I will say it straight: this is the best pulled pork I have ever eaten. It is rich and messy in the best possible way, and you will still be thinking about it the next day. Pile it on a bun with a slice of Swiss and a fistful of coleslaw, load it into tacos, drop it on nachos. It works every single time. And if you do not own a slow cooker, relax. This one bakes in a Dutch oven, and that is actually how I made it the first time.<\/p>\n
Most pulled pork recipes drown the meat in bottled barbecue sauce, or cola, or plain broth, and hope eight hours will fix it. Mine does the opposite. Italian tomatoes, garlic and onion get eight minutes in the pot, dark beer deglazes what stuck to the bottom, five minutes of simmering, then the whole thing gets blended smooth before the pork ever goes back in. The beer shows up twice: half a cup at the start, the rest in the reduction pan at the very end. That second pour is why the beer is still there when you taste it.<\/p>\n
I sear the pork now. Big chunks, olive oil, salt and pepper, ten to twelve minutes until it is browned all over. It is worth every minute.<\/p>\n
For the cooking itself, I have mostly stopped reaching for the slow cooker. Why wait eight hours when three and a half in a covered Dutch oven at 350\u00b0F pulls apart exactly the same? That said, the slow cooker version is written out in full below, low for eight hours, because sometimes you leave in the morning and you want dinner waiting for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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