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Step 1
Take your Boston Butt out an hour before cooking it
Step 2
Fill your Big Green Egg with lump charcoal placing 3-4 hickory wood chunks in the charcoal
Step 3
Light your Big Green Egg lump charcoal and set temp to 250°
Step 4
Cross hatch the fat cap on the Boston Butt
Step 5
Apply mustard slather and then rub
Step 6
Once the Big Green Egg is stable at 250° and the smoke is clean, put your pork in
Step 7
Leave untouched for 3 hours
Step 8
Mix the mop ingredients together (Apple juice, Apple Cider Vinegar, hot sauce, and Worcestershire sauce)
Step 9
After 3 hours start spraying/mopping the sauce on the Boston Butt every hour for the next 5 hours
Step 10
At the 5 hour mark take your Boston Butt off and wrap in foil with a little mop applied to the Butt
Step 11
Putt back on the Big Green Egg, bump temperature to 275° and let cook another 2 hours
Step 12
When the meat is probe tender and measures 204° take the Boston Butt off the Big Green Egg
Step 13
Make a crack in the foil to let steam escape and Boston Butt to stop carryover cooking
Step 14
After 20-30 minutes, wrap the foil tight, place Boston Butts in cooler with a towel and let rest for an hour or two before pulling meat and serving