Pork Butt/Picnic Ham 8/8/15

[jmcrig]

Had an extra boneless pork butt and decided to make a ham. Simple brown sugar cure for 2 weeks. Out of the cure and hung overnite. Then rubbed with honey and a mixture of California ham spices & sweet heat. Cold smoked for 36hrs with a mixture of hickory, apple, and cherry. Then applied 160 degrees of heat for about 24hrs to internal of 155.


Out of the cure


All rubbed and into the smoker


Out of the smoker and resting


First slice


Time to eat

[bsooner75]

Very nice


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[Gator]

Oh man, that looks great!

[jmcrig]

Don't see myself ever buying a store bought ham again.

[Okie Sawbones]

Terrific. We start on our smokehouse pretty soon.

[OldUsedParts]

the only way to improve on that is to slice me off a chuck so I can capture it betweenn two pieces of bread - - - - nice nice nice

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[Finatic]

Wow that looks amazing! Very nice!

[riseabove50]

you sir are an artist. not like someone who teaches a community college course to freshman (no offense to any that might do that for a living) - i mean like Rembrandt!

[ChileFarmer]

Mark , really nice. Dang that is a pretty piece of meat. Wet or dry cure? How did you do a cold smoke with the ambient temp being 110°. I have been smoking with no fire. LOL. CF

[jmcrig]

Mark , really nice. Dang that is a pretty piece of meat. Wet or dry cure? How did you do a cold smoke with the ambient temp being 110°. I have been smoking with no fire. LOL. CF

It was a simple wet brine. It was a cold type smoke, that's why I included the ambient. Caught a couple of days with the temps in the low 100's. And my Backwoods has convection which helps to keep heat from building up in the chamber. And I put the Amaze tube in the bottom fire box. Have also put a pan of ice in the smoke chamber.

[ChileFarmer]

With a finished product like that, I never doubted that you had everything under control. I love the glaze. CF

[jmcrig]

It was just honey, and then dusted with Obie-Que Sweet N' Heat 3 to 2 of California Ham Spice.

[Williep]

That look's great !!!

[tex_toby]

Boy, I sure would like a taste of that. Looks great!

[Okie Sawbones]

jmcrig is my hero. I hope to make sausage like this gentleman!