Blues Hog Tennessee Red Pork Slather

It sure is strange that in this day and age you can have friends whom you’ve never met. I participate in a couple of Web communities: DodgeTalk.com & BBQ-Brethren.com. I have friends across North America and the UK, most I’ve never met. Tom from Utah is one of those folks. One of our common bonds is that we own the same model of BBQ smoker: Traeger 075. Here is a composite of one of Tom’s most recent experiments on his Traeger 075 pellet smoker. The Blues Hog sauce used in this recipe was from a quart he purchased from me a few weeks ago.

Tom likes to use a mustard slather of yellow ballpark mustard and worchestershire sauce. The slather is applied to the pork butt or shoulder and then the rub. The slather helps bind the rub to the meat, adds moisture and flavor. This time Tom was inspired to use his new jar of Blues Hog Tennessee Red instead of the worchestershire sauce.

Meat: Bone in Pork Butt (Tom’s was a 9.5lb Butt)

Slather: 50/50 mix of Blues Hog Tennessee Red Sauce and Yellow Mustard

Rub: Blues Hog Rub or any will do (Tom used Klose Rib and Butt Rub)

After 10 hours, the butt looks good enough to eat. However, it is going to take a couple more hours before done. For pulled pork, 195 is an ideal internal temperature.

Tom said it turned out as one of the best butts he’s done. Reported the taste was surprisingly more to the sweet side than the tangy as would be expected from the tangy, vinegar based Blues Hog Tennessee Red sauce. He praised the convection style of the Traeger 075, as well. Smoking in Utah’s December climate means more fuel and more temp fluctuations in the pit. Tom’s Big Green Egg would have been an easier cook but with a different flavor and product in the end.

I’ll be using Tom’s Blues Hog Tennessee Red & mustard slather this week for a couple of butts that are needed for a couple of office parties I’m catering. A bit of Blues Hog sauce to top on a sandwich sounds great. I think any of the three sauces would work great: Original, Tennessee Red, or Honey Mustard. Plowboys BBQ is a seller of Blues Hog products. Blues Hog is a sponsor of the Pork Pullin Plowboys competition BBQ team.