Water Smoker Smoked Pork Picnic Roast Food

HOW TO COOK A PICNIC HAM - SMOKED PORK SHOULDER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Place picnic ham on a large roasting pan or baking dish, fat side up. Pour 3/4 cup of water into the bottom of the baking dish.
• Cover roasting pan with foil and bake in the oven for 1 hour. This allows the rind to be removed easily.
• Remove the foil and peel the rind off the top of the fat cap. Cut cross check slits into the fat and about 1/2 inch into the meat of the ham.
• Puree remaining ingredients (oranges, brown sugar, vinegar, honey, mustard, cinnamon, salt and cayenne) in a blender to make the glaze. Brush some of the glaze all over the ham, making sure to get into the slits.
• Bake for another 2 hours, uncovered. Brush the glaze after 1 hour cooking time and then again about 30 minutes later. Bake the remaining 30 minutes.
• Once done cooking, the fat should be starting to crisp and the glaze nicely caramelized. Let the ham rest for about 5 minutes before carving.
• Carve the ham into nice sized serving slices. Serve with glazed carrots, potatoes, squash and more!

SMOKED PORK ROAST

Steps:

• 1. Mix the first 3 ingredients together till the brown sugar is completely dissolved.
• 2. Then add the green onion and mix again.
• 3. Pour this over the roast and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
• 4. Get your BBQ screaming hot.
• 5. Put a pan under where the roast will be and put some water in it. This will add some extra moistness to the roast. Then put the roast in a heat safe pan.
• 6. Smoke it { uncovered } but keep the top of the BBQ down unless you are adding charcoal or basting the pork, using the indirect cooking method, off to one side of the BBQ away from the direct heat.
• 7. Every 30 to 45 minutes check the coals { adding more as necessary } and spoon the marinade over the roast and give it ¼ turn.
• 8. After 2 hours of turning the basting the roast, flip it over. Let this go for 1 & ½ hours turning it a ¼ turn each time and continue to baste it.
• 9. The final cooking time will consist of turning the roast back the way you started it, baste it one more time, poke holes in the pan with the roast and let the marinade drain out of the pan. Let the roast go for another 30 minutes. COOKING TIME WILL DEPEND ON THE SIZE OF THE ROAST AND HOW HOT YOUR BBQ IS.
• 10. Let the roast cool and now you have choices on what to do with it, you could make pulled pork sandwiches by making some BBQ sauce { or you can use you favorite store brand } get the sauce hot and shred the pork and add it to the sauce. Let this simmer for about 15 minutes.
• 11. Then get some really good bread and slice it. Load it up with the pulled pork and top it with homemade coleslaw! Or you could do a stir fry or add it to soup...let your imagination run wild!

WATER SMOKER SMOKED PORK PICNIC ROAST

Steps:

• Take 10 lb. Picnic roast and rinse well and pat dry.
• Mix wet marinade and allow to warm to room temp or sit out for a little while to gel the flavors.
• Remove Fat/skin from roast and refrigerate.
• In large lidded bowl, pour in marinade over roast.
• Due to low salt usage, marinade overnight or if you can't get to it, for several days - turning it as often as you can remember to do so. A little salt and some vinegar in the marinade will tenderize the meat a bit.
• Remove roast from fridge. Allow to warm up a bit for 2 hours on the countertop. Remove marinade and reserve. Inject marinade into pork at differing points. Hit roast with rub and wait 20 minutes or so. Lay reserved skin over roast and affix with toothpicks. Preheat oven to 210.
• Cook in oven @ 210, in a dutch oven with 2 layers of wax paper or parchment paper to seal it up, the lid on top of that, until internal temp is 160 degrees. 3 hours or so. Fire up some charcoal. Remove skin from fridge. Get ready to smoke --.
• Smoke at 195 - 220 until internal temp reaches 200 degrees - skin still laid over the top of the top of the roast - and use warmed, reserved marinade in the water bowl and top off with hot water if need be. Hold that temp on the roast for 1 - 2 hours to assure tenderness. Tenderness is a matter of preference, so you will have to guess on this the first time out.
• I like to use a variety of woods for the smoke, and one weird thing that my wife and kids can't stand, but definitely imparts some unusual kick. Over the course of the smoke, I throw four handfuls of dried hot peppers, whole, onto the fire! Makes everyone cry but me, as the white smoke billows out, but man does it add flavour for the bark.
• Rest for 20 minutes prior to slicing or what have you.
• Tip: Chill roast down to 38 degrees and use a slicer if you want thin slices for sandwiches.
• Use bones, and skin, salt and pepper and whatever else to slow simmer to make pork stock.