So I was asked to cook for a cousin's wedding.


 
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DaveW

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no problem. How many people ? Started out with about 70. Then went to 100. Final count is between 100 - 150.

Wedding is on Sunday, and of course, it's an hour away from me.

Here's the bill of faire:

Pulled Pork (10 Boston Butts, about 90lbs)
Spare Ribs (10 racks)
Brisket (4 or 6 flats, haven't decided yet.
20lbs grilled chicken (cooked on site on my Ranch Kettle)
40 burgers (on site)
40 dogs (on site)

Sides:
Smoked baked beans (7 1/2pans)
Smoked Mac and Cheese (6 1/2pans)
Red Tater salad (Sams)
Yellow Tater salad (Sams)
Slaw (4 pans, bagged mix with jar sauce)


Will be interesting to see how it goes. That said, the fun has begun.

First up was 4lbs of bacon, 6 green peppers and 6 onions (for the baked beans) on the Blackstone. Screwed up and didn't get pics of the bacon while it was cooking. But what can you do ?


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Smoke Hollow 44 #1 with 5 butts and 2 pans of beans:

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Smoke Hollow 44 #2 with the other 5 butts and 2 pans of beans:

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Group shot of both Smoke Hollows:

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Brisket, Ribs and Mac and Cheese will go on tomorrow night. Ribs will probably be done on the Smoke Hollow. Brisket will probably be done on my other Ranch Kettle.
 
Wow! When I first read the number of quests and what you planed to cook I thought how in the world is he going to do that much. Well I see you've got the equipment to do it. Still a large undertaking but it looks like you're in control.
 
Big job but it looks like the right person is doing it. Your family will have a great meal for sure.
 
Man that is one big fantastic cook you doing. So fare its looking awesome and it sounds like you have everything under control. By the way you forgot to tell us when to show up. At that point a few more people won't matter.:o
 
That's a wedding I would have loved to been at, and I hate weddings :)
Congrats on that massive, highly successful cook
 
UPDATE:

Most of the plans ended up out the window. The person who was going to pick up one of my smokers burnt out his clutch, leading to a major change in plans. Ended up loading everything into my van, including my two smokers and did the cook on site. Things were going fine right up until a small fire flared up in my drip pan. I instinctively opened the door, slid the pan out and dropped it to the ground thinking I'd deal with the flames there. When the pan hit the ground, the water and drippings sloshed everywhere, spreading the fire a bit. It was a small fire, no big deal. Was easily put out with some baking soda. But, when the pan hit the ground and everything splashed out, some of it hit both my lower legs and man, it hurt. Luckily, no blisters or major burns, but it was painful.

Timing couldn't have been worse as that was about when the chicken, burgers and dogs were supposed to go on the RK. Luckily, my brother jumped in and manned the RK. That itself was an adventure as he's never used an RK and doesn't use charcoal either.

further complicating matters was that my smokers struggled to get up to the temps that I wanted. I think this was largely due to how much stuff they were loaded down with. Fortunately, I was able to juggle some things around and stay ahead of the serving line for the most part. It wasn't my most successful cook, and definitely didn't go off as planned, but people still loved the food, and that's what counts.
 
Nice Job Dave! Songs will be sung about your cook :)

Seriously though, as memorable as this was for you, many others will have their own memories and will share them with you (I did my cousins wedding in 2011 and I still have memories told to me)
 
Clint said:
Nice Job Dave! Songs will be sung about your cook :)

Seriously though, as memorable as this was for you, many others will have their own memories and will share them with you (I did my cousins wedding in 2011 and I still have memories told to me)
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Thanks Clint. I've already heard stories about guests going on an on the next day about how good the food was at the wedding. In some cases, it was two people without any vested interest.




Matt Rector said:
Awesome cook, looks like a lot of fun!
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It was a hell of a lot of work !!!!! But yeah, I'm crazy enough that it was fun to me !!
 
Glad you were not seriously injured!
As for the cook....STRONG work! Having done a couple of wedding feasts for friends I understand the pressure you put yourself under to make it all look so easy and having everything turn out as near perfectly as humans can get.
I think you got the whole thing done beautifully.
The one thing people think I'm nuts over is making sure I have the right equipment on hand and understanding how and when it all gets employed. I have learned that a fire extinguisher is not an optional piece of equipment but, I have forgotten it a couple of times, thank God I didn't need it. Baking soda to be returned to the grilling tote!
Again, excellent piece of cooking sir!
 
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