There are few greater pleasures than an excellent pulled pork sandwich. Unless we're talking about pulled goat tacos. Or smoky pulled barbecue chicken or a plate of shredded beef so tender it melts in the mouth. It's hard to choose, so why try?
The beauty of pulled meat of any kind is its versatility. Make it into a sandwich with soft hamburger buns and a scoop of coleslaw. Roll it up in a tortilla with crunchy radishes and cotija cheese. Drop it on pizza, stuff it inside calzones, or toss it with pasta: there are plenty of ways to use it all week long.
Many of these recipes are also ideally suited for the slow-cooker, which we love in the summer because it doesn't heat up our kitchens! If the recipe calls for oven-cooking, here's how to adapt it to the slow-cooker.
From The Kitchn:
1. How to Cook (and Shred) a Pork Shoulder
2. Heat-Wave Carnitas
3. Roasted Goat Tacos
4. Hoisin Pork Wraps with Peanut Slaw
5. Mexican Pulled Beef
From Around the Web:
6. North Carolina Pulled-Pork Barbecue from Gourmet
7. Chicken Tingas Sandwich from Serious Eats
8. Cochinita Pibil from Simply Recipes (reviewed on The Kitchn)
9. Ropa Vieja - Shredded Beef from Saveur
10. Braised Goat from the San Francisco Chronicle
Come across any other good recipes for shredded meat lately?
Related: Ultimate Cheater Pulled Pork from The Splendid Table
(Images: Emma Christensen and Roland Bello/Gourmet)
5 Things Paris Taught Me About Travel
Recipe: Ham, Cheddar & Chive Egg Bakes
Good Food to Share 
The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Bacsac Bacsquare 04...
Apartment Therapy's Sofa Shopping Guide
Nikki’s Sweet and Cheery Print Studio
I have been absolutely shocked to see in north Texas- I have not been able to find any kind of pork roast all summer. At all. I get this is beef land, but right now only specialty grocers sell pork roasts here. I asked the butcher at my grocery and he said with the strong demand for beef in the summer they just stop carrying pork roasts til it cools off and a demand comes back. I've wanted to make pulled pork sandwiches so bad all summer!
Just before you posted this article, I was debating between a slow cooker and an ice cream maker.
Decision is now made.
"Roll it up in a tortilla with crunchy radishes and cojita cheese".. I love this! But the name of the cheese it's actually cotija not cojita.
@daniellamx - Thanks for catching that. Brain blip!
Mmmm, yum! We put pulled pork on ciabbata with smeared avacado, mayo, lettuce, and tomato. Best summer-time sandwich ever!
I can vouch for #7 as a native NC-er. Delicious!