Gary Hafer
TVWBB Member
First, what a treat to receive NEW AMERICAN BARBECUE in the mail yesterday. It is superb, Jamie. Yes, and it has all the classics of your other Weber publications—the fine photography by Tim Turner, for example—but what superb recipes and the stories: Wow, what an added bonus! I’m going to be barbecuing a lot this summer.
Jamie, do you have any strategies for dealing with multiple grill-and-smoker cooks, such as when you’re cooking for a big crowd? Do you keep a basic outline to make sure everything comes off at the same time? Or is this something you just intuitively know? I always find it a struggle to plan “backwards” from identical serving times to when the cooking time should commence, all commanding my attention at once. And then there’s always the guest who “wants to see how you do it” while expecting you to narrate all the steps as you hop from smoker to grill.
Jamie, do you have any strategies for dealing with multiple grill-and-smoker cooks, such as when you’re cooking for a big crowd? Do you keep a basic outline to make sure everything comes off at the same time? Or is this something you just intuitively know? I always find it a struggle to plan “backwards” from identical serving times to when the cooking time should commence, all commanding my attention at once. And then there’s always the guest who “wants to see how you do it” while expecting you to narrate all the steps as you hop from smoker to grill.