This years 4th was fun. We didn't go to Heber this year, or get out of the heat, but it was still a fun holiday. On Saturday we decided to smoke the 25lb pork shoulder and have the family for dinner to celebrate the 4th. John was up at 4:30, and had the pork in his new smoker by 5am. He was up ad down every 20 minutes checking the temperature on the smoker. By noon he had an understanding on how to control the heat in the smoker and instead of every 20 minutes he was up every 40 minutes or so to add more wood, and charcol.
Saturday was so hot! The theometer here at the houe was reading 117! The family was supposed to be here at 5 for the bbq, and at 4 O'clock I looked at the thermostat and it wa reading 78 in the house, and John had set to 75 since he was running in and out all day. I reset everything, and turned the AC back on, but the temp was not dropping, instead of was getting hotter! We called stopped the family from driving out. We decided to pack up and go to Crystal's for the night. When we left it was 83 in the house.
The pork was fabulous! It was perfectly smokey, and tender! John did a wonderful with it! I felt bad that it was such a hot process! Hot inside and out, all day! That makes for a long day!
Our landlord got the air fixed Sunday morning. I was grateful that Crystal and Spencer had a place for us sleep and that we didn't have to go find a hotel for the night!
2 comments:
YUMMY the pork sounded like it was awesome! The broken AC sucks, glad you were able to get it fix ASAP. Sleep overs are always fun!!
It was the best pork! John did an awesome job. It was nice having you guys spend the night, Miss Izzy, had a blast. Then we turned around and did it again 2 days later on the 4th! All of that food and celebrating, hasn't been so kind on my waist line.... got to get back on program.
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