This is for you backyard bbq folk that want an easier & faster way to cook a pork butt.

I HIGHLY recommend you up your backyard bbq space with a Pit Barrel Cooker (PBC) - link is HERE.

This is a super easy way of smoking meat that will make for the best BBQ you ever had - guaranteed! You can even grill with it as I have many times = a grill and smoker all in one. The PBC’s design is one that makes smoking meat easy for you to intuitively move from your Weber grill to this so that you expand your grilling skills. 

I took an 8lb pork butt and cut it in half and worked my knife around a bit of the shoulder bone - easy to do. 

Once I cut it in half - I  put some rub on it and you can find that HERE on Amazon. 

If you watch videos of guys putting rub on their ribs, butt’s and other protein - they are liberal with it and coat it so you can hardly see the meat - I do NOT do this as I want this to accent the protein and have smoke flavor the...

Embrace The Flame BBQ welcomes you to the first blog for backyard grilling/smoking enthusiasts that have a passion for great food. 

This first blog was created April 4, 2020 as the Coronavirus is spread around the globe most people are confined to their homes. Most of us that like to BBQ are looking for ideas to grill and smoke some food and I wanted to share a cook I did that came out really good. 

If you have time - take this and make it your own. 

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Today’s cook is done on thePit Barrel Cooker (PBC) - this is a smoker that can also grill. I wanted this to be my first smoker to learn the basics of smoking meat with and also have the flexibility to do a variety of different things including grilling. 

I filled the charcoal basket with lump coals and got the chimney going for about 13 minutes and dumped the lump into...