My boss asked me a while back if I would be interested in cooking for our company picnic. Of course I jumped at the chance at the chance to see my smoker slap full with butts. We got some awesome butts from Charlie's Meat Market in Memphis. If your anywhere near hear, it's worth a drive to Charlie's.
Originally I was to cook only half of the food and another guy from work (who is on a BBQ comp team) was to cook
the other half with an intended side by side "comparison". So the three on the left are my half and the other two I
bought to feed the rug rats, plus I have family coming to town this week.
Rubbed and injected with the injection I made the night before. Then wrapped and into the "beer fridge" at 38 degrees for 24 hours.
Then Friday afternoon the other guy calls me and says he's standing in the San Antonio airport watching them try to repair
the plane he's supposed to fly on. So the last minute scramble is on. I end up with his three butts that haven't benefited
from the 24 hours of love in my "beer fridge". Suddenly I'm looking at my smoker wondering if I should have made it
just a little bigger. Dang that's full of pig!
This is 4 or 5 hours in, I think. I was shall we say, in the "BBQ Spirit" by this point. Thank God for auto focus.
It was around that same hour that I bottled the sauce I made and realized that the labels I made didn't fit the shape
of the re purposed ketchup bottles. Thus the super slick trim job.
14 hours later. Ta dah!!!! Wrapped them up and into the cooler. I live about 40 miles from where the picnic was.
I hooked up the smoker so we could cook hotdogs and such at the park.
This was the first time other than a short test run, that I pulled her anywhere since the build.
She did very well.
After the 14 hour over night smoke I was in a complete daze at the picnic and didn't take a single picture.
I'll hit up my co-workers Monday to see if anyone else did. Here's a couple shots of the two butts I cooked for the family.
At the picnic sense we had three injected butts and three non-injected we pulled one of each into each big pan and mixed them together. The picnic was a big success, I'd like to tip my hat to everyone who shares their know how on this forum. I've learned a ton from you guys! I got a huge kick out of it when after everyone had a plate and sat down, it suddenly got very quiet. When I looked around all I could see was the backs of head and elbows as sixty plus pounds of pork was devoured in minutes.
Originally I was to cook only half of the food and another guy from work (who is on a BBQ comp team) was to cook
the other half with an intended side by side "comparison". So the three on the left are my half and the other two I
bought to feed the rug rats, plus I have family coming to town this week.
Rubbed and injected with the injection I made the night before. Then wrapped and into the "beer fridge" at 38 degrees for 24 hours.
Then Friday afternoon the other guy calls me and says he's standing in the San Antonio airport watching them try to repair
the plane he's supposed to fly on. So the last minute scramble is on. I end up with his three butts that haven't benefited
from the 24 hours of love in my "beer fridge". Suddenly I'm looking at my smoker wondering if I should have made it
just a little bigger. Dang that's full of pig!
This is 4 or 5 hours in, I think. I was shall we say, in the "BBQ Spirit" by this point. Thank God for auto focus.
It was around that same hour that I bottled the sauce I made and realized that the labels I made didn't fit the shape
of the re purposed ketchup bottles. Thus the super slick trim job.
14 hours later. Ta dah!!!! Wrapped them up and into the cooler. I live about 40 miles from where the picnic was.
I hooked up the smoker so we could cook hotdogs and such at the park.
This was the first time other than a short test run, that I pulled her anywhere since the build.
She did very well.
After the 14 hour over night smoke I was in a complete daze at the picnic and didn't take a single picture.
I'll hit up my co-workers Monday to see if anyone else did. Here's a couple shots of the two butts I cooked for the family.
At the picnic sense we had three injected butts and three non-injected we pulled one of each into each big pan and mixed them together. The picnic was a big success, I'd like to tip my hat to everyone who shares their know how on this forum. I've learned a ton from you guys! I got a huge kick out of it when after everyone had a plate and sat down, it suddenly got very quiet. When I looked around all I could see was the backs of head and elbows as sixty plus pounds of pork was devoured in minutes.
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