Tortoise or the Hare? Crock Pot vs. Pressure Cooker-Pulled Pork!

This will be going under my Recipe spot, but first I wanted to put it on here.

I love pork shoulder or pork butt, they are both the same thing.  It is really inexpensive and there is a lot that you can do with it.  (Sorry the picture is sideways, I don't know how to change it on the blog now there is another thing for me to work on)

Since it is summer time, we decided to have pulled pork sandwiches.  "How do you want to cook them?"  We both asked at the same time.  Andy wanted to use the crock pot, which he is a huge fan of.  Me personally, I love to pressure cook.

I told him I didn't know how a crock pot was going to do since he couldn't put it on until the morning (it was still in the freezer.  For some reason, things up here in this altitude takes forever to cook like 18 or so hours!
He said he would put it on high and let it cook all day.  I told him I think it would be easier and better to put it on the pressure cooker and let it cook for almost an hour.


So we decided to have a cook off!  I love cooking competitions!  I normally lose but what a fun time I have while competing!  See, that is one secret of life, enjoy the game.

We cut the shoulder in half  and he put his on at 8AM on high:

and I put mine on when I got around to it and set it for 45minutes.  (Get it the tortoise and the hare?)

Well, which one is better? 

After his cooked for 8 hours and mine for 45 minutes we took ours out and both shredded the meat using two forks:

Andy added his special ingredients and I added:

Ok I wasn't having a TASTING contest, it was just to see what would be the best, I guess I should have known he would have done that, always taking it up a notch!



I have to got to tell you, the texture was the same (Andy said it wasn't) but it really was:

Andy's:

Mine:

So my findings:  If you have time then go ahead and crock pot the pork.  If you are wanting to have pulled pork say like after work then put it in the pressure cooker.

Either way, take the pork out ,shred it, pour bbq sauce over it, mix it and there ya go!

Off to make the rest of dinner!

Let me know what you think!

UPDATE:  We took each of the pork and split the sandwiches.  I put mustard on mine just to be able to tell the two apart, which I already knew which one was mine.

Andy's did taste better and his words were "You should always spice up your food!"

But 2-0 mine was more tender!  I won!!!  WHO-A!

Now get in the kitchen and make it in the pressure cooker!