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Cooking For a Group
DeShawn:
On Tuesday evening, I'm going to be cooking desserts for 35-ish people, and then on Wednesday morning, I'm going to be cooking breakfast for the same group. I'm not worried about having enough pots to cook in... I'll be take two twelve-inch ovens, a twelve-inch deep oven, and a fourteen-inch oven.
What I'm more worried about is getting enough charcoal going and keeping all of the ovens going at once. I love Eggman's propane charcoal lighter, but I don't see myself getting one in the near future since I just bout a new vehicle and that blows the budget for a good long time.
How do you go about lighting more than a chimney or two full of charcoal at a time? How do you budget time when you are cooking for a larger group?
IdBlackPotPat:
--- Quote from: DeShawn on July 03, 2011, 06:37:38 am ---On Tuesday evening, I'm going to be cooking desserts for 35-ish people, and then on Wednesday morning, I'm going to be cooking breakfast for the same group. I'm not worried about having enough pots to cook in... I'll be take two twelve-inch ovens, a twelve-inch deep oven, and a fourteen-inch oven.
What I'm more worried about is getting enough charcoal going and keeping all of the ovens going at once. I love Eggman's propane charcoal lighter, but I don't see myself getting one in the near future since I just bout a new vehicle and that blows the budget for a good long time.
How do you go about lighting more than a chimney or two full of charcoal at a time? How do you budget time when you are cooking for a larger group?
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A couple of chimneys with a couple of propane stove burners will fire up a lot of coals quick. For a really big group, I like the weed burner method - no that is quick and easy.
What are you cooking up? What ever it is, I'm sure they will appreciate you even more after the meal.
DeShawn:
Desserts: I'm making a large peach-blueberry cobbler, a Mississippi Mud Cake, and a Fudge Cake.
Breakfast: I'm making a whole lot of Mountain Man Breakfast
What's the weed burner method?
IdBlackPotPat:
--- Quote ---What's the weed burner method?
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Its the quickest method I know of for starting coals. Set what coals you need in a fireproof container - anything metal will do - and take a weed burner to them. You can start as many (dump a 20lb bag in an old burn barrel) or few (5-10 briquettes in your chimney)at a time as you need. Takes only a couple of minutes to start them up. Weed burners start out at about $25 or $30. You simply hook it up to a propane tank and light it.
Darren:
DeShawn, I hope that the propane stove works well enough for you! You should have borrowed my chimney as well, except then I wouldn't have been able to use it yesterday to light some coals for a good old fashioned burger/hotdog grill...
I haven't tested it yet, but it's not too technologically advanced - I would expect it to work rather well.
-Darren
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