blane7171
MemberGot rid of the matchlight.
The short story is that I have been doing pulled pork in an amateur capacity for a couple years - retirement parties, graduation parties, birthdays. I have done 2 for profit jobs but most have been for charity or at cost for friends. I've been using a homemade smoker I converted from an old wood stove. Works fairly well but I can only do max 7 butts and feed at most 100 people.
So all of that was practice for a longer range plan to get into a concession trailer and do it commercially upon retirement. I retired last fall and have been shopping for trailers - with limited success. One thing I'm surprised to find is that most of the trailers I've shown some interest in are ALL ELECTRIC. I also own a travel trailer and am very familiar with propane appliances (refer, stove, hot water). I expected concession trailers to have similar technology - especially the stove and refer. (Stove would be for beans and perhaps tamales - my current smoker has a flat top that I put the beans on.)
So I guess my main questions: Is an all electric set-up pretty standard? How does one deal with this for catering private parties and even prep in my backyard (I do not have a 50 amp plug in wired and prolly don't have the capability in my current panel.)? I imagine most festival venues provide electric, but I'm not so sure about other venues like breweries and such. Is a propane refer uncommon in the concession business?
So all of that was practice for a longer range plan to get into a concession trailer and do it commercially upon retirement. I retired last fall and have been shopping for trailers - with limited success. One thing I'm surprised to find is that most of the trailers I've shown some interest in are ALL ELECTRIC. I also own a travel trailer and am very familiar with propane appliances (refer, stove, hot water). I expected concession trailers to have similar technology - especially the stove and refer. (Stove would be for beans and perhaps tamales - my current smoker has a flat top that I put the beans on.)
So I guess my main questions: Is an all electric set-up pretty standard? How does one deal with this for catering private parties and even prep in my backyard (I do not have a 50 amp plug in wired and prolly don't have the capability in my current panel.)? I imagine most festival venues provide electric, but I'm not so sure about other venues like breweries and such. Is a propane refer uncommon in the concession business?