Two rubbed pork butts an hour into the smoke

2024-03

Two rubbed pork butts an hour into the smoke, 2024 — photograph by Ray Patrick

Food

Subject

Two pork butts side by side on the grate of a black kettle smoker, their rub still dry and pale gold, the crust only beginning to darken at the high points. An hour in and twelve days in brine, with the garden and a blue tarp out of focus behind them.

From the artist:

Brined for 12 days Pork butt, smoke time 1 hr @dickmasterson it has begun