Sweet and Savory Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 176.

	this recipe	typical
liquid	29%	0%
fat	1%	0%
aromatics	0%	0%
acid	4%	0%
sweetener	15%	6%
salt	1%	0%
collagen idx	0.8	0.8
marbling idx	0.6	0.6

Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

2041 g	1 (4.5 pound) bone-in pork shoulder roast
240 g	1 cup root beer
33 g	2.5 tablespoons light brown sugar
8 g	2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 g	0.5 teaspoon ground black pepper
3 g	1.5 teaspoons ground paprika
2 g	0.5 teaspoon dry mustard
2 g	0.5 teaspoon onion powder
2 g	0.25 teaspoon garlic salt
2 g	0.25 teaspoon celery salt
1 g	0.25 teaspoon ground cinnamon
0 g	0.25 teaspoon ground ginger
1 g	0.25 teaspoon ground nutmeg
80 g	0.33333334326744 cup balsamic vinegar
360 g	1.5 cups root beer
	1.5 fluid ounces whiskey
53 g	0.25 cup brown sugar
14 g	1 tablespoon olive oil
214 g	0.75 cup prepared barbecue sauce
520 g	10 hamburger buns, split

Method: 6 steps, published by www.allrecipes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“Made it tonight for dinner. I marinated it in A&W overnight (actually closer to 10 hours). Made the rub-did not have the mustard, celery salt, or onion powder so I added garlic powder-had everything else-left the rub on for an hour. I did not sear it as I ” — a cook, 5★

“I think stayredbolt needs to chill out. If someone changes the recipe and then rates it, they are rating the changed recipe. I didn't do any of the marinating, didn't have rootbeer, cut the brown sugar in half, used an organic bbq sauce, used diced onions inst” — a cook, 5★