Birthday BBQ Party

[woodburner]

Rewind:

This past January a good friend inquired of my services for a 40ish Birthday party for his dear wife, of which I happily obliged my time and equipment. The final and many times revised meat menu consists of Pulled pork, beef brisket, pork ribs, and chicken.

Here we are some 8 months later, and the smoke starts here on Saturday evening, for a Sunday party.

I have no problem documenting with pictures the prep and cook, as long as there is some interest.

Yea or Nay?

woodburner

[rooftop1000]

fire up the camera

tracey

[daniellewiley]

You have to ask??

Go! Go! Go!

[Abra]

But of course, are you nuts?

[lemoncoke]

YES! please post...

[woodburner]

ok

It's 11:00 am Saturday here in upstate NY where I call home. Weather is overcast with clouds and possible showers expected this evening and Sunday morning. This is good news, since the bbq kicks off Sunday afternoon with a forecast of clearing by then.

I'm going to start brining the chicken shortly. I tend to work backwards with chicken. I decide on the finishing sauce, and In this case it will be a Caribbean theme. I want to make sure the brine contains spices to enhance, and not collide with my finishing sauce.

I have to operate slow and methodical from here on in. I'll be sleepless until Sunday night after the party is over.

I'm looking forward to this.

woodburner

[woodburner]

Here is an overview of the meat and fowl to be cooked. We have twelve racks of 3 1/2 down, loin back pork ribs, 15 lbs of chicken parts, one beef brisket flat, and two 6 1/2 lb. pork butts.

The bulk of the cooking will be done at the party site on Sunday, as you see here:

I'll be starting the pork butts, here at my house late tonight, followed by the beef brisket, to start cooking Sunday morning, on a smaller cooker.

Mid morning Sunday I'll take the butts and brisket up to the party location and finish those in the larger cooker along with the ribs and chicken.

woodburner

[Malawry]

What's the full menu, Woodburner? Or are you just handling the meat? (Looks like you'll have enough on your hands just with all that meat!)

[woodburner]

What's the full menu, Woodburner? Or are you just handling the meat? (Looks like you'll have enough on your hands just with all that meat!)

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yes, i'm handling the just the protien end of things.

this past spring, i had the pleasure of meeting and talking to chris lilly, famed of big bob gibson's bbq. he was here in upstate ny, shortly after the bbq block party in nyc. we talked about cookers in general, and just chewed the fat. i inquired of his technique for injecting shoulders at memphis in may competition. consisting of apple juice and water, salt, sugar, and wooster sauce, i injected these two butts yesterday. here they have been sitting in smoke for about 6 hours.

the brisket is now sitting under the butts, and in a few hours, i'll move everthing to my large cooker at the party site.

woodburner

[woodburner]

here is a shot of the injection process.

for some unknown reason my shift key has f'd up, and i cannot capitalize, so please bear with me.

woodburner

[woodburner]

the plan was executed perfectly. dean started my cooker going at about 7 am this morning, and i pulled the pork and beef from my cooker at home and drove the short few miles to his house at about 9 am.

now here we are about 8 hours into this cook, and the ribs are started.

i'll go back about noon and start the chicken.

woodburner

[lancastermike]

the plan was executed perfectly. dean started my cooker going at about 7 am this morning, and i pulled the pork and beef from my cooker at home and drove the short few miles to his house at about 9 am.

now here we are about 8 hours into this cook, and the ribs are started.

i'll go back about noon and start the chicken.

woodburner

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That is one impressive bunch of meat. What wood are you using for your smoke? The cooker is gas fired?

[woodburner]

lancastermike,

the cooker runs on charoal, i'm using lump.

smoking wood is cherry and oak.

woodburner

[woodburner]

dinner is at 4 pm

woodburner