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Start Of A Small Cook

CTMike
CTMike Posts: 3,764
edited June 24 in EggHead Forum
My MIL passed away in January, and we are doing a Celebration of Life Saturday up in NH. Borrowed a friends Shirley and just 8 butts in to the smoke bath. I'm also doing 6 chuckies to make PSB for those that don't eat pork. 


I think some of these porkers must've been on growth hormones as I had a couple 10 & 12 lb butts (average is typically 8 in my experience). Feeding around 100 adults plus kids. 
MMBGE / Large BGE / XL BGE (Craigslist Find) / SF30x80 cabinet trailer - "Ol' Mortimer" / Outdoor kitchen in progress.  

RECOVERING BUBBLEHEAD
Southeastern CT. 
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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 11,617
    Sorry for your loss, Solid Cook , lately butts I have been getting are in the 10-12 pund range especially if you are not buying comoddity pork 
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • CTMike
    CTMike Posts: 3,764
    lkapigian said:
    Sorry for your loss, Solid Cook , lately butts I have been getting are in the 10-12 pund range especially if you are not buying comoddity pork 
    Thanks. Hopefully that competition box is holding up well. 
    MMBGE / Large BGE / XL BGE (Craigslist Find) / SF30x80 cabinet trailer - "Ol' Mortimer" / Outdoor kitchen in progress.  

    RECOVERING BUBBLEHEAD
    Southeastern CT. 
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  • CTMike
    CTMike Posts: 3,764
    edited June 24
    After getting some color on the chuckies I added some red, orange, and jalapeño peppers, along with 4 cans of Guinness to each pan. I'll let them braise and let the jus thicken up quite a bit before covering the pan with foil till the finish. 

    MMBGE / Large BGE / XL BGE (Craigslist Find) / SF30x80 cabinet trailer - "Ol' Mortimer" / Outdoor kitchen in progress.  

    RECOVERING BUBBLEHEAD
    Southeastern CT. 
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 12,192
    Beautiful cook, Mike. And ambitious to serve that many. Well beyond my experience. Love the assortment of colour in that shot of the chuckies. I have no doubts that all will eat well. “Sufficiently suffonsified”, as my late, maternal grandmother would say. 
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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 37,745
    Way to bring closure to the family.

    And what a great cook rounding into form right there.  Very nice.  
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • CTMike
    CTMike Posts: 3,764
    GrateEggspectations said:
    Beautiful cook, Mike. And ambitious to serve that many. Well beyond my experience. Love the assortment of colour in that shot of the chuckies. I have no doubts that all will eat well. “Sufficiently suffonsified”, as my late, maternal grandmother would say. 
    The most I have served was 1,500 folks at the nuke plant I worked at. I had an army of assistants to help, I used this Shirley and mine (since sold it since the wife's asthma caused me to close down the catering business). 

    That's why I said this was a small cook. 
    MMBGE / Large BGE / XL BGE (Craigslist Find) / SF30x80 cabinet trailer - "Ol' Mortimer" / Outdoor kitchen in progress.  

    RECOVERING BUBBLEHEAD
    Southeastern CT. 
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