My biggest cook ever


 
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Jim Babek

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A friend is getting married next week and tomorrow night is his stag. The caterer bailed out tuesday morning so I get a call telling me Im cooking for 50 guys. For whatever reason it didnt phase me at all. Went to the slaughter house and grabbed 85 lbs of boston butt then headed to the grocery store. 5 heads of cabbage, 6 bottles of ketchup for sauce, 3 bottles of cheap yellow mustard, a ton of beans and a couple bags of corn meal. Called my cousin and borrowed his WSM. Grabbed 3 chaffing dishes from the fire house, 40 lbs of Kingsford and 100 hamburger rolls.

The butts are trimmed and waiting to be rubbed. The slaw and bbq sauce is made. The corn bread and beans will be made tonight.

The butts will be cooked on 2 smokers. Mine has the old 3 tier modification with the bbq guru and et-73, dry pan foiled. The other will have two grates and the terra cotta planter bottom. 6 butts on mine and 4 on my cousins.

The stag is at 7 tomorrow night and Im planning on starting the smoke around 1 pm. Last time I cooked 6 butts on one smoker it took 23 hours and 15 minutes. Once at 190 they will and be double foiled, wrapped in towels and rest in coolers for a few hours before pulling.

Wish me luck with the adventure I never asked for...
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Wow, good luck from me as well. But I don't envy you at all. I am doing 2 butts and 2 spares and I am exhausted just getting it going. You will be one tired puppy at bedtime tomorrow. I hope you are appreciated by your buddy.
 
Sounds like fun and this guy owes you big time. Only thing that makes me a little nervous is the 40 lbs of Kingsford. Is that gonna be enough to keep both smokers going 20+ hours. First time somebody makes a beer run I'd lay in another bag.
 
Jim, That's alot of butts for 50 people. But hey, you'll have plenty of leftovers. Sounds like fun. Happy smoking Bud.
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The beer is covered as is the vodka for gimlets...I think the charcoal will be enough as with two full rings I still have a bag and a half left.

Yeah its a ton of meat and no doubt there will be leftovers but Id rather have way too much than people walking up to an empty serving tray. Besides one of the guys who has had my Q before said " I can eat this till I puke" and he probably had 2 pounds...literally plate fulls of pork, nothing else. So Im prepared for the worst..or best.
 
The 6 butts on the 3 tier were pulled foiled and put in the cooler at 7am. Very early and very strange cook time. The other 4 are still going and look like they will be done at the planned time of 1 pm
 
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