Countryboyswagger
Knows what a fatty is.
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2012
- Location
- Gray, GA
This may belong in the catering thread, but I'd like to share it here too, so that people know how much yall can help others with your combined knowledge and experience, and how much people can help each other, when interests are shared. In this case, it was barbecue.
A while back, my best friend got engaged and he and his fiance asked me to cater their wedding reception/backyard party. I said of course and got my UDS together. With that and my Weber OTS, I was ready to cater about 50 people some delicious pulled pork.
As the weeks went by, the guest list went from 50 to 125, and the food went from pulled pork to pulled pork and grilled chicken, beans, mac, cole slaw and corn on the cob. It was safe to say I was suddenly way over my head.
I knew that yall had tons of knowledge and advice, so this forum was the first place I came. (Well, the catering part of it anyway) I want to thank they guys who helped me out there again, just in case they don't really understand just how much they helped. They set me right on portions, tips and tricks, and ways to generally make everything more better. It all worked. They completely saved the day on that account.
I also didn't have enough capacity on my UDS so I was planning on making some more. Well, it turned out that I didn't have enough time to get them ready before the wedding (the guest list went up about 40 people in one day, about a week before the wedding)
Anyway, I called a couple of places around where I live to see if maybe I could rent a pit. In comes Custom Pits and Fabrication.
I know I've read on here that some people were unhappy about the smokers from Custom Pits and Fab. Just like to share something with yall and throw a little free advertising their way as a thank you to the guys working there.
I'd been looking at buying their A-1 Competition pit, but they didn't get very good reviews here on this forum. Exhaust problems, firebox problems, etc. I'd heard also that they'd fixed those and everything was working pretty good. Anyway, I figured this would be a great time to give one a try, since that is the exact model that they rent. Sadly, they were out of rentals. I was pretty upset but the guy on the phone, (Barry? I think that's right) said he didn't want to see me put in a bind catering my best friends wedding so they'd let me borrow one of the smokers that they don't usually rent out. Turns out, it was the company pit.
I was like hey that's cool, maybe it'll cook 80lbs of pork and grill a million chicken pieces. He just laughed and said it wouldn't be a problem.
So what I wound up with, thanks to the guys there, was a 10 ft reverse flow smoker with warming rack, with about a 3 foot charcoal grill, and two gas burners. All of this was on a trailer with a huge roof and two big overhangs. I never even felt the rain. And it rained all day.
It cooked beautifully, never even slowed down, and everything went perfectly. As far as the cooking goes, the guys at Custom Pits and Fab really saved my tail.
So I'd like to say thanks again to everyone on this forum and to Custom Pits that helped turn my very first real catering gig for 125 into a completely awesome experience.
A while back, my best friend got engaged and he and his fiance asked me to cater their wedding reception/backyard party. I said of course and got my UDS together. With that and my Weber OTS, I was ready to cater about 50 people some delicious pulled pork.
As the weeks went by, the guest list went from 50 to 125, and the food went from pulled pork to pulled pork and grilled chicken, beans, mac, cole slaw and corn on the cob. It was safe to say I was suddenly way over my head.
I knew that yall had tons of knowledge and advice, so this forum was the first place I came. (Well, the catering part of it anyway) I want to thank they guys who helped me out there again, just in case they don't really understand just how much they helped. They set me right on portions, tips and tricks, and ways to generally make everything more better. It all worked. They completely saved the day on that account.
I also didn't have enough capacity on my UDS so I was planning on making some more. Well, it turned out that I didn't have enough time to get them ready before the wedding (the guest list went up about 40 people in one day, about a week before the wedding)
Anyway, I called a couple of places around where I live to see if maybe I could rent a pit. In comes Custom Pits and Fabrication.
I know I've read on here that some people were unhappy about the smokers from Custom Pits and Fab. Just like to share something with yall and throw a little free advertising their way as a thank you to the guys working there.
I'd been looking at buying their A-1 Competition pit, but they didn't get very good reviews here on this forum. Exhaust problems, firebox problems, etc. I'd heard also that they'd fixed those and everything was working pretty good. Anyway, I figured this would be a great time to give one a try, since that is the exact model that they rent. Sadly, they were out of rentals. I was pretty upset but the guy on the phone, (Barry? I think that's right) said he didn't want to see me put in a bind catering my best friends wedding so they'd let me borrow one of the smokers that they don't usually rent out. Turns out, it was the company pit.
I was like hey that's cool, maybe it'll cook 80lbs of pork and grill a million chicken pieces. He just laughed and said it wouldn't be a problem.
So what I wound up with, thanks to the guys there, was a 10 ft reverse flow smoker with warming rack, with about a 3 foot charcoal grill, and two gas burners. All of this was on a trailer with a huge roof and two big overhangs. I never even felt the rain. And it rained all day.
It cooked beautifully, never even slowed down, and everything went perfectly. As far as the cooking goes, the guys at Custom Pits and Fab really saved my tail.
So I'd like to say thanks again to everyone on this forum and to Custom Pits that helped turn my very first real catering gig for 125 into a completely awesome experience.
