BBQ is started!

Ted Summey · May 25, 2013

Started the fire around 6:15 this morning. Will be cooking until around 4 p.m. Then will wrap and sauce the butts to soak for about an hour. A few minutes before we eat the chopping will commence. Chickens will go on about 3 and will slow roast until about 5. Sauce will be applied and chicken will rest about 30 minutes.

It is going to be a fat weekend with BBQ pork and chicken, potato salad, baked beans, homemade Mac and cheese. Of course no BBQ will be complete without banana pudding and strawberry shortcake! :dance1::drink:

dave1949 · May 25, 2013

Sounds yummy Ted. You have all the food groups that I like covered there. :laughing: Potato salad, homemade mac n cheese, pork, chicken ... uuummmm.

brin · May 25, 2013

Ted Summey said:
Started the fire around 6:15 this morning. Will be cooking until around 4 p.m. Then will wrap and sauce the butts to soak for about an hour. A few minutes before we eat the chopping will commence. Chickens will go on about 3 and will slow roast until about 5. Sauce will be applied and chicken will rest about 30 minutes.

It is going to be a fat weekend with BBQ pork and chicken, potato salad, baked beans, homemade Mac and cheese. Of course no BBQ will be complete without banana pudding and strawberry shortcake! :dance1::drink:

I wondered where that BBQ smell in the air was coming from this morning...Now I know...I'm right next door in GA. ..sure smells great....:licking:

Ted Summey · May 25, 2013

Y'all come there will be plenty! If you don't like BBQ the other grill can grill what you bring!

It's a party!

2LaneCruzer · May 25, 2013

Ted Summey said:
Started the fire around 6:15 this morning. Will be cooking until around 4 p.m. Then will wrap and sauce the butts to soak for about an hour. A few minutes before we eat the chopping will commence. Chickens will go on about 3 and will slow roast until about 5. Sauce will be applied and chicken will rest about 30 minutes.

It is going to be a fat weekend with BBQ pork and chicken, potato salad, baked beans, homemade Mac and cheese. Of course no BBQ will be complete without banana pudding and strawberry shortcake! :dance1::drink:

Getting ready to put a couple slabs of ribs on the BGE myself. I am intrigued by your smoker; can you explain how it works? Do you burn the wood to coals in the barrel and then put them in the smoker?

Ted Summey · May 25, 2013

2Lane, yes the barrel has a grate made of rebar about a 1/3 from the bottom with a hole cut out to access the coals and the oak and hickory is burnt in the barrel. Coals are shoveled into the end of the smoker and spread evenly under the meat. I try to run the temp about 225 degrees F. Here are some photos of the other end of the cooker - it is a double cooker - and the burn barrel. The idea is to put the pork on for the slow roasting and avoid the temptation to look at the meat every so often. When I cook butts like this they go on and cook and the lid never opens until I wrap and sauce them.

2LaneCruzer · May 25, 2013

Ted Summey said:
2Lane, yes the barrel has a grate made of rebar about a 1/3 from the bottom with a hole cut out to access the coals and the oak and hickory is burnt in the barrel. Coals are shoveled into the end of the smoker and spread evenly under the meat. I try to run the temp about 225 degrees F. Here are some photos of the other end of the cooker - it is a double cooker - and the burn barrel. The idea is to put the pork on for the slow roasting and avoid the temptation to look at the meat every so often. When I cook butts like this they go on and cook and the lid never opens until I wrap and sauce them.

Wow! Quite a rig.

Western · May 25, 2013

Ted, looks awesome!! You know if you would have given us a few days warning? day and half drive from Texas:laughing: Wont be anyone hungry around your place this evening:thumbsup:

creekbend · May 25, 2013

You definitely have the right "Fixins". That's a nice grill.

farmgirl19 · May 25, 2013

I'm with Western, a couple of days notice and we could have all piled in a rig for a road trip your way. I'd be happy to bring the cold beer! :thumbsup:

Ted Summey · May 25, 2013

Well next time I'll be sure to put a shout out a couple of days earlier (with permission from the big farm boss) and extra portion of pig on the cooker!

The more the merrier! Creekbend, you aren't so far away! Just a straight shot on 158 to Stokesdale, a quick trip to Walnut Cove and you will be in shouting distance!

Western · May 25, 2013

farmgirl19 said:
I'm with Western, a couple of days notice and we could have all piled in a rig for a road trip your way. I'd be happy to bring the cold beer! :thumbsup:

If we did, we best get the beer close to Teds house, we could end up in Florida

Ted Summey · May 25, 2013

We do have places to get beer close, although seems like I've gone out for beer and wound up in Florida a couple of times:drink:

Lou66 · May 25, 2013

The only thing better than a bbq,, is someone else is having it and you are invited.. nice looking pit.. Lou

farmgirl19 · May 25, 2013

Western said:
If we did, we best get the beer close to Teds house, we could end up in Florida

I'll bet it would be a fun road trip anyway! :laughing:

Western · May 25, 2013

farmgirl19 said:
I'll bet it would be a fun road trip anyway! :laughing:

Darn right, I was born in Orlando and aint been back except as a little runt taken to Disney!
I'm old enough now to be a pain on the beach too:laughing:

farmgirl19 · May 25, 2013

Western said:
Darn right, I was born in Orlando and aint been back except as a little runt taken to Disney!
I'm old enough now to be a pain on the beach too:laughing:

I hit several beaches in Florida, when I was in college. Haven't been there since, so might be a good reason for a "road trip"! I'd have to just be a pain on the beach now too, as I am much too old to be the college "lookers".