Pork butt vs Picnic for Flavor

[Fwismoker]

Only going to be 2 choices (ninja-son) and that's picnic or the butt. Yes there is more waste with the bones ...blah blah blah but this post is only about what makes the best flavor NOT yield etc... Let's here what you think.



I'm still munching on some pull from a picnic a few days ago and all I know is the next time I see picnics on sale I'm getting stocked up for 2 reasons.

1) IMO the flavor is flat out superior to butts

2) I now realize how good of a snack the skin makes

 

[RolandJT]

Picnic all the way IMHO.

Unless they're on sale it comes out to twice as expensive after waste, though according to the latest SAM's prices and my cooking results.

 

[Fwismoker]

Picnic all the way IMHO.

Unless they're on sale it comes out to twice as expensive after waste, though according to the latest SAM's prices and my cooking results.

Yea If I find a sale for sure I'm getting some but it's gotta be a good price. I just can't get over how much better the flavor is.

 

[SirPorkaLot]

Only going to be 2 choices (ninja-son) and that's picnic or the butt. Yes there is more waste with the bones ...blah blah blah but this post is only about what makes the best flavor NOT yield etc... Let's here what you think.



I'm still munching on some pull from a picnic a few days ago and all I know is the next time I see picnics on sale I'm getting stocked up for 2 reasons.

1) IMO the flavor is flat out superior to butts

2) I now realize how good of a snack the skin makes

You need a 3rd option.

Butt + Picnic makes for the best texture/flavor combo. This is what we cooked back home as a whole shoulder.

 

[Fwismoker]

You need a 3rd option.

Butt + Picnic makes for the best texture/flavor combo. This is what we cooked back home as a whole shoulder.

Nope, lol NO third option. :caked:

Sometimes it just can be an either-or

 

[SirPorkaLot]

But....butt....butt...

 

[smoke ninja]

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I too like the magical combination of the two.

Ok ill see myself out :bolt:

 

[Bigr314]

I cooked a picnic for the first time last month. I came to the same conclusion, my wife and kids like the picnic better.

 

[speed2486]

I did my first picnics a couple of weeks ago. We thought the flavor was better as well.

 

[Fwismoker]

I cooked a picnic for the first time last month. I came to the same conclusion, my wife and kids like the picnic better.

I did my first picnics a couple of weeks ago. We thought the flavor was better as well.

I'm exactly where y'all are at. Is it the flavor from the bones? IDK :noidea:

 

[speed2486]

I'm exactly where y'all are at. Is it the flavor from the bones? IDK :noidea:

I don't know where the flavor comes from either. I cooked skin on. I used a cheap box cutter to score through the skin in about 1" squares. The presentation factor was outstanding, but I was the only one to see it. The skin could have been crispy for me and I actually ended up pulling most of it out. Next time I'll try cranking the heat towards the end of the cook and see why happens.

 

[Big George's BBQ]

I prefer the Butt myself Maybe the next time I will try the shoulder

 

[Fwismoker]

I don't know where the flavor comes from either. I cooked skin on. I used a cheap box cutter to score through the skin in about 1" squares. The presentation factor was outstanding, but I was the only one to see it. The skin could have been crispy for me and I actually ended up pulling most of it out. Next time I'll try cranking the heat towards the end of the cook and see why happens.

I'm going to keep on removing the skin for a separate cook....WOW what a treat!


Also I wonder if some voting have never cooked a picnic IDK.

 

[Rusty Kettle]

Picnic roast has the best flavor. IMO it's just better. Also it was the first cut of meat I ever cooked bbq with so always My favorite.

 

[cheez59]

I have cooked several picnics when they were on sale. It is actually quite rare around here that the picnics go on sale enough to make up for the big bone waste. I really could not tell a huge difference in the flavor between them and the butts. I did skin all of them and cut the skin into narrow strips leaving a lot of fat on the strips. Then I fried up the strips and added Tony C's for some Cajun cracklins. In this regard I reckon the picnic had more flavor because the cracklins are awesome. For pulled meat though I'll stick with the butts.

 

[churrodog]

I like the flavor of the picnic more but the texture seemed to be a little more stringy on my couple of cooks. But since the poll is about flavor, it's definitely a little sweeter or something.

 

[Fwismoker]

I like the flavor of the picnic more but the texture seemed to be a little more stringy on my couple of cooks. But since the poll is about flavor, it's definitely a little sweeter or something.

Yes the muscle strands are longer on parts of it.

It's a hard to describe IMO...closest I could come up with is that it just has a richer deeper flavor.

 

[aawa]

I prefer the flavor of butts over picnics, but it isn't that far ahead.

I prefer the texture of picnics over butts.

Whenever cooking pulled pork, I try to do a butt and picnic (since whole shoulders are hard to find around here) to mix them together because that is the bee's knees.

 

[Learning to BBQ]

All I've ever had is picnics, never see any butts around here, or they are called something different. Saved the skin from the last one and made cracklins......Yummm!

 

[BB-Kuhn]

Picnic tends to be a bit more ham-my. I think the butt has more fat content, I prefer the flavor, and like that you generally get more bark on a butt than a picnic that is 1/2 covered with skin.

Butt all the way.