Mastering Pig Butchering: Your Complete Guide to Pork Cuts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nWrapping It Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There you have it – a clear answer to whether you should place the pork butt fat side up or down in the smoker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that you know what to do make sure to follow my directions each and every time. This will guarantee that you end up with smoked pork butt that is tender, succulent, and cooked to perfection every time that you prepare it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You should place the fat cap towards the direction of the heat source. That way, the fat cap acts as an insulating barrier that protects that pork butt from getting burned. I have been smoking meat for as long as I can remember, but it was only as an adult that I learned about whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19476,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/19476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}