Shoulder Pans
Anyone who has cooked a whole shoulder can tell you that when the shoulder is done, you better not try to pick it up, unless you want to have "dropped pork" instead of "pulled pork"! This pan is sized to hold a sixteen pound shoulder (it can also hold three eight pound butts, if they hang over the edges a little). It's made of 1/2" expanded metal and 1/4" cold-rolled mild steel. The racks are sized so five fit in my 24x60 cooker, and the handles are angled so the pans will stack in the dishwasher.
No cooker cooks evenly no matter what the manufacturer says. These racks let you easily swap meat around from hot to less hot areas, so they all finish at the same time. They can also be used for contest presentation, where the meat is carried to the judging table intact.
Here's five pans in the cooker. We'll cook one shoulder for the blind box, one for each of three judges, and one for finals. So far, we've wrapped the final shoulder and taken it home (sigh).