Pork Butt preheat

[Tony Goedde]

When smoking a large pork butt do you all preheat the egg to a grill cleaning 700+ degrees then, brown and drop the heat or heat up just to the preferred temp and smoke from there without browning?

[SnoqualmieSmoker]

225. open lid insert pork. 225 until the pork is 190-ish.

[Paul]

I do a 3 day pork butt, at least that is the title of the recipe but mine takes 4 days. I don't brown the butt and after 23-24 hours of cooking at 200F with mopping the last 1-2 hours it has a wonderful bark. Other than taking forever, I wouldn't change a thing. So no, the way I've done my butt no browning is needed.