I'm going to smoke a pork shoulder roast for Memorial day. What do you think the best way to prepare it would be: inject it, use a rub on it, or brine it overnight? I've smoked about 44 steelhead fillets, but this is the first slab-o-pig I've cooked in the smoker. I take the steelhead to work, and it's like a pack of piranha descending on it - nothing but skin left - but pig ain't fish.

Beez

Thanks

I've been really getting into the brines for smoking, but I think the pork Butt didn't come out as well as say a turkey or fish. There's enough fat in the shoulder that you don't need to brine. I'm also not big on injecting meat, but that's a personal thing. A good rub will be fine IMO.

Can't go wrong with Mr. Brown.......

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/pork2.html 

brine will do very little to a butt, due to its fat content.

Ah yes Mr Brown. Great results. I use his mop in a spray bottle but I add a little dark rum or bourbon.

All this smoke talk is making me hungry again and I just grilled and inhaled a steak.

Mr. Brown is awsome.... I rarely do it anymore though...

I just slather the butt with mustard and put whatever rub I am craving on it. Works every time. Somewhere around here I have a recipe for a cuban rub that is outstanding.

Beez,

Where you located?

Steelhead fishing is big here...

Big Chief: I'm in South East Idaho. I volunteer with Fish and Game at the Pahsimeroi fish hatchery just off the Salmon River. That's how I bring home 40 for a day when the limit is 3 per day and 20 for the season.

Beez

#6.......I have deviated from the original "Mr. Brown" as well, but it is a great starting point.

Beez,

I'm at Cal-Ore border. Rogue, Chetco, Smith, Klamath rivers all hour or less away.

The fish you get have been bled for roe?

^Yes, they have. The two days I was there this year, we spawned about 180 fish. F&G spawns 20 days during the season at that particular hatchery. We got around 8000 steelhead through there this year and usually get around 3000 salmon a year coming through. Salmon numbers have been coming up the last few years. Considering it's 860 miles to the ocean from there, that's not too bad.

Beez