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9 minutes ago, Baboontyme said:

I'm pretty comfortable with where I like my briskets trimmed, anything I need to do different with a prime?

Side note - I have seem over the years a fuzzy line with briskets between Prime and Choice.  It's always been a traditionally crappy cut of meat.  Hence the length of time it takes to render the fat and soften the meat.  Touch and texture need to be applied.  How pliable is the brisket.  Fat distribution and marbling.  Prime briskets, in my experience cook faster - less fat generally.  That doesn't make them necessarily a better choice.  Careful not to over-trim, as they can dry out (especially the flat).  Beyond that, it's BAU.  

Last brisket off and currently resting for a few before wrap. I still have two racks of short ribs and five shoulders finishing up. I should be good to drive up to the school by 12:30. Might need to finish the ribs on site. I would say the hard part is over but I'm sure I'd be way wrong.

I'm sitting in the tailgate of my SUV. It is fucking pouring. Monsoon level.

I'm spent. It was a lot of fun, though. Had a blast with my buddies serving food to a lot of parents and kids that I'm friends with. Food went over very well after a slow start due to the weather. Sold out of brisket (67 lb case). Sold over 200 hot dogs. Cooked 7 butts but we only went through 4. I was kind of surprised at that. People are apparently raving about it on facespace. 

The beef ribs never made it to prime time. I guess I need to take up one of those methods in the pit cleaning thread because in the 1/3 mile drive to school enough grease spilled into the firebox that the charcoal started a small grease fire and I had to shut it down due to nasty smoke. I had the beef ribs on wrapped but it never got hot enough for them to render. Never had that problem before driving after a cook. Not sure wtf. Have to rethink this. 

Seems like I grossly over-estimated how many servings we would produce. 67 lbs of raw brisket yielded 41 1/2 lb servings according to what we have on paper. I spent about $900 on everything. Right now it looks like we made about $500 for the PTO. I was estimating about $700. Lots of water, chips and pulled pork left over and way less brisket serving volume than I thought. 

Grad party was this afternoon. Smoked 4 brisket last weekend and reheated them this morning.  Used beef stock for liquid in reheating instead of beer. Skipped doing any sausage. The briskets were delicious. I've got enough left for one family meal.

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Seems like I grossly over-estimated how many servings we would produce. 67 lbs of raw brisket yielded 41 1/2 lb servings according to what we have on paper. I spent about $900 on everything. Right now it looks like we made about $500 for the PTO. I was estimating about $700. Lots of water, chips and pulled pork left over and way less brisket serving volume than I thought. 


???

134 “half-pounds” of raw brisket only amounted to 41 cooked servings?

That doesn’t seem right
Seems like I grossly over-estimated how many servings we would produce. 67 lbs of raw brisket yielded 41 1/2 lb servings according to what we have on paper. I spent about $900 on everything. Right now it looks like we made about $500 for the PTO. I was estimating about $700. Lots of water, chips and pulled pork left over and way less brisket serving volume than I thought. 


There is no way that 67 lbs of raw brisket yielded only 20.5 lbs of cooked product. Your math is wron somewhere. That should have yielded about 50lbs cooked

Well my wife did the math, so.....

Honestly I chalk it up to a very generous serving portion (probably closer to .75 lbs), some freebies, some eating amongst the crew....and general tomfoolery. But it's quite possible she's way off. 

BTW thanks again Champ for your guidance. Very valuable. Needed the pep talk, too. 

I'm still at a loss on this. I recounted the tickets this morning. 42 servings. Wife was off by 1. No missing check books. I sent one of my buddies who helped serve home with about ~ 6 lbs (he weighed it today upon request) of brisket that I deemed unservable and fit for burnt ends. Assuming I put orders together at closer to .75 lbs (instead of .5) - and looking at images on google I'm not sure I did - the math still doesn't come close. I don't get it. 

42 x .75 = 31.5 lbs

+ 6 lbs = 37.5 lbs

+ maybe way exaggerating 2 lbs in freebies/samples I gave out = 39.5 lbs

+ drunk asshole on crew who snuck too many tastes = 40.5 lbs

We are more than whole...we made at least $600. But it just doesn't add up and it's bothering me. 

How long of slices Champ? Like entire width of flat in one piece slices? I definitely didn't serve that. A lot of mine was falling apart. Slices were thicker. I served up a few slices of each - point and flat - but they were thicker and maybe at max 4" in length. 

Seems like I grossly over-estimated how many servings we would produce. 67 lbs of raw brisket yielded 41 1/2 lb servings according to what we have on paper.


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Plan to mop it. They can dry out easily.

Somebody stole a whole brisket from you or your wife pocketed some money to put in her get outta dodge fund.

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I'm off the hook for this week, but who is doing a big cook?

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Reviving this thread for Labor Day weekend.  Cooking for 30 or so for dinner on Saturday night.  Driving down to central Texas on Friday with WSM and PBC on a hitch carrier.  Unloading and starting the fire on on the WSM to cook a brisket and pork shoulder overnight.  Cooking three racks of baby backs and a chicken the next morning.  Sausage goes on last.  My first time using Stubbs briquettes and first time transporting the cookers.  Wish me luck.

