https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-oven-pulled-pork-recipe
In Kenji's oven-braised pulled pork, you add half of the BBQ sauce before the braise. After a five hour braise, you transfer pork to a large bowl, reserving liquid in pot. Then skim off the fat, add remaining bbq sauce and a little vinegar, and then shred the pork and fold it into the sauce. Kenji recommends keeping the pork and sauce separate if you're serving the whole batch.
When my pork was done, I took the pork out of the dutch oven and when it cooled, I wrapped it in foil and threw it in the fridge. Then I put the braising liquid through a sieve to remove the solids. I refrigerated the liquid over night and this morning removed the half-inch solidified fat that covered the gelatinous mass of braising liquid.
My plan is to cut the pork into portions, vacuum seal them and put them in the freezer. For dinner tonight, I'll warm up the remaining pork for an hour at 275º. I'll take a portion of the braising liquid, heat it up and add some of the bbq sauce. When the pork is warm, I'll shred it and add the sauce mix.
Questions: Am I missing anything I could do to keep the pork moist? Is there anything else I could do with the braising sauce and bbq sauce mix to improve the dish?
Thanks in advance!
by jasonabaum
4 Comments
why would you be missing anything?
If you want to be sure it stays moist, you could vacuum seal and reheat with a sous vide (even after shredding). It’s what I do for smoked pulled pork. Comes out good as new every time.
Just warm up some liquid and add the cold pork to it to reheat. I don’t see any reason to re-warm the pork in an oven. Pulled pork should be very forgiving.
Your serving method is basically how I reheat my smoked pulled pork. I finish it in the oven after smoking for hours in a hotel pan and cover with foil till it gets to temp. Then I shred it and put it in Ziploc bags with any juice/fat that comes with it. I then pour the remaining liquids in a jar.
Overnight in the fridge the fat will come to the top. When I reheat, I usually put it in a big crockpot or tray if necessary and judge how much fat was in the Ziploc bags. Then use the fat or liquid from the jar as needed. Any leftover juice or fat from the jar you can use for something like fried, etc