What the hell is wrong with me?

Made it thru the fish fry with my sanity somewhat intact. But now the real insanity starts. Our church puts on a Christian rock concert with another area church every year. Two bands, starting around 5:00pm till about 9:00pm. They usually serve a buffet style dinner with burgers and dogs. This year they want to step up the food aspect, and do pulled pork sammies.

That's cool. But I'm the only one with any real BBQ experience, so I've been nominated to cook pork butts for 150-200 people, on my COS Chargriller smokin pro (one of the old church ladies offered to cook a couple in her crock pots if it would help). I can do 5, maybe six 8-9# butts at a time. I'm guessing this will take 16-20 butts to pull off.

My plan is to have it all done by the day before and pull/vacuum seal, than reheat in the bags with boiling water the day of the event, holding in roasters during service.

Any ideas for doing this better? Buying a bigger smoker is not in the plans right now, although if this comes off well, the church has talked about acquiring something to better handle this type of event.

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Lake Dogs said:

It may be time to seriously consider renting a smoker large enough to do it all that morning... Up at 4am, light fire, rub & inject butts, butts on around 5am, smoke like a banshee until about 2pm (perhaps foil along the way), foil and rest for a couple of hours, the have a huge pork pullin' party... Other than the renting part, this is how I've done it many times...

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Doesn't seem to be anywhere in the area that rents smokers. They all do grills.

Looks like I'll be doing 3 days of smokin, pullin, and vacuum sealing, than reheating the day of the event. Now I'm cooking beans too...

Gonna make the permanent baffle and tuning plate mod next week with a brisket cook to fine tune, but I need to make a new grate before then.

Got the mods done to the COS, running a little fire right now. Picked up the butts at Sam's club this morning. $1.40 a pound. Not bad.

PorkQPine said:

I suggest you get involved with your local BBQ assn. and offer to help others when they have big jobs and they will help you when you need them. We are all in this together, BBQ is a big fraternity willing to help, especially for charity events.

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Next time I will do that. Want to get involved with Operation BBQ Relief here, as well as the GLBBQA. We're also planning some events (like a classic car show) where we'll open up the food sales to some local venders and just charge a space fee.

First six butts cooking today. Been on since 7:15am...