- Aug 27, 2008
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This is my first chance to show the local field and office employees just what I can do with a smoker.
A little history behind my excitement:
About 8 years ago, I was the safety coordinator for our area (part-time as needed, along with my regular duties). I was responsible for incident reporting/investigations, etc., and I did the monthly safety meeting/employee training gig and I would do my best to put on a grilling session as it was all I had time for (top sirloins, fajitas. etc).
Last Thursday our Lead Mechanic informed me that we would be having a safety meeting on the 6th @ 4:00 PM. He said the District Manager was having trouble getting a deal going with the new motel's steak-house for a meeting dinner. He told me to give the manager a call if I wanted to do a Bbq (they'd buy the groceries, I'd get the leftovers).
So, I callled the man and explained our idea. He went nuts (in a good way)! He said that would be MUCH better than Subway sandwiches. I wrote up a list of items needed and handed it to the mechanic who was more than happy to take care of me. He's had some of my Bbq already, so maybe there was something behind his mention of me doing the meeting meal? Naw, really?
All I will put into it is a few hours of my time, less than a gallon of propane, some smoke wood, and about $0.75 worth of rub ingredients, and a couple foil steam pans which I'm going to not use much any more after my next Bbq equipment order comes in about 10 days.
The mechanic picked up the goods lastnight, brought them to work today, and I picked it up at 6:55 am. At 7:30 the Butt was smokin'! The Brisket was trimmed, seperated and joined the Butt 20 minutes later.
This is by no means a massive amount of food, as there will only be 15-18 attending the meeting. I'm sure we're all gonna enjoy it much more than the Bbq PP & PB we had last fall at the local (now out of business/closed) Bbq joint. That stuff was terrible...I wouldn't serve that to my dogs.
It's gonna be a GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!! I've been having fun since I started this gig last week...it'll only get better!!!!!!!!!
I didn't get pics of the butt after unpacking/rubbing...but we've all seen our share of nice butts by now, right? Heh-heh-heh
I'll take a vote from the family and see what they want for dinner tonight...I was thinking a couple of slabs of spares I have in the freezer would do just fine (quick thaw in cryovac package).
So, here we go!
The goods:
7.52 lb Butt & 10.91 lb Packer:
Trimmed out, seperated and rubbed:
And we all know what this means...musical fruit:
Getting happy with Hickory @ 225~235*:
I'll keep the progress coming with more later.
I have 3 full tanks of propane, plenty of smoke wood and nuthin' but time! LOL!!!!!!
Thanks All!
Eric
A little history behind my excitement:
About 8 years ago, I was the safety coordinator for our area (part-time as needed, along with my regular duties). I was responsible for incident reporting/investigations, etc., and I did the monthly safety meeting/employee training gig and I would do my best to put on a grilling session as it was all I had time for (top sirloins, fajitas. etc).
Last Thursday our Lead Mechanic informed me that we would be having a safety meeting on the 6th @ 4:00 PM. He said the District Manager was having trouble getting a deal going with the new motel's steak-house for a meeting dinner. He told me to give the manager a call if I wanted to do a Bbq (they'd buy the groceries, I'd get the leftovers).
So, I callled the man and explained our idea. He went nuts (in a good way)! He said that would be MUCH better than Subway sandwiches. I wrote up a list of items needed and handed it to the mechanic who was more than happy to take care of me. He's had some of my Bbq already, so maybe there was something behind his mention of me doing the meeting meal? Naw, really?
All I will put into it is a few hours of my time, less than a gallon of propane, some smoke wood, and about $0.75 worth of rub ingredients, and a couple foil steam pans which I'm going to not use much any more after my next Bbq equipment order comes in about 10 days.
The mechanic picked up the goods lastnight, brought them to work today, and I picked it up at 6:55 am. At 7:30 the Butt was smokin'! The Brisket was trimmed, seperated and joined the Butt 20 minutes later.
This is by no means a massive amount of food, as there will only be 15-18 attending the meeting. I'm sure we're all gonna enjoy it much more than the Bbq PP & PB we had last fall at the local (now out of business/closed) Bbq joint. That stuff was terrible...I wouldn't serve that to my dogs.
It's gonna be a GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!! I've been having fun since I started this gig last week...it'll only get better!!!!!!!!!
I didn't get pics of the butt after unpacking/rubbing...but we've all seen our share of nice butts by now, right? Heh-heh-heh
I'll take a vote from the family and see what they want for dinner tonight...I was thinking a couple of slabs of spares I have in the freezer would do just fine (quick thaw in cryovac package).
So, here we go!
The goods:
7.52 lb Butt & 10.91 lb Packer:
Trimmed out, seperated and rubbed:
And we all know what this means...musical fruit:
Getting happy with Hickory @ 225~235*:
I'll keep the progress coming with more later.
I have 3 full tanks of propane, plenty of smoke wood and nuthin' but time! LOL!!!!!!
Thanks All!
Eric