North Carolina Barbecue Pork

Name: North Carolina Barbecue Pork
Yield: Serves 8 to 10
Cuisine: Southern, American
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, kosher salt; 1 1/2 tablespoons, pepper; 1 (6-pound), bone-in pork butt roast, with ¼-inch fat cap; 1 , (13 by 9-inch) disposable aluminum pan; 4 (3-inch), wood chunks; 1 , recipe Lexington-Style Barbecue Sauce or Eastern North Carolina-Style Barbecue Sauce (see note)

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2020

SERVES8 to 10

TIME7¼ hours, plus 18 hours salting and 1½ hours resting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

When you’re talking barbecue in North Carolina, you’re talking pork. To create a North Carolina–inspired barbecue pork recipe on a charcoal grill, we used a grill setup called a charcoal snake. This C-shaped array of smoldering briquettes p...

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