CONGRATS TO:

[DATsBBQ]

The winner of the Memorial Day 2012 Throw Down is:



BOOTS

Boots wins MVP bragging rights till the next Throw Down and a custom Avatar. Bully for Boots

[Gator]

Wooooooooo Hoooooooo -> way to go boots!

congrats everyone, great job all around + special thanks to Deputy Dats for hosting the Throw Down!

[tex_toby]

Congrats, Boots! That was one fine looking specimen! If you don't mind me asking, where did you get your meat? Did your butcher cut it for you? I'd love to give it a go!

tex

[Boots]

Thanks you guys, I'm tickled to death. I felt compelled to really try hard and bring the A game, Limey has set the bar so high for the rest of us.

Tex, the meat came from Market Street, pretty much every week they have a pre-Frenched pork loin sitting in the meat case and when I was walking by this one - you guessed it - "spoke" to me, said "Boots you old broken down lousy pig smoker, pick me, pick me!!". So I did. I think most decent butchers can French one for you so you don't have to.

Marinated it two days in a mix of good lager beer, some hard apple cider, and a lemon/pepper type rub, then smoked that puppy 7 hours at about 200-210. About an hour and a half before finish (I lost track, that was about a 3 or 4 beer cook), I glazed it with a pineapple/jalapeno/chipotle glaze I concocted, and then again with about an hour to go (sprinkling around some coarse black pepper too), and then poured the smoke to the critter real real hard.

THAG LIKED!!

Hat tip to all the other contestants who cooked some really pretty stuff that I would really like to come to your house and eat (what time? I can bring beer.). Old Yoda (#5) promised me one of his ribs, so I get a bonus prize.

[ChileFarmer]

Congratulations to Boots, you did good. CF

[Papa Tom]

Kudos to ya boots some really good looking loin there.
Kudos to the rest of the challengers as well they all looked like a dieters nightmare.....manna to me....

[BluDawg]

Way to git 'er done Boots!

[CliffCarter]

Congrats to you, Boots, fine looking pork.

[egghead]

Outstanding looking hunk of pig there Boots - and a talking one as well

[Rich777]

Congrats Boots! Awesome smoke.

[limey]

Congrats Boots, my hats off to ya. Great looking pork roast brutha.
Also big kudos to the other throwdown entries,

[Boots]

Thanks Limey, great compliment coming from the Zen master.

Egghead I'll trade you some pork some time for some of those salt rock scallops of yours.

[HarvestMoon]

Boots, congrats!

[Txdragon]

Wow.. I'm almost glad I didn't enter, no way I could have competed with that pork loin If I ever produced anything like that, i'd have to run everybody away from it.. DON'T EAT IT, JUST LOOK AT IT!!! Hahaha!! Awesome work there buddy!

[Americana Cookers]

Congrats Boots!! Great looking meal!!