insight? Ironically, I avoided smoking a Pork Butt for the last year because I thought it really was a Pork's Butt until I saw a youtube video that mentioned it was actually the shoulder. Ironically, I get the smell I envisioned it would be if it was a porks butt.
I smoked my first Pork Butt (aka shoulder). I got the twin pack from Costco (7 lbs each)
I put them on at 8 am wrapped at 5:00 pm at 165F with my RT set to 225.
Took them out at 205 IT, put it in a cooler for an hour and half.
I took them out of the cooler and when I cut into them I was expecting a great bbq smell that everyone talks about in the youtube videos ... but all i could smell was the smell of well... Diarrhea. It smelled like Diarrhea when I cut the shoulder in half for a picture of the smoke ring etc... It didn't smell pleasant at all but it somewhat went away when I started to pull the meat apart\ shredding it.
Being new to cooking in general, and this being my first Pork Butt\ shoulder I didn't have a baseline of what it should smell like, so i figured it was normal.
We did eat it, and everyone said how great it tasted. It did taste okay, and didn't have a weird taste or anything like that- only the initial smell when ripping it apart.
The meat was always cold from the minute I bought it until It went on the smoker. The sell date is 12/26.
It didn't have a bad smell when it was raw or when I opened the vacuum sealed package.
I've tried researching it and found articles about "Boar Taint" and nitrogen in vacuum sealed bags and all but again, It didnt smell bad at all when I opened it up- only when shredding it.
Any insight? Ironically, I avoided smoking a Pork Butt for the last year because I thought it really was a Pork's Butt until I saw a youtube video that mentioned it was actually the shoulder. Ironically, I get the smell I envisioned it would be if it was a porks butt.