Your One Memorable Cook For 2021

TrippleRipple

My best/favorite/proudest cook happened under horribly sad circumstances. My BIL lost his father to a motor vehicle accident. Due to Covid and his mother recovering from cancer treatment (I said horribly sad) the funeral was postponed from May until August.

Anyone reading this knows that a pork butt for pulled pork is nearly impossible to fail on an egg. My BIL thinks I'm Aaron Franklin because my pulled pork is always great. So....

Two weeks before the funeral I was asked to make pulled pork. Six butts. Fifty-four pounds total. I said I would be honored. I don't have photos, but I cooked three on my LBGE and three on my PBC. The PBC died out at eight hours with the butts at 185, so I piled all six on the egg. They were pulled at 203-205 and were perfect. People I didn't know thanked me for 'catering' and raved about the pork.

I've done lots of fancy & cool/expensive cooks in the past, but that one will be hard to beat. Six butts for my BIL, one of my best pals, to mourn his Dad.

lkapigian

TrippleRipple said:

My best/favorite/proudest cook happened under horribly sad circumstances. My BIL lost his father to a motor vehicle accident. Due to Covid and his mother recovering from cancer treatment (I said horribly sad) the funeral was postponed from May until August.

Anyone reading this knows that a pork butt for pulled pork is nearly impossible to fail on an egg. My BIL thinks I'm Aaron Franklin because my pulled pork is always great. So....

Two weeks before the funeral I was asked to make pulled pork. Six butts. Fifty-four pounds total. I said I would be honored. I don't have photos, but I cooked three on my LBGE and three on my PBC. The PBC died out at eight hours with the butts at 185, so I piled all six on the egg. They were pulled at 203-205 and were perfect. People I didn't know thanked me for 'catering' and raved about the pork.

I've done lots of fancy & cool/expensive cooks in the past, but that one will be hard to beat. Six butts for my BIL, one of my best pals, to mourn his Dad.

Thanks for sharing 

RyanStl

TrippleRipple said:

My best/favorite/proudest cook happened under horribly sad circumstances. My BIL lost his father to a motor vehicle accident. Due to Covid and his mother recovering from cancer treatment (I said horribly sad) the funeral was postponed from May until August.

Anyone reading this knows that a pork butt for pulled pork is nearly impossible to fail on an egg. My BIL thinks I'm Aaron Franklin because my pulled pork is always great. So....

Two weeks before the funeral I was asked to make pulled pork. Six butts. Fifty-four pounds total. I said I would be honored. I don't have photos, but I cooked three on my LBGE and three on my PBC. The PBC died out at eight hours with the butts at 185, so I piled all six on the egg. They were pulled at 203-205 and were perfect. People I didn't know thanked me for 'catering' and raved about the pork.

I've done lots of fancy & cool/expensive cooks in the past, but that one will be hard to beat. Six butts for my BIL, one of my best pals, to mourn his Dad.

That's awesome. Sounds like my first and last cook for a large group. I did 3 pork butts on my old UGS for my sister's wedding. Too bad she's a vegetarian.

TechsasJim

Memorable in a bad way...    I tried to recreate Jess Pryle's version of smoked Scottish Eggs.    Soft boiled the eggs to perfection (did one more than needed to make sure they were proper), was uber careful to wrap them in seasoned hamburger meat.    Followed the instructions to the T.

Hyped it to my family and they were really looking forward to it but the soft boiled eggs ended up being fully hard boiled by the time the cook was over.    Essentially ended up with smoked hamburger meat with a hardboiled egg inside.   

Wasn't terrible but definitely was not as planned.

stv8r

sheetmetalpete said:

wow this is for the win!!!

northGAcock

caliking

northGAcock said:

Holy shite. Recipe, please!

SonVolt

This grilled cheese I cooked on the new Bluestar range after waiting 7 months on it to arrive, then an additional 2 months on another one b/c delivery dropped it down my steps, then 3 more months waiting on HVAC to show up to run the required duct work for ventilation.  It was the greatest grilled cheese of my life. 

Thanks @lkapigian for the help & hardware. 

FrostyEgg

northGAcock said:

Holy mother of god...recipe please.