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13 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Stubbs is good stuff. 

That's what I hear. 

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Got the German potato salad done ahead of time.  Like this recipe a lot.  No mustard or mayonnaise.  Vinegar and sugar instead.  And bacon, onions, garlic, and other good stuff.

 

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Made it to Central Texas in one piece, although the centwr section of the WSM almost came apart on the highway once. Strapped it down more thoroughly and no more problems.

Just put the brisket and butt on. I'll say this about Stubb's briquettes. They smell a lot more mild than KBB, but they take forever to get you to temp. Hopefully, that translates to stability once they get there.

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^^pre-smoked chicken wings, battered and fried on-site 

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^^pre-smoked brisket, formed and breaded then refrigerated until fry time on-site 

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^^sauteed scrimp (obviously)

 

Had about 5 other hors d'oeuvres, small open house event at a wedding venue 

 

Wedding crashing season is almost upon me, again 

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Damn. I lost all of the pics from my old IMGBB account in a near-doxxing incident a couple months ago. Bitches be crazy

Pork butt for 150 people. Hot dogs, beans, salad, etc will also be served. 

I'm thinking ~ 90 lbs? 

1 hour ago, Baboontyme said:

Pork butt for 150 people. Hot dogs, beans, salad, etc will also be served. 

I'm thinking ~ 90 lbs? 

90lbs cooked or raw?

Cooked - that's plenty

Raw - you're cutting it close, unless you're very confident that a good portion of your crowd will only eat a hotdog. Or you're serving pulled pork sandwiches and you are portioning the meat.

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I was thinking raw. I know it will reduce by ~ 30%. I can't imagine each person averaging a half lb so I went a little less than that. But I defer to your judgement. 

No bubba, pork reduces by 50%. 90 raw = 45 cooked. And that’s assuming you cook boneless. Luke is right.

You need more like 120lbs

Christ. Ok thanks. How many butts you think I can fit on a 24x48 with a shelf? 8? 

No bubba, pork reduces by 50%. 90 raw = 45 cooked. And that’s assuming you cook boneless. Luke is right.

You need more like 120lbs
What's the reduction on pork and beef ribs?
Christ. Ok thanks. How many butts you think I can fit on a 24x48 with a shelf? 8? 


You should be able to for 3 deep, and I would think 4-5 rows, possibly six. You only need a 1” gap between them because they’ll shrink quickly.

Confirmed, you guys were right. I cooked 2 last night for a buddy's kid's 1st communion. Weighed before, 10.2 and 9.6 lbs (boneless). Weighed after, each was 5.4 lbs. 110 lbs should net me about 150 servings of about 6.5 oz each. 

55lbs x 16oz = 880oz
Divided by 150 = 5.86oz

Recommend you add the extra 10lbs

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It went pretty well from what I'm told. I did not go on site thankfully. Just wrapped and coolerd everything. I did not individually weigh each butt but I bought 2 cases (16) and avg weight was just under 9 lbs. I cooked 13 of them. I was kind of surprised they all fit. I could have definitely fit one more - maybe two. I was told they went over very, very well. There were 2 whole butts left over, and one made its way back to me for my kids to devour tonight. 

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I'm cooking for a lot of people again. Going to be a long night and day tomorrow. 

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Shit im cooking for 45 tonight/tomorrow and that's enough for me. A 15lb brisket and 12lbs of pork butt plus sausage tomorrow.

On 5/2/2019 at 9:50 PM, Baboontyme said:

Christ. Ok thanks. How many butts you think I can fit on a 24x48 with a shelf? 8? 

I have done 10 on mine and had room for 2 or 3 more.  Butts are just about the perfect shape for cramming a bunch on a pitt.

Edited by kevwun

Cooked 250 smash burgers on the griddle 2 weeks ago for field day at the kids’ school. I had 2 griddles going at once.

Better than last year (I think we cleared $800 for the PTO) but still room for improvement. No one bought the sausage. I think I sold 2 orders. It wasn't the heat, I guess it's just not a thing that people up here care to order. Idiots. The BBQ guy on my crew and a few others that sampled said it was the star of the show. The real star of the show was the brisket, tho. I went through 6 of them in 2 hours. I was not super happy with them and that was my fault - I pretty much wrapped them in butcher paper when they were done and threw them in the cooler. I opened that cooler to put more stuff in or take it out on-site and there was steam coming out. I should have let them rest but I figured basting wouldn't hurt. Some of the flat was impossible to cut and fell apart. It was still worlds better than anything people get up here. There were some slices of the dual brisket that could have been posted on Champ's IG on a slow day for him. :)

Most surprising, no one wanted pulled pork. I think the brisket was more on display and we had a rep from last year that contributed to it, but I only went through 2-2.5 butts. This may not work. _PNr5TnyUAPu_duGZjosUZyJ6WZEUIftmqDbOuBx

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I learned the hard way with a cooler also.  You have to let them cool off for quite awhile before you can close the lid.

3 hours ago, kevwun said:

I learned the hard way with a cooler also.  You have to let them cool off for quite awhile before you can close the lid.

 

Truth. I started leaving the temp probe(s) in and wait until it’s around 170ish internal before wrapping for the cooler, and preheat the cooler too. 

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