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Cooking for 30. How many butts should I throw on the XL?
"Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"
Med & XL
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I would suggest doing three. You can always use the leftovers for lunch or whatever. It would not be good to run out of food!
Northern Colorado Egghead since 2012.
XL BGE and a KBQ.
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average crowd 2, heavey eating crowd 3, sounds like a heavey eating crowd
fukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it -
2 will likely be enough, but I would go ahead and make all 3 and have leftovers. I love having leftover pulled pork. In addition to just eating the pork or making sammies, you can make carnitas, nachos, ABTs,...or Brunswick Stew.Which came first the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg.
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I'll do three. Thanks team.
"Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"
Med & XL
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I did 3 nine pounders for 35 people a couple of months back - plenty of leftovers but 2 wouldn't have been enough.
Two XL BGEs - So Happy!!!!
Waunakee, WI
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Fill it up. At $1.19/lbs, whats another $8? If you have 10 lbs'ers it's tough getting four on there. I prefer to do four smaller butt, so I can get more surface area for rub.
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Two butts including the shrinkage should result in an eight ounce portion per person. With those sides that should work fine. My $.02 !!
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Call it 27 pounds of raw meat for 3 butts. Multiply by 0.6 to get approx. amount of finished product. That gives you about 16 pounds of meat. You can get 4 4oz sandwiches per pound, so that is about 64 sandwiches or 2 per person.
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Here you go:
Byrdo’s HOW MUCH MEAT
For pulled pork, a typical sandwich (or serving) is 4 oz of cooked meat. For adult males, you might want to plan on 2 sandwiches per person. For women and children, plan on one sandwich per person. The average butt loses about 40% of its weight while cooking. So, to get 6 pounds of cooked pork (24 sandwiches) you would need to start with 10 pounds of butt (2.4 servings per LB of uncooked meat). So a simple little formula is all you need:Number of men (men or large eaters)= M
Number of women and children (lighter eaters)= W
Pounds of Butt to buy = B
B=(2M+W)/2.4
So if there 5 men and 5 women,
B=(2*5+5)/2.4 =15/2.4 = 6.25 Pounds -
Is it just me or can some of you eat significantly more than 8 oz of Pulled pork from the egg in a sitting? I think for my birthday, I will just have a whole butt to myself!
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last time I ate 2 lbs of bark before I pulled itColumbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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Chubbs said:last time I ate 2 lbs of bark before I pulled it
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I've feed 30 men plus a few kids and two butts worked good but we ate it all!_______________________________________________XLBGE
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Chubbs said:last time I ate 2 lbs of bark before I pulled it"Shrinkage"?
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Gandy Dancer said:
Here you go:
Byrdo’s HOW MUCH MEAT
For pulled pork, a typical sandwich (or serving) is 4 oz of cooked meat. For adult males, you might want to plan on 2 sandwiches per person. For women and children, plan on one sandwich per person. The average butt loses about 40% of its weight while cooking. So, to get 6 pounds of cooked pork (24 sandwiches) you would need to start with 10 pounds of butt (2.4 servings per LB of uncooked meat). So a simple little formula is all you need:Number of men (men or large eaters)= M
Number of women and children (lighter eaters)= W
Pounds of Butt to buy = B
B=(2M+W)/2.4
So if there 5 men and 5 women,
B=(2*5+5)/2.4 =15/2.4 = 6.25 Pounds
Definitely some smart people on this forum. My thanks to all of you. Three 9 lbs butts will be going on the egg at 3 am. Enjoy the weekend everybody."Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here's to "Down Home," the Old North State!"
Med & XL
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