Carolina Chopped Pork Barbecue Sandwiches with Spicy Vinegar Sauce
- 4 cups apple cider vinegar
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 3 tablespoons (packed) golden brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons salt
- 1 tablespoon dried crushed red pepper
- 2 teaspoons black pepper
- 1 10-pound bag charcoal briquettes
- 6 cups (about) hickory-wood chips, soaked in cold water 30 minutes, drained
- 2 untrimmed boneless pork shoulder halves (Boston butt; about 7 pounds)
- 12 hamburger buns, split
- Combine first 8 ingredients in heavy large saucepan.
- Simmer over medium heat 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat, cover, and let stand 2 hours.
- Place handful of torn newspaper in bottom of charcoal chimney.
- Top with 30 charcoal briquettes.
- Remove top rack from grill.
- Place chimney on lower grill rack.
- Light newspaper; let charcoal burn until ash is gray, about 30 minutes.
- Open bottom grill vent.
- Turn hot charcoal onto 1/2 of bottom rack.
- Using metal spatula, spread charcoal to cover approximately 1/3 of rack.
- Fill 2 small foil loaf pans halfway with water and place next to charcoal on bottom rack.
- Sprinkle 1 cup chips over coals.
- Place top rack on grill.
- Arrange pork shoulder halves on top rack above loaf pans.
- Cover grill with lid, positioning top vent directly over pork.
- Place stem of meat thermometer in top vent with gauge on outside and tip near roast (thermometer should not touch meat or grill rack); leave in place during cooking.
- Use top and bottom vents to maintain temperature between 250F and 325F, opening vent wider to increase heat and closing to decrease heat.
- Leave other vents closed.
- Check temperature every 20 minutes.
- Cook pork 3 hours.
- About once an hour, light more charcoal in chimney set on bricks or cement to replenish charcoal in grill.
- Add 12 hot ash-tinged briquettes and 1 cup drained wood chips when cooking temperature drops below 250F.
- Using sharp knife, make several crosswise slashes in meat (do not cut through).
- Brush with some of sauce.
- Cover and continue cooking pork until meat thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 165F, about 2 1/2 hours longer, adding additional hot briquettes and chips as necessary to maintain temperature and basting occasionally with sauce.
- Transfer pork to cutting board; remove any tough rind.
- Chop meat into bite-size pieces.
- Transfer meat to large bowl and add enough sauce to moisten.
- Arrange bun bottoms on work surface.
- Top buns with pork; cover with tops.
- Serve, passing additional sauce.
apple cider vinegar, ketchup, worcestershire sauce, golden brown sugar, mustard, salt, red pepper, black pepper, briquettes, minutes, pork shoulder halves, buns
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/carolina-chopped-pork-barbecue-sandwiches-with-spicy-vinegar-sauce-108296 (may not work)