Pork Shoulder treatment

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Pork Shoulder treatment

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I have a pork shoulder, skin on and bone in. Plan is to L&S it for some succulent pulled pork tomorrow on the DB.
I plan on removing skin & leaving bone in. Question is how much fat is best to trim off?
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I like to leave a lot on, to me, it is flavor as it cooks, granted it is not going to penetrate the inner meat a great deal, but the stuff that does not render is like Jell-O and slides off with a knife so easy, I figure why cut all that good flavor off early! Just make sure it is entirely over the grease tray, none in the gaps and make sure your grease bucket is empty!

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I will be using the GMG DB, I have the fruitwood pellets. Grease bucket is empty and lined.
Will have a big foil tray under the meat. Will leave the fat on, I was thinking along those lines of fat = flavour.
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And you can use the dripping to make biscuits, not even lard beats pig fat for true Southern Flakey Biscuits!
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Bentley wrote:And you can use the dripping to make biscuits, not even lard beats pig fat for true Southern Flakey Biscuits!
Dat Tru!

And for the uninitiated the Biscuits Bentley refers to are Scones

I know it's off topic but: Here is the best recipe I've come across for Southern Buttermilk Biscuits, the technique described here is spot on:

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http://www.cookingforengineers.com/reci ... k-Biscuits

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Alright, educate me and show me a picture of an Australian "biscuit"...Cus you can call the ones above anything you want, but Shoot, they look like some Fine Biscuits to me!
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Bentley wrote:Alright, educate me and show me a picture of an Australian "biscuit"...Cus you can call the ones above anything you want, but Shoot, they look like some Fine Biscuits to me!
Bentley wrote:Alright, educate me and show me a picture of an Australian "biscuit"...Cus you can call the ones above anything you want, but Shoot, they look like some Fine Biscuits to me!
OK, that pic is American "Southern" Biscuits.

These are what we call Scones (fruit ones, but you get the idea) not as flakey as the "Southern Biscuit"

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The English Lardy Cake would be closer, but it is usually baked larger as a "cake" or "loaf".

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What you have in the US as a cookie or cracker, we call Sweet Biscuit (cookie) or Dry biscuit (cracker).

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.....and let's not go near conserve, jam, jelly, and jello! :D
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..and definitely not a fanny or thong.
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Or brisket and spare ribs!
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tried biscuits and gravy whilst in USA a month ago.. honestly i could not get into this flavour...
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Had biscuits a few times in the US at fried chicken joints and such. I dig a good buttery biscuit but can't get into that white gravy they usually come with.
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Biscuits with Sausage Sawmill gravy with lots of pepper, cant be beat!

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skuzy wrote:tried biscuits and gravy whilst in USA a month ago.. honestly i could not get into this flavour...
Bentley wrote:Biscuits with Sausage Sawmill gravy with lots of pepper, cant be beat!

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Happy to hear skuzy and burb's opinion, sorry Bentley, but I have tried to like sawmill gravy but I think it is something you have to grow up with.
It's just never going to happen, no idea how you guys can stand it.
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Could be, I dispise Lamb, so I understand completely! You may not like the gravy, but I think you would like my biscuits with a bunch of butter & marmalade...or maybe clover honey!
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