Last Saturday I had planned on a cookout at my house but then Mother Nature said let's turn the oven up to about 95° with a ton of humidity.... So... I don't have a pool but my friend does, so I invited myself to his house with the promise of some food for the grill.
Little did he know....
I packed up my kettle in the truck along with a cooler full of beer and a cooler full of food!
Getting it started while everyone did some swimming. Pork shots on the kettle at 250°
The kettle is unbelievably versatile. Ran at 250° for about 1.5 hours without skipping a beat.
While the pork shots were cooking we played cornhole and shot some pests in the yard..
That's my buddy Gary, he can shoot iron sights better than most people shoot a scoped rifle.
After cornhole and shooting groundhogs... We had some time to kill so we hit golf balls in the pool (and into the side of the house... Fore!). No pics of this for some reason?
Then everyone got hungry so I shifted into grill master mode.
Fire up some lump, we're cranking this kettle up to 11 and breaking the knob off!
Then the show started! Tomahawks about 3# each and 2 big filets I cut off a whole loin I bought. Probably 9#'s of dead cow on the grill.
With the filets. BTW - the sear grate is awesome, big shout out to my better half for that gift on Father's Day!
So that's the cow... While that was going I also had about 7-8#'s of crab legs in the steamer. About a 50/50 mix... 4#'s of king crab and all but 4#'s of snow crab clusters.
I tried to get one picture of everything on my big 3 foot cutting board that I used to serve it, but these heathens were ripping into it as fast as I could plate it.
There was also some awesome sweet corn that steamed with the crab. Home grown tomatoes with mozzarella and balsamic reduction, and cucumber salad for sides. But honestly no one on here cares about that stuff...
I have to say everything was made on the kettle and a steamer pot. Almost no clean up. Which was good because I drank so many beers I'm not even sure I ate any of the food...
I woke up in the passenger seat of my truck running with AC blasting and radio on. Everything was in the back packed safely away and I had a huge to-go platter in my fridge Sunday morning. I'm calling it a success!
Here's to 42 laps around the sun!
Little did he know....
I packed up my kettle in the truck along with a cooler full of beer and a cooler full of food!
Getting it started while everyone did some swimming. Pork shots on the kettle at 250°
The kettle is unbelievably versatile. Ran at 250° for about 1.5 hours without skipping a beat.
While the pork shots were cooking we played cornhole and shot some pests in the yard..
That's my buddy Gary, he can shoot iron sights better than most people shoot a scoped rifle.
After cornhole and shooting groundhogs... We had some time to kill so we hit golf balls in the pool (and into the side of the house... Fore!). No pics of this for some reason?
Then everyone got hungry so I shifted into grill master mode.
Fire up some lump, we're cranking this kettle up to 11 and breaking the knob off!
Then the show started! Tomahawks about 3# each and 2 big filets I cut off a whole loin I bought. Probably 9#'s of dead cow on the grill.
With the filets. BTW - the sear grate is awesome, big shout out to my better half for that gift on Father's Day!
So that's the cow... While that was going I also had about 7-8#'s of crab legs in the steamer. About a 50/50 mix... 4#'s of king crab and all but 4#'s of snow crab clusters.
I tried to get one picture of everything on my big 3 foot cutting board that I used to serve it, but these heathens were ripping into it as fast as I could plate it.
There was also some awesome sweet corn that steamed with the crab. Home grown tomatoes with mozzarella and balsamic reduction, and cucumber salad for sides. But honestly no one on here cares about that stuff...
I have to say everything was made on the kettle and a steamer pot. Almost no clean up. Which was good because I drank so many beers I'm not even sure I ate any of the food...
I woke up in the passenger seat of my truck running with AC blasting and radio on. Everything was in the back packed safely away and I had a huge to-go platter in my fridge Sunday morning. I'm calling it a success!
Here's to 42 laps around the sun!
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