Substituting pork butt roast for pork shoulder?!


Question: I have a recipe that calls for a 3 pound pork shoulder, but pork shoulder is kind of expensive around here and pork butt roast has been on sale lately. Would it significantly change the dish to use the butt roast rather then the shoulder?
It is a slow cooker recipe and would cook for at least 10 hours on low and has a rather heavy sauce.


Answers: I have a recipe that calls for a 3 pound pork shoulder, but pork shoulder is kind of expensive around here and pork butt roast has been on sale lately. Would it significantly change the dish to use the butt roast rather then the shoulder?
It is a slow cooker recipe and would cook for at least 10 hours on low and has a rather heavy sauce.

I am a former chef and it my choice over the shoulder roast, it has more fat and the muscle structure is alot more dense, as for the slow cooker method, I still do a pan brown to sear it and if your going to cook it for length of time get the juice.sauce cooking and rop it to low and it will melt for you, to hard a cooking will make it stringy.

I have dome one with a cola/coffee based BBQ sauce and it was fantastic, makes a great main and a better sandwich the next day on a crusty roll.

yes it will be fine.

I would buy it...to me they taste the same.

They're almost the same, so what recipe works for one, would be the same for the other.

Your fine. Especially using the crock pot. A good long low cooking is great for cheaper cut. You wont notice a differance.





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