Direct Heat Pork Steak

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Barbacoa: The Heart of Tex-Mex Barbecue

By Brandon Hurtado

Published 2025

  • About

The best pork steak I ever had came from a weekend getaway at Snow’s BBQ in Lexington, Texas. Ms. Tootsie Tomanetz, the legendary female pitmaster at Snow’s, uses an incredible approach to cooking pork steaks that starts with direct heat over hot coals, and lots of homemade mop sauce. The perfect pork steak should be tender like a rib eye and have lots of smoke flavor and a hint of sweet and tangy from the mop sauce or spritz. Using a bone-in pork shoulder presents the most flavor, but if y