How much Boston Butt to feed 100 people? Is this do-a-ble on an XL?

Unknown

My brother loves the pulled pork I make on the XL(of course). His son is graduating and he wants to know if I can cook enough pork to feed 100 people in one cook. I have the XL but was wondering how much pork I would need and if this is even possible in the XL. Any advice please.

AZRP

NorthWoodsEgger,
I think you would need about 7 butts at 8-9 lbs each. Don't know if that would fit in an xl. -RP

BajaTom

NorthWoodsEgger,
Make your life easy, cook the pulled pork ahead of time and reheat the day of the party. PP reheats very nicely and most people won't know the difference. Good luck, Tom

Celtic Wolf

NorthWoodsEgger,[p] Plan on a 1/4 ro 1/3 pound per person cooked. Using the formula your looking at a total cooked weight of 25 to 35 pounds. You can expect about 30-40% shrinkage. So you looking at probably 40-50 pounds of uncooked pork. AZRP recommeneded seven 8 to 9 pound butts. That is a good number.

You won't be able to cook them all at the same time. So cook them ahead of time. Pull them, sauce them and put the pork in zip lock or vacuum bags. The day of the party either boil the the vacuum bag to heat up the meat or nuke'em for a bit. Be careful trying to boil a zip lock bag.

Unknown

<p />NorthWoodsEgger,[p]Check out the catering worksheet on the azbbqa site:

[ul][li]KCMIKE's Catering Worksheet[/ul]

AZRP

Hi Glenn,
That is one cool spreadsheet. -RP

The Pork Jesters

NorthWoodsEgger,[p]100 people x 1/3 pounds per person for a sandwich = 33 pounds of cooked pork. If you have a 50% reduction you will need to start with at least 66 pounds raw or about 9 butts. [p]Odis