ronbeaux50
Head Chef
This cook was for a benefit for my secretary who has cancer.
It all started great. 35 full packer briskets and 35 pork butts and 100lbs of sausage. Had 4 large pits going and a sweat setup.
Got all the pits up to temps and loaded up. Everything looking perfect, just perfect.
THEN all helll broke loose!!!!!!!!!!
A storm blew through and we thought it was pretty cool standing in the carport watching it until the "It sounded like a freight train!!!" We literaly ran for our life as trees were snapping and stuff was flying!!!
12 trees went down, one of which took out my truck. I watched it fall and smash the back of my truck!!! While I was running for cover!!
When it wen through we just stood there shocked. And then we went to plan B. All of the meat had been on for 3 hours with full smoke and since power was out we elected to wrap everything and load it into the stick burners. The rotor pits were useless without power. we trudged in the rain for an hour getting everything wrapped and loaded.
My truck is smashed!
BUT, we got all of the meat cooked and packed away so we can serve tomorrow.
I'm sure this is not the kind of update you guys wanted to see. I sure as helll didn't want it to turn out like this, but we made it happen. Apparently this storm tore up a lot of stuff in the area and I kept expecting to see a news crew show up. My buddy has a whole lot of work to get things back to normal and I'm sure I will pitch in.
Tomorrow we serve the plates. All 950 of them!!!!! We had to call off the sales because we were just plain out of room. All the meat is safely tucked away in hot boxes and it won't be the best of q but it will have to do given the circumstances.
It all started great. 35 full packer briskets and 35 pork butts and 100lbs of sausage. Had 4 large pits going and a sweat setup.
Got all the pits up to temps and loaded up. Everything looking perfect, just perfect.
THEN all helll broke loose!!!!!!!!!!
A storm blew through and we thought it was pretty cool standing in the carport watching it until the "It sounded like a freight train!!!" We literaly ran for our life as trees were snapping and stuff was flying!!!
12 trees went down, one of which took out my truck. I watched it fall and smash the back of my truck!!! While I was running for cover!!
When it wen through we just stood there shocked. And then we went to plan B. All of the meat had been on for 3 hours with full smoke and since power was out we elected to wrap everything and load it into the stick burners. The rotor pits were useless without power. we trudged in the rain for an hour getting everything wrapped and loaded.
My truck is smashed!
BUT, we got all of the meat cooked and packed away so we can serve tomorrow.
I'm sure this is not the kind of update you guys wanted to see. I sure as helll didn't want it to turn out like this, but we made it happen. Apparently this storm tore up a lot of stuff in the area and I kept expecting to see a news crew show up. My buddy has a whole lot of work to get things back to normal and I'm sure I will pitch in.
Tomorrow we serve the plates. All 950 of them!!!!! We had to call off the sales because we were just plain out of room. All the meat is safely tucked away in hot boxes and it won't be the best of q but it will have to do given the circumstances.