Recipe: North Carolina-Style Pulled Pork

  1. Build a charcoal or gas grill for indirect cooking.
  2. Do not trim any excess fat off the meat; this fat will naturally baste the meat and keep it moist during the long cooking time. Brush pork with a thin coating of olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside on a clean tray until ready to cook.
  3. 3. Before placing the meat on the grill, add the soaked wood chips. Place the chips directly on gray-ashed briquettes or in the smoking box of your gas grill. If you are using a charcoal grill, you will need to add charcoal every hour to maintain the heat.
  4. 4. Place the pork in the center of the cooking grate, fat-side up, over indirect low heat. Cover and cook slowly for 4 to 5 hours at 325u0b0F to 350u0b0F, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the middle of the pork registers 190u0b0F to 200u0b0F. The meat should be very tender and falling apart. If there is a bone in the meat, it should come out smooth and clean with no meat clinging to it.
  5. 5. Let the meat rest for 20 minutes or until cool enough to handle. Using rubber kitchen gloves, pull the meat from the skin, bones, and fat. Set aside the crispy bits (fat) that have been rendered and look almost burned. Working quickly, shred the chunks of meat with 2 forks and "pulling" the meat into small pieces from the butt. Alternately, you can chop the meat with a cleaver. Chop the reserved crispy bits and mix into the pulled pork. While the meat is still warm, mix with enough Lexington-Style Vinegar Sauce to moisten and season the meat (about 3/4 cup).
  6. 6. Serve hot, sandwich-style on a hamburger bun and top with coleslaw. Serve more sauce on the side if desired.
  7. Mix all ingredients together in a large nonreactive bowl and let sit at least 10 minutes or almost indefinitely, covered in the refrigerator.
  8. Toss the sauce and cabbage together until well mixed and not quite wet. You may have sauce left-over. Refrigerate. Let sit for at least 2 hours or overnight before serving.

pork butt, olive oil, kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, hickory wood chips, lexington, north carolina, white hamburger, apple cider vinegar, ketchup, brown sugar, sugar, kosher salt, ground white pepper, red pepper, freshly ground black pepper, vinegar, head green cabbage

Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/09/north-carolinastyle-pulled-pork.html (may not work)

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