Deploying with OBR

bjeans

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

I am one devastated egghead right about now. I ruptured my bicep tendon loading the egg into my truck. it twisted while we were lifting and the corner of the hinge jammed into my bicep with it fully loaded up with the pressure of supporting the egg. made a horrible popping sound and now my bicep is all balled up by my shoulder. just got back from the emergency room. Orthopedic consult in the morning. I am so bummed out-I just want to go to bed, Sh!t. 

It does not hurt as bad as it looks but I'm done. Surgery likely, down for weeks

I haven't read the entire thread yet but just wanted to jump in to say how great it was that you and your wife were volunteering and organizing, and how terribly sorry I am that you got hurt - when you were trying to help people. Beyond unfair. (I know no one ever promised us life was fair, but still.)

P.S. I will not look at the photos and thinking about them makes me put my head down on the table. {breathe}
Beth

nolaegghead

thetrim said:

Good luck today everyone, and @The Cen-Tex Smoker given your broken wing, maybe you can join the Free Hugs team.    

Did someone say "broken wing"?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

nolaegghead

Cen-Tex, my buddy just had his surgery for this same problem this morning.  5 months of rehab.  But don't think it's bad at all.  Unless you git Nurse Ratchet (or Bridget).

caliking

Dude, where the hell are y'all?? Can't seem to raise @20stone on the telephonic device either. 

Pops and I will be there tomorrow morning. Probably 8ish.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Finally made it. We hit the dinner shift and the prep for lunch shift. Our group sliced, sauced, and packed hundreds of pork loins for immidiate service tonight. We cleaned up and prepped for the 500 (4500lbs) of butts to go on all night for lunch tomorrow. We are taking the early shift tomorrow which is pulling and packing all the pork butts for 20,000 lunches tomorrow.  Found out today they do not have a single paid employee on the entire staff (including the CEO). Every dime goes to operations and getting food out. 

@20stone flew in from San Francisco with a 4 am wake up call after being gone for 2 weeks.  He had not seen his house since the storm came through. We hit town 3 hours later. House was good, he dropped everything and headed over with us. He sliced and we boxed
dozens of loins and then we all stripped it down and set up to prep the butts for tomorrow.  Dude is a beast. 

I held up well for a guy guy with an injured wing. Was a great day and we will all sleep well tonight. 

Here are some pics from today. 



@20stone crushing dozens of pork loins. These were right off the pit and a solid 300 degrees. We went and bought better gloves for tomorrow before we even had a beer. 

We put 50 slices a tray, then they were sauced and packed in Cambro for pick up. 


People were picking up as fast as we could push them out



As as soon as we were done slicing and packing loins, we stripped the whole thing down, sanitized and started rubbing and loading 500 butts for lunch tomorrow. All 500 buts were on in under an hour. 






There are 8 of these smokers that hold between 80 and 120 butts each. All
doing something 24x7. 

Tired. Good night. 

DoubleEgger

That's so awesome @The Cen-Tex Smoker I know you're whipped. Thanks for taking a moment to share your experience with us. God Bless You 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

caliking said:

Dude, where the hell are y'all?? Can't seem to raise @20stone on the telephonic device either. 

Pops and I will be there tomorrow morning. Probably 8ish.

Sorry! See you at 8am. Beers for lunch after morning shift. 

nolaegghead

I appreciate your volunteer efforts, especially with that broken wing

Thinking about it, loin is a good choice.  In bulk they're probably getting it for about a buck a pound, cooks quickly with very little weight loss. 

Loins are a little boring to me, but I'm tellin' ya, it's like camp food, best thing on the planet if you're a week into eating MREs.  And I'm certain the stuff you guys are churning out is top quality. The butts will be a great treat for everyone.

Legume

Hell yes.

Foghorn

We have a smaller less formal version going here in San Antonio. Pulling off pork shoulder for 300 meals at 6 AM to send to Victoria. Will be sending at least that much to local shelters later. 

Foghorn

Firing up another pit. 

Foghorn

500 pounds of pork loin

20stone

@Foghorn, I'm curious about your SA group. OBR is also set up in Victoria (at a much smaller scale than Houston). 

It looks like you guys are also pushing some real tonnage. BGEs are great for a lot of things, but it's hard to feed a convention center full of folks 2 butts at a time. 

Foghorn

@20stone, yeah some of the logistics are not clear to me.  The number of meals we need to provide has fluctuated from 300 to 2000 for each meal. 

This is a collection of competition BBQ teams who came together with some support from Santikos Theaters and Kiolbass Smoked Meats. 

YukonRon

You guys are rocking it. This world is a better place with y'all on it, for damn sure.

caliking

Foghorn said:

@20stone, yeah some of the logistics are not clear to me.  The number of meals we need to provide has fluctuated from 300 to 2000 for each meal. 

This is a collection of competition BBQ teams who came together with some support from Santikos Theaters and Kiolbass Smoked Meats. 

Very cool thay they were able to get organized quickly to provide meals for people on that scale. 

The_Stache

I bow my head in honor of your efforts!  You guys ROCK!!!

JohnInCarolina

Great work guys!

bgebrent

Outstanding work brothers, thank you. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

nolaegghead said:

I appreciate your volunteer efforts, especially with that broken wing

Thinking about it, loin is a good choice.  In bulk they're probably getting it for about a buck a pound, cooks quickly with very little weight loss. 

Loins are a little boring to me, but I'm tellin' ya, it's like camp food, best thing on the planet if you're a week into eating MREs.  And I'm certain the stuff you guys are churning out is top quality. The butts will be a great treat for everyone.

Exactly right. Loins are cheap, easy to cook and high yield. This is not type of bbq that you would do for friends but it's good serviceable food. I would say it's made with love but not a lot of soul . Had a few nibbles. Ive had way worse at
many bbq restaurants. 

Off to take the morning shift to pull and pack those 500 butts you saw last night. 

Foghorn

There are a dozen competition teams here, each with a different kind of pit. 

bjeans

Amazing. Thank you (plural) for your hard - and heart - work. 

20stone

Foghorn said:

@20stone, yeah some of the logistics are not clear to me.  The number of meals we need to provide has fluctuated from 300 to 2000 for each meal. 

This is a collection of competition BBQ teams who came together with some support from Santikos Theaters and Kiolbass Smoked Meats. 

That is actually how OBR got started, and then they got Jonzed, and now have 8 Old Hickory smokers that hold around 100 pork butts apiece. My kind of guys

The Cen-Tex Smoker

I lover seeing  the forum represent! 

JohnInCarolina

Just sent another $50 in to OBR.  

DMW

Sent a few pennies this morning.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Thanks guys. They are hustling for it, I promise you that. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

A few from this morning. We stepped out during the lull to have a few drinks and a few tacos then headed back for the dinner run

@20stone loading the big rig with pork loins for dinner service tonight. 





@caliking unloading a trailer of food (done!)^^^

Below- lunch rolling out. 4500 lbs of pork butt that we loaded last night. 



We are are headed back over shortly to push out dinner, then cocktails and fire up the egg at Chez Jones. 

caliking

Eggheads REPRESENT!!

caliking

You can see in that pic of @20stone slicing up a loin, that he starts out with Jonz size slices, then gets down to mere mortal sized portions.