RELOAD ON THE FLY - How many is TOO much?

MaskedMarvel · February 17

Greetings friends,

I cook a ton of pulled pork. Got it dialed in pretty well. Part of my system for getting 200 lbs cooked weight in a week is loading lump and wood on TOP of already hot cooked down coals.

Stir the coals lightly to even and close gaps
Thin layer of fresh lump (rockwood of course)
a few chunks of apple and hickory (pork cook)
Add another thin layer of fresh lump
Three chunks of hickory
Top off to the top of the ring
Wait for temp to stabilize, reload with pork

i might do this four (4!) times or more before shutting down and doing a full blown reset. Kick ash bucket and basket is essential for success in general, but especially with this method.

8-D

alaskanassasin · February 17

How are you shredding all that pork have you found a easy way?

johnmitchell · February 17

Walker Ave must smell like hog heaven 🐷🐽

MasterC · February 17

Works beautifully

alaskanassasin · February 17

What are you running that in @MasterC ? Like a plastic mixing bowl?

alaskanassasin · February 17

I have these plastic claw things that work ok by they don’t fit my hands and are rather tedious.

MasterC · February 17

alaskanassasin said:

What are you running that in @MasterC ? Like a plastic mixing bowl?

5 gallon steel stock pot

RRP · February 18

If nobody else will ask then I will...You must have a side hustle that you need 200 pounds cooked weight in a week's time - so do you mind telling us what that hustle is...or am I the only one here who doesn't know?

MaskedMarvel · February 18

alaskanassasin said:

How are you shredding all that pork have you found a easy way?

The ONLY way.

I think I donated my other set of claws to a friend

Plastic, not metal: doesn’t damage pans..

Claws are solid, not hollow/braced: easy to clean…

My shred is pretty rough - not fine. I like that drill attachment up there. They take like three seconds to accomplish the same thing. But i lose the control.

alaskanassasin · February 18

That is what I currently use @MaskedMarvel. I am going to try the @MasterC method though, anytime I can incorporate power tools into my chores it is usually a win.

MaskedMarvel · February 18

RRP said:

If nobody else will ask then I will...You must have a side hustle that you need 200 pounds cooked weight in a week's time - so do you mind telling us what that hustle is...or am I the only one here who doesn't know?

I sell pulled pork by the pound, in deep frozen vac packs, with homemade sauce.

I started by giving it away - hot and by the pound, then it was whole butts (stopped weighing and trying to predict cook vs raw weight etc). I donated all through covid for families that had trouble leaving home or finding meat. that was fun - I did whole dinners: a box of pork, slaw, chips, buns, sauce, sodas, and extra stuff like homemade hand sanitizer. … Then switched to donations. And evolved to where I am now. I have done light catering drop offs with jugs of sweet tea and lemonade as well.

I do about 3-4 big cooks a year. Announcing via text message to former customers, and I usually post something on my Facebook. People were freezing it after getting it anyway - I took that step and made it easier on us both. Great success!

The theme for the past few cooks has been “LOLLAPORKLOOZA,” and this is the sixth official pork cook festival lol

Lesse if I can find some old cook pics for ya my friend:
(Delivered out of any particular order, of course)

s,

RRP · February 18

You're a good GREAT guy @MaskedMarvel!

MaskedMarvel · February 18

RRP said:

You're a good GREAT guy @MaskedMarvel!

Thanks man! We all did what we could and can, and I don’t really like talking about it. I hope you and your family came out on the other side as best as we all could.

I WILL SAY!

I’m in the market for an XXL egg. It actually makes sense. Running one egg versus three for the same product. … sounds like a dream…

alaskanassasin · February 19

Didn’t you win a pellet smoker? Are the butts that much better on the egg?

bluebird66 · February 19

That's awesome!

MaskedMarvel · February 21

alaskanassasin said:

Didn’t you win a pellet smoker? Are the butts that much better on the egg?

I won a Yoder 640S. It’s incredible.

Butt on the pellet is a totally different deal.

BGE holds temp evenly, I can get three on a rack, four on the dual rack. Charcoal is cheap when you manage your fire. FB500 really helped with long cooks. Flavor and bark is definitely the best.

Pellet is EASY. Like an oven easy. There are definitely hot spots. I can get maybe eight butts in there comfortably. Pellets are cheap from Costco, but require a smoking tube to really impart flavor. Yoder uses FireBoard. It’s incredible, but the pellet is extremely inefficient. Solid heavy steel moves a lot of therms. You’re refilling pellets on low and slow. Flavor and bark with the tube isn’t bad, honestly. Just not up to the BGE level. I sometimes use it as a warming oven if I’m doing many butts at once and some are finishing early.

We use the pellet more for flame grilling than anything, though anything you can put in an oven works in there and we’ve used it a lot. It came with the grill-grates so it does that extremely well.

Love them both. Definitely recommend the Yoder over the other pellet competition. There are a few things it’s missing, but the execution and construction is tops.

DoubleEgger · February 21

Hope the married life is treating you well my friend.

alaskanassasin · February 21

Thanks for taking the time for an honest write- up/review of the Yoder @MaskedMarvel

MaskedMarvel · February 21

DoubleEgger said:

Hope the married life is treating you well my friend.

We’re rockin’! Thank you my friend!

:)

MaskedMarvel · February 21

alaskanassasin said:

Thanks for taking the time for an honest write- up/review of the Yoder @MaskedMarvel

There IS stuff my Yoder does that isn’t really feasible on a Large BGE. For example - we make Mac and cheese all the time now, by request. So much that we bring it to sick relatives for their fridge and freezer with fair regularity, super bowl parties, etc.

can’t get those pans all in one egg at once. Gotta use the pellet grill:

The thing is a MONSTER for ribs done right as well.

RELOAD ON THE FLY - How many is TOO much?

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