Keeping Brats warm

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cobycarling

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Jun 21, 2015
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All, looking for some help. I have to cook 240 brats for my sons high school football team this Thursday. I plan to smoke them. I have the ability to do them all at one time but will need to keep them warm for up to a few hours afterwards while the team filters through to eat between practices and games. I was going to put them in an electric roaster with some apple juice to keep them moist and hopefully not pull the smoke flavor out of them and not to overpower them with something else flavor wise. What would you suggest? Or does my plan seem to make sense.
 
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When I cooked brats at work we would buy 14 of the 18 packs, and cook about 150 in the first batch, then hot hold in a roaster. Then stagger cooking the remaining in either one batch or two smaller batches. depending on how fast they were being eaten.

My holding liquid was a non-alcohol beer, butter, onion, hot sauce bath. But we did not hold them more than 30 or 40 minutes. I'd be curious to see what "a few" hours would do to the casings. Maybe duplicate your method with 5 sausages to insure the casings will be okay?
 
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