Lindseys Grandpa
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BBQ , stew and slow .Gonna cook 16 butts day before , pull cool down in ice bath and bag. Will heat in foil pans with some juice. Heat stew in large pot. Venue only has 3 stoves .
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Longhorn 16
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Focus on the task and trust your instincts. I had a situation a year ago where I agreed to cook for about 100 people. Then a jack wagon in the booster club advertised “all you can eat bbq” if you buy a $7 t-shirt. Bam now we are over 600 people. It was butts so not that big of a swing for the meat. The sides, buns, sauce, plates etc was a challenge in a 24 hour window.
Plan it out and I am sure you will be successful.
Plan it out and I am sure you will be successful.
GA1dad
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SWEET SUCCESS!!! I saw many going back for thirds!!Now that I've showered and gotten settled, I had a plate myself,,,,, not bad!!! Was way too busy to think of photographs, but others got some that I will share as they are sent to me. Oh, and now I've officially worn a tie for the fourth time in my life.
bilgerat
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looks good!! If you want to do the 35 briskets I have a smoker trailer I rent out. it will smoke 18 to 20 10lb briskets at a time
GA1dad
Senior Member
Thank you brother! The new cooker I just ordered has a capacity of about 40 medium sized pork butts. Not sure what that will translate to in briskets,,,,
bilgerat
Senior
depends on how big the briskets you get, I like a smaller 13 to 15lb ones , smoke in less time and take up less rack space, 13 to 15lb briskets take up about twice the room a butt will
Dub
Senior Member
Man! 
That was a heckuva undertaking, but I knew you could pull it off. I would be completely and utterly lost trying to cook on that scale.
That was a heckuva undertaking, but I knew you could pull it off. I would be completely and utterly lost trying to cook on that scale.
GA1dad
Senior Member
Me and my good friend Joe manned the grill. Our goal was to cook on 2/3 of the grill and leave 1/3 as a cool spot. It worked pretty good. Even with hot gloves and long tongs our knuckles and hands got burnt up. We averaged about 15 pounds at a time on the grill. We showed up at 7:00 and fired it up. At about 7:30-ish we started cooking and all 90 pounds was done at 10:30. We went through 3 bags of charcoal. All the veggie prep was done Friday evening. My brother in law Perry and friend Bill cooked the rice and beans while Joe and I were at the grill. My son helped out by grabbing a cleaver and chopping the chicken up. We all attacked the table set up and refilled as needed. Needless to say, I was most appreciative for everyone that helped out!!
Here's some letter we whipped together one weekend. I had my daughter ( CJ ) use the jigsaw to cut them herself.
And the happy and relieved family that everything went well.
Here's some letter we whipped together one weekend. I had my daughter ( CJ ) use the jigsaw to cut them herself.
And the happy and relieved family that everything went well.
Dub
Senior Member
Great times, great results for a wonderful looking family with the help of your friends.
Life is good !!!
Your son looks like he could single-handedly keep everyone acting right. You and your buds mess around and get too slow on the grill and he'd come out there and tune ya'll up.
Great looking family, JD.
Life is good !!!
Your son looks like he could single-handedly keep everyone acting right. You and your buds mess around and get too slow on the grill and he'd come out there and tune ya'll up.
Great looking family, JD.
GA1dad
Senior Member
Your son looks like he could single-handedly keep everyone acting right. You and your buds mess around and get too slow on the grill and he'd come out there and tune ya'll up.
Yep, he's a hoss for sure. He goes by Bubba, but I call him either corn-fed or Tonka.
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work2play2
Banned again & will band again soon
What smoker did you buy?
redeli
"Useless Billy Coach"
tie looks good on you
dwhee87
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Looks like it was a hit! You are a courageous man, taking on that endeavor. Congrats!
MOTS
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X2....well done!
Mexican Squealer
Senior Member
Nice job! Took some stones to even consider that event.
Wow! You knocked it out of the park GA1. I can't wait to see the brisket cook. That's going to be quite a challenge. I hope yo get well paid!
Dirtroad Johnson
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You the man Ga1, nice job. 
GA1dad
Senior Member
Well,, I don't know that I'll get paid at all. My motivations are two-fold. One- it will reduce (or wipe clean ) the dues my wife pays to the Temple,,,,, and two- they have a very nice commercial, DHEC approved kitchen that I would like to have access to (at no charge ) so that I can legally do some catering a few time a year. I mentioned it to one of the board members this weekend and he seemed open minded about that. My wife's school approached me last year about catering an annual end of the year faculty dinner, but I had to turn it down for legal and insurance liability reasons. I'm slowly beginning to put all those pieces into place.
