"I used the dough part of the recipe and filled with slow cooked pork (tomatillo, anaheims, onion, garlic, jalapeno and cilantro). Followed the dough recipe exactly and it was FANTASTIC. Literally at least as good as any tamale I have ever tasted. Flat-out excellent recipe and perfect timing instructions. Alton is annoying as heck, but this recipe is definitely a winner.

" I made this both ways (as written salt amount and with 1/3rd the salt. Tasted outstanding both ways, though I did removed the crust when using the more salt, and did not put the veg in the pan. Dropped mushrooms into the pan at the 3/4 done point and they were great. Tyler's recipes seem to always turn out great without much difficult technique.

I do suggest using a meat thermometer. I cooked it to 142 on my thermometer and it was a perfect medium rare on a large roast of 15.5 lbs.