For the past few months, I’ve tested “The Sauce” with various recipes, including creating a few recipes. I knew the ultimate test would be using “The Sauce” with a pulled pork sandwich. In my region, “It’s All About the Pig” when it comes to barbecue, and Chopped Barbecue sandwiches reign. Typically, this “sandwich of love” consists of smoked pork shoulder or Boston Butt, the meatier portion of the shoulder, chopped into small pieces, piled high onto a hamburger bun, and topped off with slaw and sauce. Each pit boss has a different view on how to prepare their pork, and there’s a myriad of sandwich possibilities. With slaw or without, mayonnaise-based, vinegar-based, or “red” slaw, with or without sauce. And the sauce…. There’s tomato-based, vinegar-based, mustard-based, and even mayonnaise-based sauce. Every now and then, you find a locale that changes it up….they exchange the slaw for pickles, use a different bun type, or even use a different protein. In most cases, you see the same sandwich type.
So… I took a Boston Butt and “poured on the love”. I injected it with love. I brushed it with love. I rubbed it with love. What is love, you ask? Love is flavor. I loved the Butt, then I put it to bed.
The next day, I woke up the Butt and put it to work in the smoker. Now, the Butt didn’t go directly into the smoker; that’s too extreme. Since it spent overnight in the refrigerator, we had to slowly warm it up before placing it in the smoker. Plus, I sneak more love in with the smoker. How? Well, that’s one of my secrets. Fellow pit bosses know how, we just have different opinions on how to do it.
So, on a cold, wet, and dreary day I tended to my Butt. I added more fuel to the fire. I mopped it with more love. I took its temperature, and just when it hit its optimum temperature I removed the Butt from the smoker and onto a platter where it was laid to rest under an aluminum foil blanket. 
After it fully rested, I gently opened its foil wrapping to find a bundle of goodness on that platter. With surgical precision, I used two forks to transform the Butt into my main ingredient for The Ultimate Pulled Pork Sandwich. I didn’t need anything other than two forks because the meat just fell apart in my hands….exactly what I wanted. Once the meat was fully shredded, I began to build my ultimate sandwich. Open the bun and place the bottom layer on a plate. Construct a mound of pulled pork so that it sits high on the bun, but does not fall out of the sandwich. Drizzle just enough sauce onto the mound to add more love. Top it off with a covering of slaw and the bun lid. Man, that was good….
