So here's my situation, we are throwing a surprise party for the better half's parents for their anniversary, there is gonna be around 50 people there. I said I would smoke some pork butts for it, so my question is how many pork butts would you say I need to do??
I feel like 4 I can get by on but I should do 5 to be safe. I got a master built 30 in smoker, so is it possibly to do that many at a time??? I am going to do them a day or two before so all I got to do is warm them up them and shred them. I also just did one last week that I halved, it cut down on cook time a little and gave it some good bark, would it be possibly to do 5 halved butts in my smoker as well?
so I guess my main concern is can I do 5 butts( or even more) at once in my size of a smoker and/or with them halved (to help with time and more bark) ?? and if so, what all different should I do with that many, rotating them around, get a water pan to put right above the hot box to help with eliminating hot spots in the smoker???
any help/ suggests would be great!!
I feel like 4 I can get by on but I should do 5 to be safe. I got a master built 30 in smoker, so is it possibly to do that many at a time??? I am going to do them a day or two before so all I got to do is warm them up them and shred them. I also just did one last week that I halved, it cut down on cook time a little and gave it some good bark, would it be possibly to do 5 halved butts in my smoker as well?
so I guess my main concern is can I do 5 butts( or even more) at once in my size of a smoker and/or with them halved (to help with time and more bark) ?? and if so, what all different should I do with that many, rotating them around, get a water pan to put right above the hot box to help with eliminating hot spots in the smoker???
any help/ suggests would be great!!