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  1. will raymond

    This weekends smoking...

    We are smoking for Essex festival of food and drink at Cressing Temple Barns this weekend. We have 55kg of free range blythburgh pork, 30kg of imported Australian brisket from Tom Hixson, 30kg of 3 joint chicken wings and also hope to have 30 portions of beef ribs too (subject to the butcher...
  2. will raymond

    Whole pig cooking

    Hello all, Got a wedding that we're catering for this Saturday and they wanted a hog roast with a difference - cue large reverse flow smoker! Have ordered a 65-70kg pig to serve 120-130people. Timetable so far (subject to any suggestions) 8pm Friday - light pit and get to temperature 9pm...
  3. will raymond

    A busy weekend ahead of us

    Event number 3 for us this weekend.. Essex food festival (http://ecfoodfestival2015.nmgl.co.uk/) 45kg (4 in number) FR Pork Shoulder - est 140-160ptn 35kg (6 in number) Beef Brisket - est 110-120ptn Will also have Jerk Chicken on the BBQ too on the day ~100ptns Also doing Bacon Baps in the...
  4. will raymond

    Our first mass catering event

    Well this week has been quite a stressful one! On top of running my pub full time I was also in charge of getting everything together for a birthday bash for 50 heads on Saturday and then the next day (today) we had our first public event at a local food and drink festival in the local town...
  5. will raymond

    Event cooking/mass catering

    Hello all, We have a few large events coming up and I had a few questions about how others go about catering for events. My plan for multi day events at present was to arrive on day 1 with what we hope to sell already cooked and chilled and then using the smoker to slowly reheat and hold the...
  6. will raymond

    Hello from sunny Suffolk!

    Hi there, Been a long time lurker reading up on all the exciting looking builds on this forum. Started my smoking experiences a few years ago with a bog standard UDS which got me hooked even using crappy charcoal and the overly expensive JD chips they sell in B&Q.  Fast forward to now, took...
  7. will raymond

    Thermal Mass

    I have bought this little beaut below but not actually getting it until January. Already thinking of a few improvements and modifications though. The current owner had it custom built to his spec and it cooks great but he says that it has to be refuelled every 2 hours or so to retain...
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