Amazing Pulled Pork

A shoulder, a rub, and enough patience to leave it alone.

⏱ 8 hr · easy · 🍽 serves 4

Ingredients

• 5 lb pork shoulder, bone in
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tbsp kosher salt
• 1 tbsp smoked paprika
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 2 tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp cayenne
• 1 cup cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire

Steps

1. Mix the sugar, salt, paprika, garlic powder, pepper and cayenne. Rub it over the whole shoulder and refrigerate overnight if you can.
2. Heat the oven to 300F. Put the pork fat side up in a Dutch oven with the vinegar, stock and Worcestershire.
3. Cover and cook 6-7 hours, until the bone slides out clean when you twist it.
4. Rest 30 minutes in the pot, then pull the meat apart with two forks, discarding large pieces of fat.
5. Skim the fat from the cooking liquid and toss the pulled meat with enough of it to keep it wet.