Tips for Smoking Pork: Shoulders, Butts, and Picnics

Pork shoulder is usually cut into two pieces, the butt and the picnic. The butt has a bone, whereas the picnic is boneless. I prefer the butt for making pulled Pork because the meat is of a higher quality and it does not have a thick skin on one side like the picnic does. Pork butt is sometimes cut into Pork steaks or into long, rib-like pieces called country-style ribs.