Are there any secrets to cooking the perfect pork steak? —Mary Beth L., St. Louis
A decade ago, Louis Maull V, whose family produced the nation’s first commercially bottled barbecue sauce right here in St. Louis, told SLM, “The best barbecue you can find in St. Louis is not in a restaurant—it’s in your back yard.” Maull also noted, “The pork steak is the basis of what makes St. Louis the No. 1 barbecue sauce market.”
Here’s how a few SLM contributors and several local pitmasters cook them. Their answers range from “smoking low and slow” to “never smoke them.”…