Smoked Pork Shoulder & Pulled Pork Recipes

Pork shoulder is the forgiving cook. Full of fat and connective tissue, it wants you to succeed. The recipes below cover the regional sauces and the one trick everyone gets wrong: the long rest.

Beginner-friendly 235° · 12h

Carolina Pulled Pork

Boston butt, mustard slather, vinegar mop. Eastern Carolina forever.

Intermediate 250° · 14h

Ghost Pepper Smoked Pork Shoulder Suplex

The ghost doesn't haunt you. It teaches you. Low and slow with bhut jolokia bark that'll rewire your pain threshold.