- Joined
- Oct 16, 2010
- Location
- Culver City, CA
One of the things that's great about this site and the BBQ community in general is that folks like to use their cooking to give back to their communities. From what I understand BBQ has its roots in community gatherings. Seeing what folks here on this site do inspired me to give it a shot. (threads by Chambers, Big Mista, RonL, Pitmaster T, Bob Brisket, Wampus, Bandit etc come to mind right off the bat, but there are many more).
My youngest kid's school has an annual Halloween carnival and beginning last year I started slinging BBQ to raise money for the PTA. I sell pulled pork sammiches which come with slaw (Guerry's slaw), MOINKs, and beans (Kevin's) are available either as a side or by the bowl.
I started off with 100# of butts. I followed Chris Lily's shoulder recipe - made the rub and injected 'em (used 1/2 of the salt called for in the recipe). Last year it was 12 butts, this year it was 16.
I cooked 12 in the offset and 4 in the Backwoods Chubby I won from abang's last raffle.
Pulled 'em off as they became ready
Let 'em rest a couple hours then pulled
It worked out to around 50#, maybe a little less pulled.
I did all this on Monday for the even which was yesterday (Saturday). I vac sealed in 3# increments and did the last 5# in 1# bags. I froze the one pounders and a couple 3 pounders to use to keep the other pacs cold in the cooler.
I set up my area, and just boiled and cut bags all day while cooking MOINKs as well. I didn't get any shots of the MOINKs. :tsk:
Event went OK this year, but not as good as last year - it was pretty hot and people weren't eating as much. There weren't as many people at the event this year either - the other booths also had less folks and it was pretty dang hot, so drinks were moving more than the food. Last year it was super crazy and I sold out and raised a lot of money. This year we were nice & steady and I raised a good amount, but had some left over - it's all good though - I have food for the Webelos camp out coming up on the weekend. :thumb:
It's a hell of a lot of work, but it really is fun. My lovely wife, my folks, and a good friend helped out. There were some displaced Southerners there who were appreciative of getting a BBQ sammich, and folks were really happy to have an alternative to burgers, hot dogs, and pizza.
I will definitely do this again next year.
Any farkers who wanna do this type of thing - all the info you need is right here on this site. There's a gold mine of wisdom on the catering forum - poke around there and you'll see what I mean.
Thanks for looking!
My youngest kid's school has an annual Halloween carnival and beginning last year I started slinging BBQ to raise money for the PTA. I sell pulled pork sammiches which come with slaw (Guerry's slaw), MOINKs, and beans (Kevin's) are available either as a side or by the bowl.
I started off with 100# of butts. I followed Chris Lily's shoulder recipe - made the rub and injected 'em (used 1/2 of the salt called for in the recipe). Last year it was 12 butts, this year it was 16.
I cooked 12 in the offset and 4 in the Backwoods Chubby I won from abang's last raffle.
Pulled 'em off as they became ready
Let 'em rest a couple hours then pulled
It worked out to around 50#, maybe a little less pulled.
I did all this on Monday for the even which was yesterday (Saturday). I vac sealed in 3# increments and did the last 5# in 1# bags. I froze the one pounders and a couple 3 pounders to use to keep the other pacs cold in the cooler.
I set up my area, and just boiled and cut bags all day while cooking MOINKs as well. I didn't get any shots of the MOINKs. :tsk:
Event went OK this year, but not as good as last year - it was pretty hot and people weren't eating as much. There weren't as many people at the event this year either - the other booths also had less folks and it was pretty dang hot, so drinks were moving more than the food. Last year it was super crazy and I sold out and raised a lot of money. This year we were nice & steady and I raised a good amount, but had some left over - it's all good though - I have food for the Webelos camp out coming up on the weekend. :thumb:
It's a hell of a lot of work, but it really is fun. My lovely wife, my folks, and a good friend helped out. There were some displaced Southerners there who were appreciative of getting a BBQ sammich, and folks were really happy to have an alternative to burgers, hot dogs, and pizza.
I will definitely do this again next year.
Any farkers who wanna do this type of thing - all the info you need is right here on this site. There's a gold mine of wisdom on the catering forum - poke around there and you'll see what I mean.
Thanks for looking!
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