Bruce B said:
Has he grown tired of those two WSM's already?
Not yet Bruce. I'll keep this short since I'm 'not supposed to know about this', but Amy asked me personal question the other day."for my birthday, would I prefer her to fly in my sister and nephews or get me something big'. Of course it was a no-brainer. Get me something big. My sister didn't fly me in to see her 40th. I think this came up because Roanke had a big BBQ recently and we couldn't attend due to us moving from Fairfax to Clifton and I mentioned something along the lines of 'how many ribs you think 10,000 people can eat and how many do you think we could make on our WSMs'.
You have to understand something: We did a chili cookoff there in April and there were about 10,000 people. We gave out 1000 chili samples (13 gallons of chili) and cooked three competition chili pots all by ourselves. The Harley owners and some retirement community were the only ones giving out more chili samples and each of their teams had at least 15 people in their booths. It was totally insane. I was probably joking, but Amy took me literal. Kinda like me wanting a chainsaw for firewood. You think I settled for a Poulon Pro or Craftsman? Nope. I researched between Stihl and Husqvarna and went with the Husqvarna 353.
I'm guessing that we will need to think about what we really want or need since I still don't know enough to cook competition and I haven't catered anything yet (nor really know how to make any decent sides). I'm thinking if I rolled up one day at work with a huge offset and served some ribs up for lunch at our company meeting, that I'd either get a promotion or get fired. I do have a standing invite to bring in any bbq since what y'all taught me has tasted pretty good so far.
We were kinda thinking of doing some carnival type events where you have to be able to cook a lot of stuff and obviously the WSMs can't do that. So, I'd probably post something later for anyone having advice on getting into different events. Me with ribs and roasted corn on the cob and Amy on funnel cakes and hot dogs. What we don't sell, we'll eat
OK. not so short, but hope you have a better picture now.