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Every chapter and letter on After Dark BBQ that turns on this, newest first.
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Skin On, All Night, Pulled by Hand — Smoked Pork Shoulder
Volume Two opens on County Road 9: a dead man’s pit, a daughter who came to sell it, and a whole skin-on pork shoulder at 250°F for fourteen hours. Read it
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She Wanted It Hand-Packed — Smoked Meatloaf
She finds the loaf pan and puts it straight back in the drawer. Free-form on a rack, bare on every side, and a glaze that goes on late. Read it
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Snap When You Bite It — Smoked Sausage
She hangs them in front of a fan for an hour before she will let him put wood on. Everything after that is in service of the half second when it snaps. Read it
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I Wrapped It and I Lost It — Butcher Paper vs Foil
Cody built seven hours of bark on two pork butts and lost it in two hours of foil. Paper breathes, foil steams, and the last half hour gets it back. Read it
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Big, Bare, and Nine Hours on the Bone — Smoked Beef Ribs
The biggest thing he has ever put on that grate, and he has never done one. Nine hours bare on the bone, an hour and a half of it holding out at 172, and a second chair in the yard. Read it
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Fat Side Up and Nobody Sleeps — Overnight Pork Butt
She promised the roadhouse forty pounds before she told him. Fat side up, a stall that parks at 158 and will not move for anybody, and two women in the yard with opinions about it. Read it
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Ease It In and Let It Rest — Overnight Smoked Brisket
She let herself in with a twelve-pack and two rubs and did not wait to be asked. Twelve hours, one long stall at 163, and she is gone before he gets it open. Read it