Pork Butt decription

[All Weather Griller]

More like a 5-6 kilo brisket I would say. That's what mine average although I have 8-10 kilo briskies.

[Zippy]

As I have said in other threads, the conversations I have had with butchers trying to get hold of a decent pork butt have ranged from the hilarious to the rage inducing.

I'm not even sure if it varies from region to region as much as it just varies from butcher to butcher.

My advice to people is take in descriptions and pictures. The better and more experienced butchers will know, from looking at a pic of an uncooked boston butt, roughly what it is you're asking for.

For my tuppence worth, a butcher I have been recently using wrote down his own "description" for me after I took him pictures etc, in terms that he felt he and his staff would understand for whenever I need to pop in and order again. It reads as follows:

"Boneless whole shoulder of pork x shank [excluding the shank] with scapula blade bone left in".