I tend to celebrate my culinary successes when I write about them here. However, some wise monk-type once stated that you learn more from failure than success. I did happen to learn something from a recent endeavor with my pulled pork.
The two major changes were:
- Cooking the pork longer since I didn't enjoy the thicker consistency when I had cook it the last two times
- Doubling the amount of red wine vinegar since I had a larger piece of meat. Well, it was a 60% increase. Dumb move really. I saw that it was two high against the meat, yet I still cooked it anyway.
Danielle's face scrunched up upon tasty the tender-vinegar laden meat. My wife was polite enough to not spit out the food. Draining the liquid, adding barbeque sauce, slow cooking that; unfortunately there was not a perfect taste saving on this.
Danielle and I ate some of the meat before freezing the rest and promptly ignoring it. This was about a month ago.
I talk about this now as I am making pulled pork for Nerd Day II. You want to know if your meat holds up well? Feed it to hungry gamers. At least I learned something in here: mess something up, try it again; if I mess it up a second time, I quit.
Wayne
*Since it was a wise monk-type I'm not sure how much stock one should take in the particular statement
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