Heat your smoker to between 225°F to 250°F and place the pork butt on the smoker, fat-cap side up. Now let the smoker do the hard work. Cooking a pork butt on a smoker happens in two stages.

Additionally, pork butt is typically sold with a fat cap, a thicker layer of fat covering the broad side of the cut. You can get pork butt with or without the bone in it, but if you're going to ...