Saturday Atlanta "Hawgin' for Haiti" Benefit Whole Hog Round 3 (Ongoing)

So this is the 3rd go round of a benefit cook a "person I know who just uses me for my shirley" puts on to raise money for kids :clap2:. Here is last years shenanigans.

Will start cooking later tonight at sometime, maybe midnight or later since the last one (around 100lbs) took 10hrs and we had it done early and just held it. I'll try to keep things up to date, but will head there after work. I dropped my smoker off already. There will be the pig, like 8 briskets and a case of boneless thighs. I'll make slaw and beans as well.





Probably nothing interesting will happen but feel free to follow along.......

Stingerhook said:

Wait to see what happens when the dinosaur comes out Pat. Cook on Jason for a good cause.

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I hate to disappoint, but to set realistic expectations my trex suit died :sad:. But the sheep should do well enough :becky:

125lbs this one

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Because I know you guys like ketchup on hot dogs. This came from the butcher shop the hog came from too

mcyork28 said:

Is that a stegosaurus in the back of the truck?

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Sometimes it's best to not ask questions.....



....... triceratops technically though.

PekingPorker said:

Once again, I have the "pleasure" of spending an entire night cooking with Jason. That poor triceratops never had a chance

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It did not

So oddly things going according to plan which isn't a good sign :clap2:.

We injected it around 6pm with 2 gallons of whatever random things we put in a blender. Last year the pig around 100lbs took 10hrs running the 275-325 range and it was done earlier than planned so instead of starting at 10pm we started at midnight.

Since I normally got to bed at 9:30 because i'm old already and "what's his face" took the first shift we did what I call a "cold start" on the hog. This means put the hog on the smoker when it isn't lit and then keep the doors open when lighting and the way we light with a torch it is burning clean in about 10-20mins. Hog had foil on the top with ice packs right until firing up. Basically loading it in with just one person isn't super easy.

Foil comes off right after lighting and we left the stuff on the face to keep from getting too dark










I got my 4hrs of sleep from 10-2 which is all I need and now will starting drinking.....coffee....and just be up the rest of the day

These pictures were right around 2:30am got 2 mavericks in there for fun and some oven therms I normally have. Pretty even left to right and that bottom left is normally the coolest










The other guy went to bed so now I'm just up randomly hiding things in his house :-D

Briskets and pig update