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Mangalitsa Butt Roast

Mangalitsa Butt Roast

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Pasture-Raised Mangalitsa · Shoulder
Four pounds of shoulder that bastes itself.
The butt is the top of the shoulder — the muscle that works hardest, so it carries the most connective tissue. On a Mangalitsa it carries the most fat too. Cook it long enough and both turn into the same thing.
4
Pounds, average
195–205°F
Pull temperature
8–10
Hours, low and slow
What makes it different
Butt is not the back end.
It is the upper shoulder. The name comes from the barrels these were once packed in, not from the animal.
Collagen, not tenderness,
is what you are cooking for here. It does not break down until around 195°F — fifty degrees past what most people call done.
Mangalitsa fat
renders softer and at a lower temperature than commodity pork fat, so it bastes the roast from the inside while the collagen does its work.
This is the one cut you cannot rush and cannot ruin. If it is tough, it is not done yet. Give it another hour.
From the farm
If your roast came with a fat cap, score it and leave it on. It renders down over the meat as it cooks, and trimming it off is the one thing we would ask you not to do.
How to cook it
01
Salt it the night before. Score any fat cap in a diamond pattern, salt it all over, and leave it uncovered in the fridge.
02
250°F, fat side up. Smoker or oven, both work. Eight to ten hours is normal for a four-pound roast.
03
Push through the stall. It will sit at 160°F for hours and look stuck. That is moisture evaporating. Wait it out, or wrap it in foil to move it along.
04
Pull at 195–205°F. A probe should slide in with no resistance at all. Rest it a full hour before you shred it.
What you're getting
One roast — about 4 lb
Upper shoulder, whole — the pulled-pork cut
Pasture-raised Mangalitsa — no antibiotics, no added hormones
Raised in Monticello, Kentucky — USDA inspected. We raise it, cut it and pack it ourselves.
Who vouches for us
Homegrown By Heroes
Homegrown By Heroes
Farmer veteran certified
Weston A. Price Foundation
Weston A. Price
Wise Traditions listed
Kentucky Proud
Kentucky Proud
KY Dept. of Agriculture
Appalachia Proud
Appalachia Proud
Mountains to Market
USDA inspected · Processed at USDA-inspected facilities in Science Hill, Kentucky and Walling, Tennessee

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