Pulled pork help

FiremanVinny said:

I'm having a party at my house for our baby announcement/gender reveal this Sunday. We are having around 50 people. About 35 adults and 15 teens/kids. We are having pulled pork sliders with a bunch of sides.

2 questions

1. How much uncooked pork shoulder should I buy?

2. I ran out of my SM sweet seduction (lock me up I know). There's no way I can get some before Sunday so how should I season all this pork?

Any and all help is appreciated
Vinny

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What are you smoking with?

There are a lot of ways to go about it, but Chris Lily's recipe comes to mind right away - you can make it with stuff you probably already have and it's quite good. If you do the injection recipe I'd cut the salt in half (for the injection).

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/m...ime-world-championship-pork-shoulder-52415241

As to amounts - since some are teens, I'd figure them as balancing out smaller kids in how much they'd eat, so for 50 folks at 4 servings per pound you'd need around 12-13 # cooked. I always figure 50# loss to be safe, so you'd start with around 25# raw. If you're more inclined to 3 servings per cooked pound then you'd start with approx. 32# raw. Depends on what kind of eaters you're expecting, but somewhere in that range should be good.

Butts loose 50% I always figure 1 lb raw per eater

Congrats on the baby btw!

i use this....and a couple spoonfuls of apple jam the last hour on top which gets mixed in during the pull

worcestershire slather...then

rub recipe:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup paprika
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon chili powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 teaspoon cayenne

everyone says its the best they have eaten