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Default Pulled Pork into Carnitas???

On Feb 17, 1:44*am, Jake Honeywill <Jake.Honeywill.
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> Anyway, has anyone got any ideas of how to do the
> pulled pork thing in an oven?


Throw a leg of pork into the broiler and leave it in for an hour or
so, until the top layer gets crispy and cut that part off and chop it
into squares, and then pull the tender inner layers apart with two
forks and you have something close to the faux carnitas which the OP
wanted.

Carnitas is all about the *texture* of crisp crunchy chunks of pork
vs. the tender chunks, folks, it's not about some secret bbq sauce.

What the OP really seemed to want to do is somehow carmelize the
already shredded pulled pork, and that's just not going to happen, the
shreds just aren't going to get crunchy.