Carolina Pulled Pork with Lexington Red Sauce

Ingredients

• 0.5 teaspoon pepper black freshly ground
• 5 pound boston butt pork shoulder bone-in (Boston butt)
• 1 teaspoon canola oil 
• 1 cup apple cider vinegar 
• 0.3 teaspoon pepper red crushed
• 2 teaspoons granulated sugar 
• 0.5 teaspoon ground pepper red
• 2 tablespoons pepper black
• 0.3 cup catsup 
• 2 tablespoons paprika 
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 1.5 teaspoons salt 
• 2 tablespoons sugar 
• 0.3 cup water 
• 2.3 cups water divided
• 4 pounds hickory wood chunks 

Equipment

• frying pan
• sauce pan
• oven
• knife
• baking pan
• grill
• kitchen thermometer
• aluminum foil
• ziploc bags

Directions

1. To prepare pork, soak wood chunks in water about 16 hours; drain.
2. Combine turbinado sugar and next 4 ingredients (through ground red pepper); reserve 2 tablespoons sugar mixture. Rub half of the remaining sugar mixture onto pork.
3. Place in a large zip-top plastic bag; seal and refrigerate pork overnight.
4. Remove pork from refrigerator; let stand at room temperature 30 minutes. Rub remaining half of sugar mixture onto pork.
5. Combine reserved 2 tablespoons sugar mixture, 1 cup vinegar, 1/4 cup water, 1 teaspoon salt, and oil in a small saucepan; cook over low heat 10 minutes or until sugar dissolves.
6. Remove grill rack; set aside. Prepare grill for indirect grilling, heating one side to medium-low and leaving one side with no heat. Maintain temperature at 22
7. Pierce bottom of a disposable aluminum foil pan several times with the tip of a knife.
8. Place pan on heated side of grill; add half of wood chunks to pan.
9. Place another disposable aluminum foil pan (do not pierce pan) on unheated side of grill.
10. Pour remaining 2 cups water in pan. Coat grill rack with cooking spray; place on grill.
11. Place pork on grill rack over foil pan on the unheated side. Close lid, and cook for 4 1/2 hours or until a thermometer registers 170, gently brushing pork with vinegar mixture every hour (avoid brushing off sugar mixture).
12. Add additional wood chunks halfway during cooking time. Discard any remaining vinegar mixture.
13. Preheat oven to 25
14. Remove pork from grill. Wrap pork in several layers of aluminum foil, and place in a baking pan.
15. Bake at 250 for 2 hours or until a thermometer registers 19
16. Remove from oven.
17. Let stand, still wrapped, for 1 hour or until pork easily pulls apart. Unwrap pork; trim and discard fat. Shred pork with 2 forks.
18. To prepare sauce, combine 1 cup vinegar and remaining ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook until reduced to 1 1/4 cups (about 5 minutes).
19. Serve sauce warm or at room temperature with pork.