After boiling crawfish for Good Friday at my Father-in-laws house, I headed to the mother-in-laws for a somewhat crazy or brave (being a newbie) smoke.
My mother-in-law invited 30 of her family member and after a few beers I agreed to smoke for them. So this was my plan, 1 - 7.5 lb butt, 5 racks of spare ribs, 5 lbs of sausage and 5 lbs of hamburgers. They were going to take care of all the other fixins.
After a good rub down,
I started smoking the butt around 7:00 pm Saturday night using a combo of hickory and apple and drank beer and applied smoke
until around 1:00 am then went to bed. I checked the IT at 3:30 and it was @ 160. Going great so far
. Back to bed 5:15 would come quick. The ribs go in @ 5:45 and the butt gets foiled IT @ 162. Now smoke the ribs with just apple for 3 hours and then foil them.
After 2 hours I pulled the foil from the ribs and the butt IT is now @ 190. I was getting concerned if they would all be ready at the same time.
After removing the foil I applied my spicy BBQ sauce and back into the smoker for the final hour.
I get caught up in the kitchen trying to help and I missed my 11:45 by 15 minutes, the butt IT is at 202, so I pull out the ribs and foil them and them pull out the butt and put it and the ribs in the ice chest to sit until we ready to eat @ 1:00.
OK so I pull the butt around 1:00 and it completely fell apart but was not mussy. The ribs had a great smoke flavor were tender but not fall of the bone. I guess it was good because by the end of lunch we had about a slab of ribs and about a 1/2 butt left. I used a modified version of Jeff's rub and BBQ sauce and had 2 other I made. I ended up severing a sweet, sweet and spicy and a spicy bbq sauce.
I really need to thank all of you for all the help because without you I could not have pulled it off.
Now my mother-in-law is already planning a 4th of July party for around 50 people.
My mother-in-law invited 30 of her family member and after a few beers I agreed to smoke for them. So this was my plan, 1 - 7.5 lb butt, 5 racks of spare ribs, 5 lbs of sausage and 5 lbs of hamburgers. They were going to take care of all the other fixins.
After a good rub down,
I started smoking the butt around 7:00 pm Saturday night using a combo of hickory and apple and drank beer and applied smoke
until around 1:00 am then went to bed. I checked the IT at 3:30 and it was @ 160. Going great so far
After 2 hours I pulled the foil from the ribs and the butt IT is now @ 190. I was getting concerned if they would all be ready at the same time.
After removing the foil I applied my spicy BBQ sauce and back into the smoker for the final hour.
I get caught up in the kitchen trying to help and I missed my 11:45 by 15 minutes, the butt IT is at 202, so I pull out the ribs and foil them and them pull out the butt and put it and the ribs in the ice chest to sit until we ready to eat @ 1:00.
OK so I pull the butt around 1:00 and it completely fell apart but was not mussy. The ribs had a great smoke flavor were tender but not fall of the bone. I guess it was good because by the end of lunch we had about a slab of ribs and about a 1/2 butt left. I used a modified version of Jeff's rub and BBQ sauce and had 2 other I made. I ended up severing a sweet, sweet and spicy and a spicy bbq sauce.
I really need to thank all of you for all the help because without you I could not have pulled it off.
Now my mother-in-law is already planning a 4th of July party for around 50 people.