{"id":12146,"date":"2025-09-05T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/?p=12146"},"modified":"2025-09-12T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:34:06","slug":"cherry-wood-smoked-pulled-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/cherry-wood-smoked-pulled-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Wood Smoked Pulled Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none \" src=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-content\/gallery\/recipes\/CherryWoodSmokedPulledPork.jpg\" alt=\"Cherry Wood Smoked Pulled Pork\" \/><br><br \/>\n<a class=\"shop_ingred\" target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/shop.pricechopper.com\/store\/price-chopper-ny\/recipes\/8109430-cherry-wood-smoked-pulled-pork' rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shop Ingredients  <\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icoDL\" src=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-content\/images\/ico_Print.png\" alt=\"download\" title=\"Print Recipe\" onClick=\"window.print()\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/cherry-wood-smoked-pulled-pork\/emailpopup\/\" onclick=\"email_popup(this.href); return false;\"  title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/ico_email.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"recTitle\">Cherry Wood Smoked Pulled Pork<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\">Prep: 15 minutes plus standing<br \/>\nSmoke: 11 hours \u2022 Serves: 16<\/span> <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"recIngre\"><span>3 <\/span>tablespoons <strong>Florida Crystals\u00ae light brown sugar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1-1\/2 <\/span>tablespoons <strong>Florida Crystals\u00ae raw cane sugar<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>tablespoon ancho chili powder<br \/>\n<span>1\/2 <\/span>tablespoon Old Bay\u00ae seasoning<br \/>\n<span>2\t<\/span>teaspoons <strong>PICS Cajun seasoning<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>2\t<\/span>teaspoons ground mustard<br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>teaspoon <strong>PICS kosher salt<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>teaspoon <strong>PICS ground black pepper<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>bone-in Boston pork butt (about 8-1\/2 pounds)<br \/>\n<span>\t<\/span>Cherry wood smoking pellets<br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>cup <strong>Market 32 apple cider<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>cup tart cherry juice<br \/>\n<span>\t<\/span>Favorite <strong>PICS barbeque sauce<\/strong> for serving (optional)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>1.<\/span> Line rimmed baking pan with aluminum foil and wire rack. In medium bowl, stir sugars, chili powder, seasonings, ground mustard, salt and pepper; rub mixture over outside of pork. Place pork, fat side up, on prepared pan; let stand 30 minutes at room temperature or cover and refrigerate up to overnight.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>2.<\/span>Prepare outdoor pellet smoker for smoking over medium-low heat (about 250\u00b0); fill the hopper with pellets. Place pan with pork on hot smoker rack; cover and smoke 5 hours or until internal temperature of pork reaches 160\u00b0.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>3.<\/span>Increase smoker temperature to 300\u00b0. In large measuring cup, stir cider and cherry juice; pour half into clean spray bottle. Carefully pour the remaining cider mixture over pork and into baking pan; cover and smoke 6 hours or until internal temperature of pork reaches 195\u00b0 and pork is fork-tender, spritzing pork with cider mixture every 30 minutes.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>4.<\/span>Remove pan with pork from smoker; let stand 20 minutes. Transfer pork and any remaining liquid to large bowl. With 2 forks or tongs, shred pork and discard bones; stir in barbeque sauce, if desired. Makes about 14 cups pulled pork.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recNut\"><br \/>\nApproximate nutritional values per serving (7\/8 cup (about 6 ounces)):<br \/>\n405 Calories, 26g Fat (10g Saturated), 120mg Cholesterol, 313mg Sodium,<br \/>\n7g Carbohydrates, 0g Fiber, 7g Sugars, 3g Added Sugars, 32g Protein<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shop Ingredients &nbsp;&nbsp; Cherry Wood Smoked Pulled Pork Prep: 15 minutes plus standing Smoke: 11 hours \u2022 Serves: 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-dishes","category-recipes","tag-25fall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12285,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/12285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}